The couple stood outside their church as the Sunday mass was celebrated inside. They smiled and frowned, then smiled and frowned again, as they looked at their respective phones. They messaged back, sent pictures, then stared at each other, looked away. They did not see the lone man standing just…


Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.