A friend once cornered me after a meeting with great determination in his eyes. “Bobby,” he said, “I have a very important message for you.” I looked at my watch. He spoke for twenty minutes. By the end of it I had forgotten what the beginning was, lost track of…


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.