My young neighbour Kumar whose wife was expecting a baby, rode in the lift with me to the car park below, “How’s the wife?” I asked pleasantly. “Very excited!” said Kumar mournfully. “But you don’t seem to be? Something worrying you?” I asked, “I know the name of a very…


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.