“Phone a friend,” suggests Amitabh Bhachchan to the floundering person sitting opposite him in ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ and so often that friend is the desperately needed lifeline. In joy or in sorrow, we need the company of friends. Yes sometimes for a while we need to be alone, but 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.