Yesterday, a website asked me to prove I was human. I thought of sending it my electricity bill, a photograph of my stomach, and a recording of me arguing with an automated helpline. Surely no other species would put up with so much nonsense. But the website wanted me to…


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.