I heard that after the resounding victory in Bangalore, the winner politicians were going to be shepherded into a hotel, so that they would not cross sides! This after the people had put their faith in them? And that’s why I fished out today’s column, an old one, but apt…


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.