As a little boy, I used to wonder about some tall stone platforms that looked like ancient Druid structures just next to a railway crossing we had to pass, and had asked my dad what they were. “They are platforms built years ago for villagers coming into the city 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.