Have just seen the Falkirk Wheel today while driving through Scotland. The Falkirk Wheel opened in 2002 replaced a flight of 11 locks that once allowed boats from the Union Canal down to the level of the Forth & Clyde, more than 100 feet below. Once weary travellers had a…


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.