How often we see a mentally challenged child or one born with other disabilities and wonder how God could be so cruel, isn’t it? At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning disabled children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be…


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.