“Wherever you go, I will go!” says Ruth, even as her mother-in-law, with both her sons dead and no money in her name, poverty staring at her, decides to return to the land of her birth. Naomi frees her, tells her to remain in her own comfortable land, tells her…


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.