Salt was a bone of contention in the early years of marriage as my wife, a doctor, who had warned me her hands were not made for cooking, managed to also keep the same hands very often from adding that extra bit of salt I sorely cherished. We adjusted, me,…


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.