It was old Mr. Vikram’s birthday and he was missing. Ria, his daughter searched their modest apartment, and even glanced down at the compound where the housing society members often gathered. But he was nowhere to be found. Then she remembered. Of course. The cemetery down the road. She walked…


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.