This was a few years ago at a family outing: In front of me were mountains with clouds resting on them, I looked at their sides gently tapering down to the valley below where the Krishna river flowed unconcerned and unperturbed by the grandeur above. From where I sat in…


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.