Shackled, bound and fettered, heads bowed, they stumbled out of the American military aircraft. Our brothers, our sisters, our children, thrown back, in an undignified manner, by a President and a people who considered them unworthy of their land. The majority from Gujarat, the prime minister’s home state, the others…


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.