Very often during funerals, I hear speaker after speaker giving lengthy eulogies about the boldness or courage of the man or woman who is to be buried or cremated. As I listen to them speak, and knowing how that dead person stood very often alone in adversity, I wonder why…


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.