It was the cutest bear that ambled past that afternoon, in the same place where I always sat with my morning coffee at my daughter’s holiday home in the Poconos mountains. She screamed while I simply watched. “What are you frightened of?” I asked. “It looks so cuddly.” Fortunately, the…


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.