This happened last year when the lockdown was first imposed. Everybody stayed at home, and many lost their jobs. But one day I had to drive to the electricity department because of a lost bill, and this was when it happened. It’s something that even now makes me feel terrible…


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.