Two trees stand outside my window. One is a peepul tree. The other, according to my gardener, is a junglee neem. This summer has been brutal. The sun has been behaving as if it has been personally offended by all forms of vegetation. The two trees suffered terribly. The peepul…


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.