Around twelve years ago, we, imitating Anna Hazare, wore boat shaped hats upside down, waved the Indian tri-colour, organized candlelight vigils, sat outside the houses of MPs and ministers, screamed our lungs out with slogans against corruption, and felt good as a government relented and decided to introduce a bill against…


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.