“You can’t let your failures define you… you have to let your failures teach you,” said Barack Obama. Now let us pause at that word define, because it is not an innocent word. It is a branding exercise. It is you picking up a branding iron, dipping it in…


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.