The newspaper landed at my door with a thud. I thought something serious had happened to the government. It was just a heavy paper filled with ads. “Look at this phone,” I told my wife. “The advertisement says it can take a picture of the moon.” She looked up from…


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.