“Who are you voting for?” he asked me with great seriousness, as though the future of the nation rested delicately between his teacup and my answer. “I was thinking,” I said, “of voting for whoever will stop the unnecessary concretising down my road.” He looked at me with pity. Not…


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.