A very close friend messaged me yesterday after reading my column. “Bob,” he said, “your solutions to problems sound like impossible dreams. You paint pictures of a world that can never exist.” Then, in good natured humour, he compared me to the famous dreamer, Don Quixote. Most of us remember…


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.