The lock hangs heavily on her door! It hangs hushed and still, and yet as I look at it, it’s deathly silence screams accusingly, “She’s gone!” I had not wished her goodbye when I’d left for America. I’d meant to, but whenever I passed her home and peeped in, I…


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.