This was a piece I wrote while in college, after being pickpocketed and losing the princely sum of ten rupees. I sold this article for fifteen later and remember making a profit out of a catastrophe: ‘Pickpocket!’ shouted the crowd at the other end of the station platform. I watched…


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.