“Mr. Singh, our housing society secretary is coming to visit us now,” said the wife, putting down the phone. “Why?” I asked, “have we been using too much water? Have our kids broken any windows? Did our dog bite his maid?” “This is not an official visit,” said my wife…


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.