She had got up twice during the night I heard later, hoping to catch the tooth fairy at work. The next morning the two little teeth still lay under her pillow. The fairy had forgotten to deposit the promised silver coin. ‘Daddy,’ she said as she got out of bed…
Tooth Fairy..!
The Tooth Fairy..!
As my younger one celebrates her birthday today, I’m going to reproduce an article of mine on her that was published many years back in the Indian Express: She had got up twice during the night I heard later, hoping to catch the tooth fairy at work. The next morning…


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.