Over the years, I’ve felt rather smug about my eyesight. Never needed glasses for anything except reading. While friends began peering over bifocals, I’d flash my eyes proudly and hit a four in local cricket matches. So, there I was, strolling down the genteel streets of Manhattan’s Upper East Side,…


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.