He was the former president of a local rotary club, and I wondered at his sad face, “What happened?” I asked, concerned. “I got a call from the incoming president, he told me not to come for his installation!” said the former president. “It was I who introduced him to…


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.