“Who lives in that room?” I asked my friend. “Nobody,” he said. “Then why do you keep talking to him?” My friend looked puzzled. But throughout lunch, he had spoken of a man who had hurt him years ago. He remembered the words, the place where they had been spoken…


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.