How often we meet people who after saying something tasteless, remark in defense, “Forgive me for being blunt, but I’m made that way!” Sometime back a friend of mine decided to start writing poetry, and sent me his first poem. My attitude towards reading that poem even before I saw…


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.