She was just seventeen, French and weeping on my daughter’s shoulder as she came out of the restaurant where we’d partied last night. “What’s up?” I asked my little one, “Why’s she crying?” “What kind of friends do you have dad?” asked my daughter as she walked with the weeping…


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.