I remember that Sunday morning: Three women with smiles on their faces shared their lives with the audience who had gathered in the air-conditioned hall of a five-star hotel. I’m going to change their names: Mary was the first to come to the mike. There was a smile on…


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.