“What is truth?” asked Pilate, looking straight at Jesus. It’s the kind of question only a politician could ask with a straight face — a bit like asking a doctor, “What is health?” while chewing on a batata vada deep-fried in last year’s oil. And poor Pilate — he had…


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.