When my children were small we had a young maid to look after them. She had come from an orphanage and something she loved doing after her chores and often during them was watching TV. I was told this was the only form of entertainment the girls had in their…


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.