The other day I attended a talk at a sporting location, where the speaker, a very famous author, whose books I have read, talked. Mind you, not ‘spoke’. Talked. Words flew out of his aged mouth from a voice that was powerful and resonant. Unfortunately, it was not a speech….


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.