Have you seen that video? The one where an Indian woman in Los Angeles is caught shoplifting, her cart bursting at the seams with loot not paid for? No expression of guilt. No whisper of remorse. Just a flustered, frantic face—because she had been caught. Ah yes, that scared expression:…


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.