Selling Your Soul to the Devil.!
There are many who sell their soul! They sell pure thoughts, their honesty, their beliefs in exchange for a favour, which reminds me of the legendary Dr Faust who in Goethe’s classic, sold his soul to the devil: Faust is bored and depressed with his life as a scholar. After…
Dare to be Ruthless and Compassionate..!
In my book DARE there is chapter on being both ruthless and compassionate, and I give the example of my teacher: Her name was Miss Bailey, she was English and she taught me in junior school. She cycled to school, on a beautiful bike crafted in England, and on entering…
DARE to Make an Ass of Yourself..!
Two days ago I was asked to be the Chief Guest and give the Valedictory Address to the students of a school in Mumbai who were passing out, and I decided to speak from my book DARE, which incidentally is being launched today. “Dare to Make an Ass of Yourself!”…
Remembering Gandhiji Today..!
Today as we remember the murder of the Father of our nation, my mind goes back to a drive through Kentucky when suddenly my eye was caught by miles and miles of stonewalls alongside the road, “Built by slaves!” said my brother and I stared at the walls. “Stop the…
Bill Gates and a Lowly Tile..!
“Amazing!” I exclaimed at what I was reading on a website, “Two-thirds of the world’s 946 billionaires made their fortunes from scratch, relying on grit and determination, and not good genes.” I read on, “Bill Gates was a dropout, who finally got his honorary degree from Harvard University in June,…
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.