Finish Your Race..!
A sad plea I hear ever so often, especially from the old or sick: “Bob!, why does God want to prolong my life, can’t He take me away?” By 7 p.m. on October 20, 1968, at the Mexico City Olympics Stadium, it was beginning to darken. It had cooled down…
Sweet Music In Being Booed..!
Yes, there’s music in the booing of a crowd. A music that lies within us and will only start playing when hardship or challenges or the booing of friends and enemies stirs us to try even harder in some venture where the world expects us to fail, and then we…
Facing the Unfamiliar..!
Facing the unfamiliar is not something we love, especially being children of routine, but it could turn out fun, as mine did, a few years ago, when there was no lunch laid out for me that day: It’s a habit of mine to leave my front door open, while I…
Tackling the Impossible..! .
And as we rejoice over Chandrayaan 3 and exult in the fruition of an impossible dream, we need to understand that all impossible projects need not be a landing on the moon! Around the beginning of the last century, polio was rampant, irreversibly paralyzing thousands of children. Immunization programs were…
Learning and Earning..!
Most of today’s billionaires earned while they learned! And maybe that’s one reason there aren’t too many in India, since many of those billionaires abroad learned a lot from the jobs they worked at even as they studied. I’m certainly not anywhere near being a billionaire, nor aspiring to be…
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.