Nothing Comes Easy..!
It’s been a hard day of trekking for me in Ephesus, Turkey, but what I’ve learnt I don’t think I could have picked up from any encyclopedia or Google search. Gary Player for years was a great competitor in national and international golf tournaments. People constantly said to him, “I’d…
Hold Fast to Your Dream..!
“Bob, I also wanted to be a writer!” is something I hear at practically every party or gathering I go to. “Oh!” I exclaim politely, “Then what happened?” “People dissuaded me from being one!” they say dolefully. “And you compromised?” I ask. “Yes!” they whisper. Ah well it’s a story…
Apply Yourself.!
“Apply yourself..” Lee Iacocca As fathers struggle to make ends meet and mothers to bring up their families, you hear them longing for the day when they’ll have nothing to do. “Ah Bob!” they say, “I long for the day when I can put my feet up…” “And not put…
helplessness to Independence..!
“Come back!” I shouted at my dog a few years ago, when he was alive, but my huge German-Shepherd pretended he hadn’t heard my voice as he chased the poor, thin, undernourished, straggly bitch, who suddenly stopped, turned on her back with her four legs in the air, and looked…
Go Climb your Everest..!
’70 years on, Norgay and Hillary’s sons unite to celebrate Himalayan feat..” Times of India, May 29th At 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal, become the first explorers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which at 29,035…
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.