When the Teleprompter Fails..!
In the good old days when public speaking was an art, many enrolled in classes to learn how to have confidence in themselves, how to convince people and thereby control a situation, which were known as the three Cs of public speaking. Cicero, in his Roman toga, used deft hand…
Good Looks.!
‘……May the outer and inward man be one..’ Socrates Years ago as a teenager, I remember seeing Gregory Peck in Mc Kennas Gold and telling myself that wow, I would love to be that man. He was one of the handsomest men I had ever seen on or off screen….
Throw Those Free Glasses Away..!
“What’s happening?” I ask as a man on the street with a loudspeaker announces, “Free! Free! Free!” “A political party is distributing spectacles free of cost for everybody!” says someone in the crowd. “But I have my own glasses!” I tell him. “But these are different,” the man distributing glasses…
Cashing the Confidence Cheque..!
Many years ago I worked as a salesman in my dad’s company and have always been glad for that experience, especially stuff my father taught me. Ever so often I would hit a rough patch when for days I would trudge the roads and not bag a single order. “Take…
Beauty Instead of Violence..!
So often when we are hit, we feel we have to hit back with the same weapons. But we should learn to fight back with the instruments of peace instead and bring in beauty where violence exists. At 4.00 pm on May 27,1992, in the war-torn city of Sarajevo, people…
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.