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“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”-Kalam Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen( APJ) Abdul Kalam was born in a small village to a boat owner and his wife. At an early age he was selling newspapers to help his family sustain themselves. His first dream to become a fighter pilot was […]

Small April sobbed, I’m going to cry Please give me a cloud to wipe my eye; Then April Fool, she laughed instead And smiled a rainbow overhead.-Anonymous “A fellow who is always declaring he’s no fool, usually has his suspicions.”-Anonymous  A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to […]

Sachin Tendulkar may have inspired others to write poetry but he batted in robust prose. Not for him the tenderness and fragility of the poet, the excitement of a leaf fluttering in a gentle breeze. No. Tendulkar is about a plantation standing up to the typhoon, the skyscraper that stands tall, the cannon that booms. […]

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and…Play consists of whatever a body is […]