Speaking Tree  In his book, Self-Help, published in 1859, the Scottish author and reformer Samuel Smiles rightly observes: ‘It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficulty that makes man.’…

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan | Speaking Tree Website | Monday August 12, 2013 Mahatma Gandhi was very shy by nature. In his book, "My Experiments with Truth", he confesses that it was a long time before…

The Sunday Guardian  November 16, 2013 was a special date for the Indian cricket star, Sachin Tendulkar. It marked the end of a career in cricket spanning 24 years, in which he emerged as a superman…

Speaking Tree Mahatma Gandhi spent twenty years in South Africa. In June 1893, he had to undertake a trip to Pretoria in the Transvaal, a journey which took him to Pietermaritzburg. There, Gandhi…

The Sunday Guardian  Alfred Adler (1870-1937) was an Austrian psychologist. The title of one of his books is The Practice and Theory of Individual Psychology (1927). In this book, he discusses man's…

Speaking Tree Website | March 24, 2014 Louis Braille (1809-1852) was born in France as a normal boy. He is famously known as the inventor of Braille, a system of reading and writing used by persons…

Speaking Tree | February 9, 2015 According to a report published in The Times of India, a survey of the world’s 100 richest people today reveals that the vast majority of them did not inherit their…

Speaking Tree Website I January 12, 2015 Edson Arantes do Nascimento who is better known as Pelé was born in 1940 in Brazil. From his childhood days he showed keen interest in playing football.…

Speaking Tree Website | December 08, 2014 Richard Allen (b. 1963) is the drummer for the English hard rock band Def Leppard. Since an early age he showed great interest in playing drums. At the age…