On December 17, 1903, the brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright became the first men to successfully pilot a heavier-than-air craft under both control and power. Orville and Wilbur Wright were bicycle…

Helen Hooven Santmyer is now 88 years old, crippled and half-blind. She also suffers from emphysema. Because of her infirmity, she resides permanently in a nursing home in Xenia, Ohio, U.S.A. Over…

Adverse circumstances can arouse latent potential and act as a spur to greater and more determined action. That great souls are the product not of ease but of adversity is borne out by history. One…

Every man and woman wants peace of mind. But it is hard to find an individual who can say that he has attained such a state of mental equilibrium as will allow him to live a life of tranquillity.…

The Sunday Guardian | 23rd Dec. 2012 The atom is the final unit of matter, just as the individual is the final unit of society. If one succeeds in breaking an atom one does not destroy it; rather…

The Sunday Guardian | 16th June 2013 | ST Blog | Sep 23, 2013 There is a verse in the Quran, which says: "Do they never reflect on the camels and how they were created" (88:17). The camel is one of…

The Sunday Guardian | April 27, 2014 I once happened to meet a youth. He was greatly perturbed. Someone had badly treated him, because of which he was provoked. His anger reached an extent that he…

The Sunday Guardian According to a report published in the Times of India (18 August 2013, p. 12), a survey of the world's 100 richest people revealed that the majority of them did not inherit their…