Those who are ready to perform menial tasks show themselves fit for great ones
Al-Risala (English), August 1985, p. 5
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is named as the default author of the periodical; a piece that carries another writer’s byline is credited to that writer.
Those who are ready to perform menial tasks show themselves fit for great ones
1985 8 August 5 Those who are ready to perform menial tasks show themselves fit for great ones (111) The journalist James Cameron, who died on January 27, 1985, ended his career at the very pinnacle of his profession. In an obituary to Cameron, Tom Bairstow called him “the outstanding reporter of his troubled age and a supreme stylist.” He started his career, however, in the most menial of manners, filling editorial paste pots at the age of 16, for 15 shillings a week (about Rs. 12/-). His way to the top was a hard one, “through the educative rigours of an apprenticeship in D.C. Thomson’s dreary Dundee wordmill, where a laddie was expected to do a man’s job and be quick about it.”
(The Guardian Weekly, February 3, 1985)
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