Gerald D'Cunha

Pic.: Usha Prasadh ”If the room is dark for twenty years, it doesn’t take another twenty years to bring light in.” - Sri Sri Ravishankar T here is no direct road to heaven… No short-cut, no express-ways or flyovers… and, certainly there are no ‘freeways’… The road to heaven ‘has to be’ through this world – through its plateaus, plains and mountains… through its jungles and deserts, rivers and seas… through its conflicts, sorrows, joys and  jubilation … None of, here, wants life to be tough. But, the life ‘is’ tough. All of us want our problems to go, once and for all. But, they don’t. The more we try to shut ourselves from the problems and sufferings of this world, the more and more they come to haunt us… Closing our eyes to the reality of this world will not help us… Opening our eyes to them, will! Prince Siddhartha’s father, the King, did not want his little son to see and experience the problems and sufferings of the wo...

Pic.: Chetna Shetty “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.” - Carl Jung T he Dawn Club had completed twenty-five years in 2014. I had been telling all my well-wishers that I had this dream to build an institution – THE DAWN CLUB CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE – to carry forward the work I had started twenty-five years ago. Yes, to carry it forward as an institution and leave an enduring legacy. Though I had been passionately talking about it to scores of my well-wishers, who were keen to support me all the way, something seemed to hold me back… I would find it mysterious to figure it out… Was it a fear deep down… the familiar fear of failure… What if I fail? Was it the lack of clarity of vision? Was it the lack of clearly-defined ‘product’… What we wanted to offer as an institution? Was it the lack of a very animated and equally-passionate team? Was it de...