Gerald D'Cunha

  “One doesn’t defend one’s God. One’s God is in himself a defense.” Henry James   E very time, a little David kills a mighty Goliath, you think the little David will, one day, become a great king – the King David… a wise, kind and just king. That has been an old story of human behaviour. Did I say ‘human stupidity’? Only a few of us are spared from the ‘curse’ of Hero Worship… I am still not, Sir. So, every time, an Obama explodes on an American political scene, or an Indira Gandhi, an MGR, an NTR, a Modi, a Kejriwal and so on, here, on Indian, I, too, get carried away and, tend to say - ‘It’s going to be a new world, now on’ – Yes, ‘Acche din aanewale hai’ … The kingdom of Heaven will come on this earth, soon… Now, Mamta didi – the so-called woman in a cotton saree and Hawaiian chappals – has done a David’s job… She has just knocked out the Giant! So, there is this all-familiar Déjà vu, all over again… “Will she be the promised Messiah to usher in a new w...

“ Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.” -       Andy Stanley   “T he three most important ways to lead people,” said Albert Schweitzer, “ are by example… by example… by example.” “Go out and vote, if you really want our Society to change for the better… Vote out the corrupt. Vote in the honest.” Yes, this was how we all are ‘hoodwinked’ to come out and vote, every time an election comes up – be it National, State or Corporation election. For democracy to survive, elections have to take place. We all have to come out and elect our candidates… These candidates are supposed to lead us. Yes, by example! And, now, let’s look around us – what an example! What an ideal! What a leadership! If tomorrow an election is held, will you go out and vote – leave alone for ‘these’ leaders? They assume we are fools! Maybe they are right. We are fools, because we were more of someone’s blind ‘bakths’  than int...