Gerald D'Cunha

A couple of days ago, I had blogged on the subject of human greed for money – rather, the temptation to grow rich faster… via whatever short-cuts, including the latest one: Bitcoin mania. A restless young man said to me, the other day, “Sir, today, the so-called the ‘hard-earned’ money is hardly enough for us to buy a decent house in any suburbs of Mumbai… Leave alone meeting other expenses.” I told the young man, that every generation had the same anxiety. “Even I had the same thought when I was your age,” I said, “but, along my way, I realized, that everything becomes expensive including the sale value of the goods and services we sell.” My advice to the young man was, that he had to learn to increase the sale value of his potential and not succumb to the temptation of making some easy money. But, the ‘young blood’ would not buy my theory so easily, you see! Last night, my bother forwarded to me a lovely story. I am sharing this story, here, with a few grammat...

“Money is usually attracted, not pursued.” —     Jim Rohn L ike many of my generation, I learn hundreds of new things around me only through the younger generation. For example – this thing called ‘Bitcoin’.  Some days ago, at a family gathering, one of my nephews told me about it. The earlier night, he had spent quite a lot time – he was awake almost till 3 in the morning – checking, analyzing, booking, buying, selling, I couldn’t understand what it was… My brother and I were both clueless about it. So, our nephew was at his best in educating his uncles on what his generation believed as ‘The Game Changer’ when it came to growing rich… and getting there fast! The number – 12-lakh-plus INR for one Bitcoin, as on the night our nephew narrated it to us, made my brother and me froze! Whatever that was – good, bad, ugly or outright evil… my brother and I both gave a good sermon to our young nephew, who had just started working and...

Mrs. Singh has two sons. The elder one does engineering, and the younger, first-year BMS. The two sons are as different as the two poles of our globe. Being a simple and a typical hard-working woman, Mrs. Singh had been trying desperately to inculcate in her two sons the value of hard work and money. With her 'hard-working', first son, she has succeeded. With her 'easy-going', second son, she has failed. The first one saves, the second one spends. The mother wonders ... Yesterday, she narrated to me this story - the 'Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani'. All these years, they did not have a credit card. Surprisingly, none. Now, for certain reasons, Mrs. Singh wanted to apply for one, and the sales representative from a very reputed credit card company had come. He asked for her latest mobile bill. When he saw it, his face wore the familiar look of smelling some disgusting stuff. But, he did not mention what it was. "Can you show me any other family member's mobile bill...