Gerald D'Cunha

  “Every child comes with the message, that God is not yet discouraged of man.” Rabindranath Tagore   M y wife and I have just returned after visiting Hardeep’s house. Hardeep is a friend of ours, who got married quite late in life. After marriage, she moved to Gurgaon where her hubby had been living. Presently, she is in Mumbai for a few weeks with her three-month-old baby-girl. So, my wife and I wanted to see both, the baby and the mother… The baby was fast asleep, with her tender hands raised the way the smiling/ laughing   Buddha did. In fact, in her sleep, the baby was smiling! For a while, I stood there mesmerized, reflecting over what Lish McBride had said: “You know what the great thing about babies is? They are like the bundles of hope… Like the future in a basket.” How I wished the baby in this basket remained a baby in the future, too! If alone the wishes were horses!!! You and I have been once babies like this little bundle of joy is… We,...

“Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice  but to believe with you.” - Mufasa O n last Sunday, when my wife and I walked into the cinema hall to watch ‘The Lion King’, the house was almost full… And, it was the second week, mind you! There were grandparents, young parents, young ones and little ones… And, like most of them, my wife and I, too, had watched the original version (1994). And, like, most of them, here we were - dying to watch this one, as well! ‘The Lion King’ is a great story – a story with a heart. What else explains the reason for our ‘dying thirst’ to watch it? We, as human beings, live not on ‘bread’ alone. The body needs bread; agreed. But, our hearts need great stories to keep going. Hence, our spiritual books are, essentially, supremely-told stories… Take ‘The Ramayana’ or ‘The Mahabharata’… Take ‘The Old Testament’ or ‘The New Testament’. To me, they are powerful stories… stories wit...