Gerald D'Cunha

Pic.: Anima D'Cunha O n 12 th June, 2016, The Dawn Club Centre of Excellence had published its latest book – ‘WHAT MAKES ME CONFIDENT’. I wish to share with you, in today’s blog, the ‘Afterword’ I had written for this book… S everal years ago, I found a small book by the title - ‘Changes’. It was a book written for adolescents and it carried guest articles from some of American icons. All of them had shared in this book their stories – how they became confident and successful in life. What I loved the most about this book was the simple imagery used by the author (Mysteriously, I don’t remember the author’s name… and, I have failed to get it from every source I have tried) to explain to little-ones how to be self-confident in life. I loved the imagery so much, that, over all these years, I have shared it with my own students – both, little-ones and young-ones. Here is the imagery… “Self-confidence is like a stool with three legs,” the author tells in the ...

Pic.: Anima D'Cunha O n 12 th June, 2016, The Dawn Club Centre of Excellence had published its latest book – ‘WHAT MAKES ME CONFIDENT’. I wish to share with you, in today’s blog, the ‘Afterword’ I had written for this book… S everal years ago, I found a small book by the title - ‘Changes’. It was a book written for adolescents and it carried guest articles from some of America's icons. All of them had shared in this book their stories – how they became confident and successful in life. What I loved the most about this book was the simple imagery used by the author (Mysteriously, I don’t remember the author’s name… and, I have failed to get it from every source I have tried) to explain to little-ones how to be self-confident in life. I loved the imagery so much, that, over all these years, I have shared it with my own students – both, little-ones and young-ones. Here is the imagery… “Self-confidence is like a stool with three legs,” the author tells in...

Pic.: Ashwin Mohta T his is Lent… a very solemn period of forty days when, we, Catholics, remember the painful last days of Jesus Christ. We fast, pray, repent… make amends, seek forgiveness, mercy… and, yes, we promise to be less sinful hereon… I remember a powerful scene in Jesus Christ’s life. A mob of hardcore Pharisees have dragged a sinful woman – a prostitute – and thrown her in front of Him. “This woman leads an adulterous and sinful life,” they breathe fire before Jesus, “The Law of Moses commands us to stone this woman to death… What have you got to say?” The Pharisees have asked this question to trap Jesus… They are waiting for the answer with stones in their hands. Jesus takes a pause… moves a few steps forward, bends down and writes on the sand: “The one among you, who has not sinned, let him cast the first stone!” Within seconds, the stones fall off the hands… and, one by one, the hateful Pharisees disappear from the scene… ...