Gerald D'Cunha

“Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.” Stephen King   H ow much is really enough? Is there a point in life, you and I will stop chasing, pursuing, wanting more and more and more? Will we ever say in our lives, ‘Enough’? To describe this human dilemma in Jesus’ words, “It’s as difficult for us to do that as it’s for a camel to walk through the eye of a needle.” Wanting more is a universal disease – a pandemic -   of human soul… It’s never enough… Ever. Well, if you ask me, “Have you stopped wanting more?”… Yes, my answer to that question is – “Not yet, Sir.” I know how difficult it is for me to walk through the eye of this needle… Ye dil, always, maange more… and more and more ji! T his morning, I bumped into this young man, who was my student some years ago. He lives here in this vicinity in his parents’ one-room house. In fact, he was born and has lived here for all his 30-plus years. He said, that he has been working for a real estate enterprise whi...

T he building, where my office and classes are located, is almost forty-year old. So, efforts are on for its redevelopment. Series of meetings, heated discussions, trust and distrust, allegations and counter allegations… and, above all, the endless human greed – yes, all these make the redevelopment proposal a frustrating experience… Even though the present market conditions are volatile, and even though the condition of our old buildings is pathetic – and yes, even though many of our residents are senior citizens and are no more in a position to wait for years and years for their new-house ‘dream’ to come true – when it comes to trust and greed, it is the greed that seems to overrule trust. Why not more? Yesterday, one of the prominent property developers had invited us for a site-visit. The sites were around Thane’s Ghodbunder road. One of the sites bore an exotic name. The sales executive literally ‘air-lifted’ us to the 26 th floor to show the sample flats… From ...