Gerald D'Cunha

“Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.” -        Andrew Wiles P eople have already started sending ‘Thank-you notes’… December has started, you see. Actually, that’s a nice feeling… both, to tell someone ‘Thank you for everything’… and to hear from someone the same… Two days ago, I saw a touching video sent to me by one of my ex-students now based in Tanzania. “Sir, I wanted to say this to you,” he wrote, “Though more than twenty years have gone by!” It was late in the night… I was about to go off to sleep. Now, who wouldn’t feel moved by a confession like that? I got a good sleep that night! Thanks-giving is one side of the coin. The other side is seeking forgiveness for hurting people around us. Thanks-giving comes to us relatively easily. But, to seek forgiveness, we need to bend more, melt more… I look back at the year that is about to dissolve and s...

Pic.: Azriel D'Souza A couple of us were trying to raise a certain amount of money for a noble cause. We had approached some of our friends and well-wishers and most of them had responded positively. Some had contributed more than what we had expected, while some had contributed less… And, some had shown a cold indifference, while, yes, some had really come from nowhere with their generosity and delighted us! Still, we were left with a small deficit. An hour ago, I wrote about it to one of our core-team members. He, instantly, gave me three names, including his own… and said ‘Done’. “Amen,” I got back to my friend, “All is well that ends well!” I must have tossed those words, which Shakespeare had made famous through his play, casually… But, then, the moment I had used them, I began to think about those words… So true those words were! T he fund-raising activity was just a metaphor. When we had begun, we had no clue who we could rope in… But, d...