The Longest Shortcut
by Anil David
My Road from Crime and Imprisonment to Self-worth
David was used to taking shortcuts. As a child he was a pathological liar. By the time he was 14, he had started to steal. At age 26, he was convicted of his first crime, taking clients’ funds, and sent to prison. After being released, he was convicted once again for criminal breach of trust and returned to serve his second sentence. Then in his late thirties, he stole close to $800,000 in a bank fraud, landing him in prison once again.
There is another side of Anil’s story. He was sexually abused by an uncle when he was 8. He was initiated into sex by a tutor as a teenager. He grew up with an absent father and a mother that was too busy. His life and ambition were based solely on material things. How then did this convict become an icon of resilience at a National Day celebration? What happened to make him a prize-winning social entrepreneur worthy of investment? Why is he trusted to run a call centre in the men and women’s prisons?
In The Longest Shortcut, Anil shares not just about this journey of redemption, but also the lessons he has learnt along the way about self-worth, parenting, leadership and hope.
Size: 115 x 180 mm
Extent: 136 pages + 16 pages plates
Binding: Paperback
Weight: 193 g
ISBN: 978-981-14-7673-0
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Praise For the Author
It is heartening to know that you are able to be a role model for prison inmates.
– Halimah Yacob, President of Singapore
I’m encouraged that Anil, an ex-convict himself, hopes to redefine rehabilitation for the inmates and to spur them on to be gainfully employed. He also started intensive training programmes for his staff to pick up new skills and learn to adapt to the culture where they are judged not by their past, but by their attitude. Well done, Anil!
– Heng Swee Keat, Deputy Prime Minister, Singapore
Anil earned the trust of social impact investors and those around him to establish an organisation that has as its mission the giving of meaningful second chances.
– Desmond Lee, Minister for National Development & Minister-in-charge of Social Services Integration
Here’s a guy who has been transformed himself, having been through what he’s been through, and now has a vision to go and build a business that can help others along the same journey and give them a second, third, fourth chance.
– Dato Dr Kim Tan, Chairman, Garden Impact Investments