Gerald D'Cunha

Pic.: Chandrasekhar Varier M y wife and I have just returned from a two-day Tai Chi camp held at Lonavala. Rakesh Menon, our Tai Chi teacher, doesn’t believe in any rigid rules, either when he conducts our regular sessions on Sundays or while conducting our annual camps… Yes, he offers us that choice to ‘observe or ignore’ the unwritten and invisible rules, which are right there in front of our eyes… Yes, Rakesh sir leaves it to us… For two days, when we were at Lonavala camp, I never heard Rakesh sir insisting on keeping aside our cell-phones. All of us had been so hooked on to our phones – calls, messages, mails, WhtsApp, Facebook and Twitter – yes, the thought of living our two days without touching our phones was not only unthinkable, it was scary, too… And, trust me, I lived last two days without touching my cell-phone… Well, I did check once, and made one call-back… There were many missed calls… Many messages… Because my building friend, Anil, had tried m...