Gerald D'Cunha

I , consciously, made a decision to improve my English when I was in twelfth standard, Fr.Lawrence was our English professor and he was teaching us Shakespeare’s plays such as King Lear, Julius Caesar and Merchant of Venice. He was the first teacher, who, made me conscious of my English problem. Later, in my F.Y. B.Com, when Prof. B.S. Raman came to teach us Accountancy and Commercial Geography, I had decided to what to do in life: like him, a fine teacher. So, by now, I knew, what I had to do to achieve that goal… I was determined to do something about my English… There is this famous saying: “When you decide what you want in life, the whole Universe conspires to support you.” In my case, the Universe did not do any partiality…  My dad’s sister (Sr. Leo) was a nun and lived in a convent, hundreds of miles away from my home. One day, a sister by the name Sr. Lawrence, who was a very dear friend of my aunt, travelled all the way from their convent just to gift ...

Pic.: Pradeep Nanda T he latest Bollywood movie, ‘Baby’, is a brilliantly-made action-thriller. It keeps the viewer gripped till the end. The torture and violence depicted look very realistic… The movie is fast and furious, the dialogues are crisp and the editing is razor-sharp.   But, what intrigued me about ‘Baby’ was the muting of those ‘spicy’ words from the dialogues. Still, it all was happening so fast, that one did not even feel it. Yes, even if they had kept those crude words, I would have still respected and rated the movie very high! Films such as ‘Baby’ do need a grossly-blunt-and-crude language… It only makes the movie-experience very, very rich. So, I am not against the realism or the crude words perse' … I hope, if used in right context, the audience will, surely, respect them and find it tasteful... L ater, when I was talking about muting of crude words in the film, a friend of mine reacted swiftly, “Such muting makes no sense when ‘thi...