Gerald D'Cunha

  Like others, I too did not leave home yesterday. Yes, our TV was on right from 7 am till late in the night! It is really unusual in our house. We watch less TV, a few programmes here and there. In fact, there was a time, we managed without a TV for close to ten years! Life went on smoothly… We did not miss anything! So, yesterday, when our TV was on, and we were glued to the live telecast, like that, I found it quite unbelievable! Well, this Post is not going to be about our addiction to TV or sensational news or about Balasaheb Thackrey. Even if I write a word on him, it might seem an overdose… So much is said, written and shown about him. I think, that’s enough. Some days ago (on 2 nd November), I had written about Balasaheb in my Post – ‘The Lion And The Sunset’. I had written in that Post, that, though, like so many, I too did not like or approve his kind of Politics, I had admired the Man for so many things. My...

In my last Post, I had narrated the story of a little bird who tried desperately to advise a monkey. The monkey was an idiot. But, he thought the bird was an idiot. In the end, it was clear to us: We should give advice to others… only when it is asked for. Else, we end up inviting trouble for us – the grave one, some times – as the little bird did. Today, I have another popular story to tell. The story of ‘three donkeys’. One day, a father and son loaded goods on the back of their donkey and went to the market to sell. By the afternoon, they had sold all the goods and they were returning home. The loving father had made his young son sit on the donkey on their way home.  They had barely traveled some distance, when a passerby saw them and exclaimed: “What a pity! The young son is enjoying on donkey’s back and the poor-old father is made to walk in the hot Sun!” When the father and son heard this, immediately, the son came down and the ...