Gerald D'Cunha

Pic.: Pradeep Nanda O ne of my favorite lines has been this: “We need a distance to appreciate and value  the beauty, might and glory of a mountain.” This is very akin to what that old adage says: “Distance makes love fonder.” Yesterday was Teachers’ Day. Right since midnight, I was getting messages from all over, yes, from my students. But, I could feel that the best and the most sincere wishes came from my old – many very old – students… They wrote some wonderful things about me, my impact on them as a teacher, how they spoke about me, their teacher, to their young-ones at home or their bosses and colleagues at office… Some of them had taken up teaching as their career… and they claimed it was because of me… The stories went on like this… and, let me tell you, there was no pretense or diplomacy in what was being said… How am I so sure of that? When I was a student, I never valued and appreciated my teachers the way I started d...