Gerald D'Cunha

I was in a departmental store, last evening. Diwali being close, there was a long queue at the payment counter. On the large TV screen, just behind the cashier, Mr. Bean show was on… And, after a very, very long time, I found myself just laughing, the way I would do as a little school-child. I really didn't mind the waiting… I really didn't care as to who stood around me… Mr. Bean’s stupid exploits just broke my resistance… For that moment, I really forgot that I have been heavily stressed out all through the day. Stressed out for what? Yes, I can give a hundred reasons why I was stressed out… But, justifying my stress with reasons is the surest way of re-enforcing it in my life… While watching Mr. Bean’s exploits, I found the stiffness in my body all dropping, the serious-as-grave look in my eyes turning into a twinkle of a little child… and, the desire to ‘enjoy life’… laugh… play like a child… springing up in my soul, all over agai...

If we are too serious, we can't live in this world!  And, if we have not 'lived' here, in this world, the heaven-gates will be shut for us! Seriously! There was this man by the name Pascal. All his life, he remained a celibate and he was extremely proud of this fact. One day, at a very ripe age of hundred, this virgin died, and as he had always expected, went straight to heaven.   However, at the heaven's gate, Pascal had to encounter the heaven-in-charge, the grand-old-man - St. Perter. "So Pascal, have you loved a woman in your hundred-year life?" Peter asked, straightaway. "No, never... Ever," Pascal asserted, brimming with pride that he had never touched a woman, all his life. "Have you not loved your neighbour?" the grand-old Peter quizzed. "What? When I had chosen to live a clean life, how can you expect me to covet my neighbour's wife?" Pascal was annoyed at this s...

"Mind your language; what do you mean by 'aarayela hai'," Dr. Dastana, aka. Mamu, warns his ward boy. The ward boy has just tried to please his boss, so sincerely, by breaking the bizarre news: Mamu's nemesis, Munna and his sidekick Circuit have entered the hospital with a king-size bed. Munna is a man with a mission. He has dropped the desire to get married to Mamu's daughter, Chinky, and now obsessed with the desire to marry Dr. Suman. But, not before making Mamu's life miserable. "Vaat lagayega teri," he had vowed ... Like Chanakya. Long before the movie ends, the frustrated Dr. Dastana - the upright Dean of the prestigious medical college - vows behind the closed door: "Vaat main lagayega teri!" The very next moment, he beats with both his hands his melonlike head and bemoans, "What am I saying!" Mamu is unable to believe, that he, too, can succumb to such levels. From a hardcore Gandhian to a hardcore terrorist, from the...