Gerald D'Cunha

Pic.: Tess Alexander/Bridget Babu “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” -  David Viscott T hey were showing ‘Ashiqui – 2’ on TV last night. When my wife, accidentally surfed on it, almost three-fourth of the movie was over. Something attracted her attention, and she chose to watch whatever was left. And, soon, I joined her... Well, both my wife and I hadn’t seen the movie earlier despite it receiving so many good reviews and awards, both for film and music. So, if I say, here, that, ‘Ashiqui- 2’ was a ‘Love story’, you know what a review would my observation would receive! But, if I say, here, that Love stories never end? That, they appeal to all ages? That, at heart, we all are ‘Ashiquies’ – lovers? That, each one of us has a love story, which can be made into a great movie? That, there is so much sweetness and sourness packed in everyone’s story? That, the feeling of being in love is the greatest feeling of all?...

A gentleman called me the other day and wanted me to help his daughter in the Accountancy subject. Now, that’s nothing special to talk about, here. Let me tell you, in this Post, what makes this case special. The girl had done exceptionally well in her latest twelfth-standard CBSE-Board-exams. They were planning to enroll her in one of the select engineering-colleges; and, if that would not happen, they would make her switch over to commerce and settle for nothing less than Chartered Accountancy! When the call came to me, that night, from the father of this girl, I was a lot apprehensive. Switching over to commerce after twelfth, without any foundation of the core subject, Accountancy, is nothing uncommon. I do get to teach many such students, every year. But, directly jumping over to CA… Yes, I had to grill this gentleman. But, throughout the discussion, he sounded extremely confident of his young daughter. “Sir, we have done our enough home w...