My Priests, My Writing.
MY PRIESTS, MY WRITING By Jeremy Leariwala Someone said, ‘show me your friends and I will tell you who you are.’ Another one, still, said, ‘you are what you read and what you think.’ Well, I found myself toying with these statements in my mind and remembered my priests. During my childhood, late 70s, unlike the case today, almost all the learning institutions, around my home, were church-owned-and-managed. From nursery schools all the way to technical schools. We attended these schools and, due to their roles in management, priests were among the common people we interacted with on a day to day basis. First, from them, we learnt quite a lot: the meaning of celibacy, service to the church and that Jesus NEVER disappoints. Secondly, they supplied our schools with books-lots of books, and they made sure that we watched, at least, one cinema every Saturday. The books and movies ‘transported’ us to the outside world, gave us a glimpse of what we didn’t know those days and broa...