What stands out for me in this post is the preponderance of Catholic and
Goan journalists in the Times of India in the Bombay of those days. Imagine
a Catholic Staff Association in a newspaper in cosmopolitan Bombay today --
impossible, right? The size of the Catholic cohort in the media in Bombay
may still have been quite formidable in the early 1980s, going by the fact
that Cardinal Pimenta called a press meet of Catholic journalists when I
was with UNI news agency, or perhaps it may have been the Times. I confess,
though, that I smirked at the idea of such a gathering in a nationalist
India and acted quite unconnected with the retards present because I no
longer attended Mass, like I was above such sectional dos! What stupid,
immature idiots we are in our youth! I wonder if the Catholic Staff
Association still exists in the Times today.