>> And so comes the day to celebrate Sylvie. Sylvester da Cunha, the boy from the celebrated Goan family of da Cunhas from Arpora who came to Mumbai and brought wit and zing and a huge dollop of utterly-buttery style to the world of advertising and theatre. Da Cunha who produced satirical plays that commented on the state of things in India long before any of today’s terribly clever stand-up comics had grown their first pre-pubescent facial fuzz. Da Cunha who when we were rookie journos, lived with his Cambridge-educated blue stocking writer wife Nisha in a gingerbread cottage at the top of a long and winding road that just happened to be in one of Mumbai’s most tony neighbourhoods. That Sylvie. It’s his birthday today. And it’s time to celebrate him. For his urbanity and insight, his humouru00a0and wit.