Family
He hails from Arpora, Bardez taluka in Goa. The Da Cunha family hails from Goa and claims descent from Saraswat Brahmins who converted to Catholicism in the 16th century. One of his relatives, José Gerson da Cunha was a noted historian, who wrote a history of early Mumbai, The Origin of Bombay (1900).
In the present generation, Gerson da Cunha and his younger brother Sylvester da Cunha, both were involved in advertising and English theatre.
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