01/02/2013
Dear readers !
We know this is a tad bit late, but with soaring popularity of this article featured in Jan'13 issue - we thought perhaps more of our readers would like to catch up on this hilarious romantic biting-satire by Aniruddh Sastry.
Love in the Time of curfew
This is outrageous and blasphemous. I have just realized that a premier Institute of science in India has a common parking space for vehicles belonging to guys and girls. What does this mean? Guys and girls can be in close proximity for the time it takes to get one’s vehicle out of the parking lot and drive away. I think this is something that cannot be tolerated at all. What sort of values and cultures are we teaching the “children”?
When asked about this the authorities have said that in a co-ed Institute these compromises have to be made. In fact, they added that girls and boys actually sit together during classes and are allowed to eat food together as well.
But what the authorities do not seem to realize is that studying and eating ( the mess food is hardly conducive to romance) are sacred activities and there is no way that boys and girls can be involved in any sort of inter-s*x cross-gender hanky-panky during those hours. Moreover, isn’t it known that these activities are going to happen only in the night and not during the day ( hormones, clocks and the romantic moonlight at midnight )? I have always been told that I shouldn’t be spending a night with a person of the opposite s*x. While in parking lots, which are open all night without moral policing, there is a high chance of activities which can tarnish the image of an Institute of national importance. It is another matter that we are nit-wits who think that the ....
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