"Any student found without a boyfriend or girlfriend will face penal action. Start making suitable arrangements. If caught without a boyfriend or girlfriend inside the college after the given date, you shall be fined. Mind you, each student is allowed only one boyfriend or girlfriend. Abide by this rule or be suspended and pay a fine of Rs 1,000.” According to a news report, as also the social media, this was a notice that sent waves of laughter across Chandigarh University recently. However, the management didn’t find it funny. The prankster has been rusticated. The 'notice' came up on the notice board and the social media reportedly have written on an official letterhead gave the announcement a "stamp of authority". The prankster was a first-year student of computer science engineering and information security. But his victory was not momentary. The social media went ga..ga..ga…over the prank. Well, in this time of modernity which boy or girl does not have a BF or a GF?

Though the teenage love starts budding in the schools, the college life is where it really blossoms. This is because you attain a certain amount of maturity and knowledge about love?  But what is love? According to Khushwant Singh, when you are a teenager you feel a vacuum within you. And you want to fill that vacuum with the love of the opposite sex. There are philosophers who talked about eternal love. And we have Romeo and Juliet or our own version of Laila-Majnu, eternalizing love. Today, the love affair is made easy what with Facebook, Whatsapp, etc. assuming the role of the messenger.

Rewind 15-20 years back when these things were unheard of. Wooing a girl was a very difficult task then, especially when society has put so many restrictions on young boys and girls mingling with each other. So what do you do…look at her from the corner of your eyes and if she responds well…Then borrow her book for taking some backdated notes you deliberately missed. Well, the girl is obliging. Then when you return the book your heart is laid bare in the book with a love letter written and rewritten many times with choicest idioms and phrases borrowed from romantic novels or poems. Well, the old love letter. That was then the Facebook and Whatsapp.

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
      She is a graduate in Science with post graduation in Sociology from University of Pune. She has been in the media industry for nearly a decade. Before turning to print business, she has been associated with radio and television.
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