hi folks

Yesterday I was flipping channels after a long time and a special feature on one of the news channels caught my eye. It said 'ek professor ki prem kahani'. I believed that something BIG must have happened by the way the journo and the 'expert' on the set looked. Surely someone was killed or something like that.

It turned out that some professor of Patna University had fallen in love with 'Julie' of Jawaharlal Nehru University and the professor's wife had serious objection to it! My! what a story, as if professors never fall in love with girls half their age? or wives never object? really I was asking what is the story?

It was horrible as visuals of wife's physical violence against the girl were shown repeatedly. Wife's desperation was all over her face- she married this man many many years ago when her parents must have given a fat dowry and while she followed social rules, he is breaking them- with aplomb! He is taking away her place, her rights- to this new woman and there is no social pressure against him? Where is the society  that tied her to him? and expected her to 'serve' him? Would the reaction be same had she taken a young lover?

It is sad that she chose to beat the girl in desperation rather than take her husband to court. She can get a divorce on grounds of adultery but with it lose her social and financial future. Husband would keep contesting alimony and maintainence ensuring it is too late and too little. 

A female writer was contacted for her views on theis extramarital relationship talked sense when she said that if the professor was really in love why didnt he divorce his wife and married Julie? and what would happen to Julie if he decides to return to his wife tomorrow? or finds another woman? and to this that journo very seriously reacted- 'so do you agree withe prof and her lover's definition of love?'

God save us from this media!