This particular incident happened way back in my 11th standard. Given the fact that there was a craze to join State board schools for the 11th and 12th, I moved on to Vidyashram, which was touted to produce marvelous results. Vidyashram, it turned out, was a very strict school with it’s share of eccentric rules! One of them was, gals and guys SHOULD NOT talk to each other. You won’t believe the extent to which the administration went to reinforce this rule, we even had orientation programs held separately for boys and girls during the first week of school, where we were logically lectured on the cons of speaking to the opposite gender and the pleasures of mingling with our own brood.
