Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Speechless!

Scene 1

Kumar came to me and said, "Sudhir I need to talk to you.  It's important".  "Fine.  Right now?"  "NOOO!  Somewhere else!" he had a bewildered, "HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT" expression on his face.  So we walked out of the college, sat in the park, away from any snooping ears or eyes.  "So, what's it that bothers you?"  I asked Kumar.

He looked away, fidgeted and then sharply turned toward me and said, "You know my father has three children".  It was a statement rather than a question.  Of course I knew both his sisters.  One elder and the other younger.  "To make all the three children, did my father have to have sex three times or was once enough?"

Scene 2

Kempegowda Medical College canteen.  A group of girls are having this chat over their snacks.  
"What does your sister do Madhavi?"
"She's doing her engineering.  She's in the second year at the BMS"
"How come she's in the second year?  She's younger to you right?"
"Yeah she's younger.  But we are twins"
"Oh!"
"Yeah, she's just 6 months younger to me"

The two incidents narrated above happened in reality.  Beyond the bafflment and the humour, I see the necessity of sex education that otherwise is being denied by our prudish society.

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