The Reunion

        She was everything that he was not.  Good-looking, talented, confident and successful.  She was Sweety Kapadia and he was Varun Khera.  Both had met in college several years ago.  30 years to be precise.  She had entered a co-ed college, straight from a placid, strict, all-girls school and he had taken admission there, straight from a boisterous yet strict, all-boys school.  Both of them had set notions about college-life and the other sex!  What had once been taboo for both of them, was the bait for both of them.  Interacting with members of the ‘opposite sex’!

        
       Try as they would, they just couldn’t overcome their inhibitions, ingrained into their heads after years of brain-washing by their parents and teachers.  ‘One mustn’t talk to boys’.  ‘One mustn’t talk to girls’.  It would divert their attention and disturb their concentration in studies.  Studying was the be-all and end-all of their existence, with the occasional basket- ball match or the excursion, thrown in to relieve their humdrum ‘school-going’ routine.

       

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