I am disgusted by what the professor did. He has insulted the very noble profession which he is in. However, just look around, there are many filthy, opportunists like him wandering around looking for an opportunity.

I wonder what has gone wrong with the girl. From her behavior it seems she was opportunity incarnate for the professor. Is she mad, blind or both?

Can she not see a slimy, old, haggard, balding, gaunt, dark complexioned, spectacled wolf in the professor grabbing at his last chances before his teeth fall off? If she is so foolish she deserves what she has got.

As regards the professor's wife. Nothing new. A lady is being tortured by another one. That is how it always goes, doesn't it? Women are very often the cause of troubles for other women. Men are often blamed as they are the brawny ones around. If a woman was to feel and empathize with another woman would we have such professors getting opportunities?

Who watches all the Saas Bahu serials on TV? The poor men are busy at work. Millions of middle class house wives and teenaged girls are busy researching family disputes, filthy politics, flings and affairs shown on TV channels. Some channels even show affairs within a family and all this filth is lapped up eagerly by the fairer sex. No lady has ever raised a voice against the negative light in which women are portrayed in such TV serials. All are busy watching the twists and turns of filthy domestic politics and bhabhi-devar affairs. Shame on you!!!

Now when a behna goes out to enact some of that filth they get charged. They enjoyed within-family flings and affairs shown on TV but find it hard to tolerate this much milder and less sleazy enactment. What do we expect from the youngsters who have grown up watching filth sitting next to their highly engrossed mothers and sisters? As they watch the cleverly named "Ghar Ghar ki Kahanis" and "Har Ghar ki Kahanis" they grow up wondering how boring their household is. They become ideal victims for the waiting opportunistic Jekyll and Hyde professors, loafers, etc, etc and etc. Who is to blame? Your guess is as good as mine. - Rajesh Chaubey - July 10, 2006

The man is ugly, the woman (the student) is pagli. The wife should pull a Lorena Bobbitt (Google it, in case you are not familiar with her name) on this scum-bag. - Anil Kumar - July 10, 2006

Girl had rightly said that this hypocrite society behaves in double standard. Can you imagine blackening faces of Dharmendra/Hema Malini on similar count? Do we raise our voice on Dowry? We should first see our own house then point fingers to others. When you point one finger towards other then 3 fingers are always directed towards yourself. It is very easy to give advice but difficult to follow. In our parliament more then 60% are from criminal background. Who have elected them? Yes, we all are criminals to make our country what today it is. - P. K. Tyagi - July 10, 2006

Not sure when people from Bihar will grow mentally. What is wrong being in Love or Intimacy? Absolutely Nothing!! 30 years difference in age shouldn't be taken against the Love or Intimacy.

There are so many examples in world, where many people married or had girl friend with huge difference in ages. Just few examples., Sitar Maestro Pundit Ravi Shankar, Fifa Boss Sapp Blatter, Exiled king of Iran, Previous King of Syria, Jordan, Arafat, many business tycoons all over the world. I can see many such examples in western world with common people also. There is nothing wrong in it if both parties agrees and if they are adults. Grow Up!! No one has to be moral police. Leave the moral sense to preach to your infants!! People should mind their own business. Let people live their life as they want to be.

Indian TV media only sensationalise the news as they have no material or can't produce a good news channel or they have no money to put up a good News Channel. News channel of India is at best comic channel. I don't want to comment more on News channel quality to dilute the content of the message. - Rajeev Kumar - July 10, 2006

This incident has once again exposed the society of it's hypocrisy. This is the same Patna where a noted singer Udit Narayan Jha gets police protection, when his "wife" Ranjana Jha demands for her legitimate right and Udit shamelessly denies even knowing her. "Mai kisi Ranjana naam ke mahila ko jaanta tak nahi hoon". Did anyone dare paint Udit's face black? Did any dare write somewhere (on some website) that Udit was caught in "compromising position" with his girlfriend Deepa? Did anyone dare beat Deepa and drag her with hairs?

Media and "thikedaars" of the society are calling names and terming the professor as "love Guru" and bringing pure family issue on the roads? This professor is not denying the fact that the "wife" is not his wife. If the professor and Julie have committed any crime, let the affected party goes to the court. But the media and others watching and telecasting the incident on national TV channels when a person (professor's) wife was taking the law in her own hands and others painting professor's face black reminded me of recent incident when media and other spectators were more interested in recording films than saving a person when a man poured petrol on himself and thus immolated himself in full glare of media and public. Another point is - Is this such a big issue to get national TVs prime time attention? Just few days back, we read article on PatnaDaily by Kumod Jha how the news channels have diverted to become a masala channels. Media is one such example that shows that privatization and competition don't always bring quality. Very recently, a news item with video footage was shown on a news channel where a Ghaziabad based husband was complaining to the media that how his wife and "bhabhi" were having "relationship" when he was away.

This "incident" again highlights a fact that is often discussed in agony columns of newspapers and magazines that most of the failed marriages stem out of incompatible relationships at physical and mental level of both the partners. Marriage counselors and psychologists have been saying this for long. I am not saying that this could be the reason of failed marriage of the professor; at the most this is the lesson one can learn from this incident. Don't take your partner guaranteed for his/her love, as an "unsatisfied" person can stray for anything at any stage of life. Again not to say that "since the professor was unsatisfied from his wife hence ....". Why to be cautious only with regard to your partners, the same applies to your siblings as well. Just look around yourself. Don't you remember the incident of Pramod Mahajan?

This incident is as simple as a person aged 53-year old man gets "strayed" towards a beautiful, young, attractive Julie for the reason best known to the Professor, his wife and Julie. Is this straying very rare in the society? No it has been there for long, only now it is getting large coverage by media. So society is becoming a puppet in the hands of the powerful media.

If you are concerned with it's ill-impact on the society, let it remain within the four walls of home and courts and within the 3 persons involved. Why do you think that a "bad/corrupt" teacher will undo all the good deeds of nation/character building by rest of the good teachers so it is important to punish the love guru publicly?

If any handsome and young man is getting jealous of the fact that how come this young, beautiful and attractive girl Julie got attracted to an old, ugly professor despite the presence of the handsome, I can't help it. Are you surprised for hypocrisy of many young men/women in the society? Did they come out in such numbers and stop 'kanta laga..." song playing in Saraswati Puja Pandal? Do we have any right on being judgmental on the Professor, Julie or the "wife'?

Mr. Anil Kumar is prescribing "a Lorena Bobbitt by the wife" for the "ugly" professor. What is your prescription for the "beautiful" Julie? - Prabhat Sinha, Noida - July 10, 2006

If you read between the lines, you would know what is the prescription for Julie. She has been to mental institutes several times in the past as reported in the media. That's where she belongs and hence the adjective 'pagli'.

Mr. Sinha, you and I are diametrically opposed to each other as proven in past. I don't agree with you on your favorite topic 'reservation' and I don't agree with you on this issue either. You are free to have your opinion and I am free to have mine. Let's just leave it like that. - Anil Kumar - July 10, 2006

Please do not come to any conclusion based on TV channel reports. I prefer not to give a judgment on this case because I have certain questions unanswered yet. If the professor’s wife knew about her husband’s alleged illicit affairs with several young women, what was stopping her from filing a divorce petition? What result was she trying to achieve by dramatizing her personal issue in front of TV cameras? If the professor was being tormented by his wife and had found “true” love in his disciple, what was stopping him from getting married legally? And above all, why does such news sell so much?

Can laws decide what one should do in a failed relationship? Can psychologists decide? How personal is this decision? How social is the issue?

For news channels, the question is how “masaaledar” is the news? - Kumod Jha - July 10, 2006

You are right Mr. Rajiv Kumar, we should not be the 'moral police' of the world!

A brother or father having sexual relationship with 'jawan' sister/daughter is no business of the world. Let everyone do whatever they wish. A 9-year old steals your son's book - let him get away with it. After all who are we to say stealing is wrong? That would be 'moral policing'. A man burns his wife for dowry - let him exploit the girl or her family; who are we to judge what is moral and immoral? A student cheats in the exams - let him do it - who are we to say what he is doing is not right? We should mind our own business! We don't want 'moral cops' around us, do we? In fact, every human action and decision should be considered 'Right'; nothing should be wrong. Why should the society judge a person or be the "moral police'?

By the way, have you checked the latest poll being run by PatnaDaily? More than 82% are supporting Ranjana Narayan. And you are asking Biharis to grow up mentally! - R. K. Sinha - July 10, 2006

I agree with Mr. R. K. Sinha. If we just sit, watch and listen to wrong things thinking that none of us is perfect and hence no moral rights to be judgmental for right and wrong then even a judge in the court should not have rights to put a criminal, murderer or rapist behind the bar. As we grow up, become older, we should have more responsibility towards the ethical and moral values of the society. We all have desire for earning money, sex etc. but there are decent paths to meet these needs and we shouldn't cross the line after which we will be no different than animals. I definitely blame the beautiful lady Julie for her cheap way of securing higher marks. A call girl also sells her body for leading an aristocratic life and so Julie would be no better. But being so elderly, the professor (or any person) had more responsibility towards his duty and shouldn't have exploited the young female students by luring with the higher marks. The point is, if we do not oppose or criticise such acts then basically we are encouraging them and day by day we all and our future generation will be degraded morally. - Anand Singh - July 11, 2006

The age difference is of no consequence. We've seen many couples, usually of older men and younger women, in just about any country in the world.

The issue here is cheating, and for that his wife should take him for all she deserves. If this professor, or anyone for that matter, is going to start a new relationship, they should first finish the one they are in. Otherwise, he should be prepared to support both of them. - Robert, Winnipeg, Canada - July 11, 2006

Anil jee, with due respect, the professor may be “ugly”, the girl may be “pagali”, but most of the people who are being judgmental and critical are “junglee” for sure. If the same incident would have happened in the USA, the wife and the ruffians who painted the professor must be cooling their heels in incarceration for battery and assault; and the state must have been under pressure for damage of the reputation of the professor and failing to provide him with proper security. What a shame! What a man does inside his own house with another consenting adult, in the absence of his estranged wife, who resides somewhere else, is his business. Julie is an adult, a student of a premier college and the professor is the head of the department of a prestigious college. To lynch them on the street is simply barbaric. The law should take its own course; if any law is broken the guilty should be punished, and aggrieved party’s grievances should be properly addressed. There was an ace badminton player, Sayeed Modi, he was cruelly butchered in the broad daylight. A prominent politician, who was accused in the murder, married Amita Modi, the wife of Sayeed Modi. At his marriage ceremony, guess who attended the marriage, besides other politicians, the ex-premier of India. If those hooligans, who were able to paint the face of the professor, have guts, try to just curse the accused politician in public, and see what happens. Or, try to find out in what court Dharmendra Jee got divorce decree and how he got married with Hema Malini. Let us try to make India a society of rational and humane people, not a society of “jungalee” people. - S. Verma, New York - July 11, 2006

Let the love birds stay together. Who we are to make such comments on it? Love is soul of our heart and it should not be considered a crime. When, how, where and with whom it happens no one really knows. It has no boundaries, it is above all. So everyone of us must know one thing that revolution in our society has begun. May god bless to the "Love-Birds (Prof. Chaudhary & Julie)" - Vinay Kumar - July 11, 2006

I really don't believe that this article is true!! I think Julie looks really happy and so does the professor, so it sounds really untrue. - Ananya Gupta - July 11, 2006

Mr. R. K. Sinha and other emotional moral policing people,

You seem to be emotional and rationalize your thoughts illogically. There is a law of the land to give justice to people if they have done something wrong. What a adult father/brother/sister/son does is their own business and they will face the realities of their acts. If someone is baby, you could (or should) preach and be a moral teacher. Grow Up and smell the coffee rather being hypothetical!!! People of Bihar should be more worried about the roads, electricity, water, water-logging, AIDS prevention and other basic necessities. It is Not appropriate for the people to react irrationally to adult people conduct. There is law for it.

I don't care of PD survey or Indian news channel. It is for people who like to see other people cabinet than looking their own skeleton. I hope some of people will learn to rationalize the things in practical perspective. - Rajeev Kumar - July 11, 2006

Once again Mr. Rajeev Kumar, you've shown your brilliance! Morality should not be a part of adult lives; they should be reserved for babies only. Why worry about 'stupid things' like personal responsibility or issues like morality when there is a judiciary system set up to deal with those who break the law? I say do away with the preaching in Gita, Bible, and Quran, ban books on morality like Panchtantra and Hitopadesh. Morality is for hypocrites. We should worry about improvement in roads and electricity and don't waste any time on what is right and what is wrong! Development and morality cannot go together. Only uncouth Biharis have time to discuss issues related to morality. People in other states don't have to deal with this issue.

So all you Biharis out there, listen to what Rajeev ji is saying: wake up and smell the coffee rather than being 'hypothetical'.

'Nuf said! - R. K. Sinha - July 11, 2006

What is your problem if he has sex with younger or older women? All that matters legally is that she is not a minor. As an adult, she can better decide what is right and what is wrong for her. The age of the man is not an issue either. Did he rape anyone? Did he cause trouble by running naked through the streets? Has he caused a major shift in the balance of society? What is the uproar about?

Maybe you do not have enough stuff to do at home. It seems like people have so much free time to mind others' business. Have you guys ever heard this song: Jisne kabhi na Paap Kiya ho, woh pahla pathar mare? Just tell me before becoming the moral police, who has never done anything wrong? Who among us can say that we are a saint and have never made any mistakes or committed any sins? I am sure there is not one among us who can truthfully attest to such a statement. Please do not try to become moral police.

Ms. Seema Jyotishiji wrote that being a teacher precludes one on some special ground from having extramarital sex. With all due respect, if this activity is wrong for one group of people, then it is wrong for all. I agree that as a society, we have certain expectations for certain groups of people, but I think we do this out of habit and a bit of hypocrisy. It is none of our business to divide people into two groups that way. If something is wrong, it is wrong, if it is right, it is right: end of story.

Coming back to the question raised by one of our brothers: No one raised a question about the negative light the women are being portrayed in. If the story is real, what question can be raised? If you are a nice guy and I call you a thief, then you will be angry; but if you are already a thief, how can you cry?

Regarding Udit Narayan: how the women's commission is showing their naiveté or simple stupidity! They can summon anyone on the basis of false case. Tomorrow someone can go to commission, file a complaint that she is my wife and I have to go to Patna to prove that she is not my wife. Wow!! What a great idea to harass anyone. Even if the complainant is my wife, we have laws for dissolving marriages. An unhappy marriage is not a life sentence. Sometimes, the ideas that we just blindly accept amaze me.

As for the young woman in the original story: what is the problem if she has been to a mental hospital or a dental hospital? Are you keeping track of her? By the way, since when did her personal medical records become a matter of public importance?

It seems to me that a lot of boundaries have been crossed within this story and not all of them were crossed by the main characters in the drama here. The press, the police and the public all should be taking a peek into their own backyards! - Anwar SMK, New York, USA - July 12, 2006

With great interest, I have been following the news on media as well as some brilliant comments by several readers.

What Prof Chaudhary thinks of himself... is he the reincarnation of Vatsyayan to profess about LOVE and Julie is the Vasantsena (a prostitute) being a subject of Prof. Chaudhary? I am afraid what Vatsyayan interpreted love in a most scientific manner, Prof. Chaudhary is doing it for his lust or sex. A man can like him can stoop to any degree. Thank god he didn't have a daughter to study in Sweden otherwise he would have experimented his ideas of love even with his daughter. We have such characters in our society and Chaudhary is one of them. I would like to tell Julie that even MEERA was DIVANI OF KRISHNA and she should adopt that bhakti from Meera's life than to be a KEPT of the professor.

Please have some moral sense Prof. Chaudhary and come to terms. If you don't like your wife, divorce her and lead a life of a respected teacher where students worship you because of your knowledge and not because you have ulterior motives towards your students. Forget the high concept of teacher-student relationship.. It may sound utopian but come and face the reality. You are almost 55 and have another few years to live. Why are you ruining the life of a girl of your son and daughter's age?

My one piece of advice to the wife of Prof. Chaudhary... Don't cry and howl. You have done no wrong. Take a divorce and maintenance from Chaudhary and stay happily with your children. Chaudhary and Julie seem to love media publicity thus they are in the real sense doing "THETRAI" (a Bihari lingo). And Julie you will find much better stuff at JNU at Ganga Dhaba where all facilities are there to finish your lust. You think you will get anything out of Chaudhary. may be a PhD degree or a lecturership, but will you be able to get back your reputation? Today you are young and beautiful so Chaudhary has made you the target. Such characters will never keep you once you have lost the charm. What will happen if after 2-3 years another Julie comes more beautiful and attractive than you and more comprising than you. You will be dropped like a hot potato and may spend your entire future on GB road. - Rajiv Sinha - July 12, 2006

By welcoming the professor in college now Biharis have shown that they are not orthodox as being projected by Media. I wish happy life for love couple. - P. K. Tyagi  - July 13, 2006

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