Ogling and goggling

Published December 30, 2013

(EDITORIAL): Eyes, Look your last! Such is the veto of the Principal of the Agra College who has threatened to rusticate boys discovered staring at fair co-eds. Lovers of the beautiful can now expect a Disabling Act forbidding the use of goggles within the college precincts. There is, however, never born a daughter of Eve who is not flattered by male attention, and Agra girls may not elect to turn informers against their adorers. Can it be true in Agra of all places, where Shah Jahan made imperishable his love for Mumtaz, that new love must pine at them beyond tomorrow? To stay the wandering eye is not to stay the wandering mind, and eternity can be in a fleeting glance. For the Principal of the Agra College as he proposes to fight the course of nature, the interception of looks must offer a thankless task and it would be wise as perhaps necessary if he himself were sometimes to turn a blind eye.

In the pursuit of beauty, youth would deny that the Biblical injunction to pluck out the eye if it offendeth could ever be applied to their particular case. (Dawn, Delhi)

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