By Girija Madhavan
Reading about student life now in newspapers and magazines, the mind harks back my own days in Maharaja’s College in the University of Mysore in 1955-58; and how different it was for women then. We joined the institution as students, equal with the young men. But the social rules were very different for us then. We had to mind the rules of speech, dress and deportment of “Proper Young Ladies” at all times. We hardly ever spoke to the men students. Stories related by aunts and cousins of previous generations of their co-educational experiences in Mysore and elsewhere, reinforced this belief.
