Optic Apologies......

A  friend,  (a woman),  went to see the King Kothi Women's College in Hyderabad. As she wandered around stunned by the history, architecture and the environs,  and took some keepsake photographs, she was accosted, accused of "loitering" without permission,  told that the college was no a "sight seeing"  exhibition place, but was a place of study.   And asked to leave.

In her own words, she was "thrown out".

While one could envision an alternative scenario, where a conversation with a higher degree of decency would have led to  some enlightening meetings and discussions between two academics,  it was not to be.

 Different eyes, different sights.  Some eyes see, but cannot see.  And the optic nerve apologizes. 

"How dare you climb and litter and poke and click us at the University of Heights?" said the mountain, but no one stopped or even asked permission. "How dare you step in without permission, wave your hands about, strew trash, spout diesel, deposit bodies, dam me, and click, at the University of Flow?" said the river, but no one heard or even asked permission. "How dare you trespass into my jungle from behind glass windows and jeep railings, spying with binoculars assortedly shooting, sometimes with weapons, interfere in my social set up and family time and click at the University of Wildlife?" said the Tiger, but they RF-id-ed him and no one listened or even asked permission.

"How dare you interfere with my privacy, spy on me, deface me, defile me, hurt me molest me, even kill me, and shamelesly click me at the University of Life?" said the Woman so they mourned her birth, ignored her death, passed a law and still no one read it. And so she, a mature woman went to a college, respectful and quiet admiring the Structures of Knowledge, History on every wall, Geography in the gardens and the lands, Architecture celebrating its parents, and clicked, The Kothi Women's College. They rushed, they ruled, and said she loitered, and asked her to go away. Having sight was not a sufficient reason to see. Different rules for man made edifices, clearly.....