Reader’s Digest India – July 2019

What do you do when

teaching math to co-

llege students, year after

year, gets deathly bor-

ing? Spice up your cla-

sses a bit by giving love

lessons in the form of

math equations instead.

In March this year,

Charan Singh, assistant

professor in a govern-

ment college in Karnal,

Haryana, was found

lecturing girls about

the difference between

friendship, attraction,

crush and love in his

mathematics class.

A video shot sneakily

by the students in the

class shows Singh

explaining these and

some other concepts in

the form of equations:

èFriendship = Close-

ness − Attraction

èLove = Closeness +

Attraction

èRomantic love =

Friendship + Closeness

+ Attraction

èCrush = Attraction

• Closeness
  While the girls didn’t
  seem to object to the
  lesson, a Karnal-based
  social activist took um-
  brage at this and de-
  manded the professor’s

34 july 2019 illustration by Raju Epuri

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