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There's a new rule in my campus- girls, specifically those belonging to my Hall, can't go out after 11 pm; if they are out after 11, they can't come back in, and have to stay out till 5 am. Well, I should be fair, the original rule was meant for the entire campus, all Halls, boys' and girls' alike. But somehow the administration only chose to implement it in ours.

I am not surprised. It is so typically Kgpian that I am really not surprised. The hypocrisy in pretending that the rule is actually meant for all, and not just girls, and that it would soon be implemented in the guys' Halls too; the sheer insensitivity and irresponsibility in forcing a girl to stay out till 5 am, even if she is 15 minutes late in coming back; cutting off the girls from the late-night facilities in the campus(read the Reading Room & the Night Canteen), not caring whether she has an assignment to submit for which her entire group,which might (and will) include guys, needs to sit down and discuss; all this is all so typically Kgpian. I don't even expect them to understand that she might just want to take a walk with her friends. A girl roaming around at night!! I can only imagine what their ultra-conservative minds would think of a girl like her, a girl like me.

I like my freedom. I am a 22-year old adult, and I like to be the one who takes my life's decisions, I like to be the one who decides whether it is good for me to venture out at this time of the night or not. More than anything, I like to think that I live in a free country which guarantees equality to all. Really, if this rule were implemented on everyone, guys and girls both, then I probably would not have had such difficulty in accepting it.

So the only alternative left for me is to break this rule, 'cos rules can only bind us so long as we let them. Once we learn to just stop caring for them, no matter what the consequences, we can easily take that walk after 11 pm.