India, March 17 -- I met a man over tea - obviously for the matrimonial alliance. Apparently, a teacher is too divine in the image to invite someone for coffee!

My first day at school and I was completely awed by the impeccably pleated saree of my class teacher. I remember how I immediately stereotyped her representation, and my drawing book from my first year at school still stands a witness to this representation.

I was not able to draw the bi-symmetry of the human body well enough then and yet the saree I dressed my teacher up in was freckleless, fully symmetrical (drawn using a scale) with the number of pleats tightly held together.

As I grew, my knowledge of biological symmetry improved, but the perfection of the pleats of my teac...