Love notes

I was watching Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) the other day and discovered that a university in Kolkata was introducing Love as a course from the academic year starting 2014.

My mind instantly went into an overdrive about what they would teach in this course:

- Different kinds of love - towards your parents, siblings, spouses and pets
- The difference between love and lust
- The difference between love and compassion
- Bollywood love
- Violent love (horror stories of love)
- Unrequited love
- Music and Love

And the list can go on...

Say if I took up the course, would my qualifications read as any of these?
Mallika Harsha, Love Honours
Mallika Harsha, MSc. Love
Mallika Harsha, PhD. Love
Mallika Harsha, MA Love

Disclaimer: This an exaggeration (Love will be available as a credit course along with other unique subjects like Digital Humanties and The Physics of Everyday Life).

And looking at this, who would give me a job? Arts students find it hard enough convincing employers that English was a real subject. And that they majored in it (guilty!). :)

On a serious note, I'm all for change in society and education. But Love is an emotion, it can't be taught, in my opinion. It's an experience that is unique to every individual. I'm not sure if putting a science behind it is the smartest thing to do.

And on a completely unrelated note, this topic reminded me of a song by Shaan, in his early years, called Loveology. It captures the essence of the era it was made in - campus love, a geek cassanova and really bad graphics!

Let's hope the course does better than this song did back then. Take a look :)


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