Genuine story of illicit affair between Peradeniya married professor and female student
A piece of news has circulated within University of Peradeniya recently about a romance that has flowered between a professor who has won a popular name in rupavahini religious programmes and a female student. Another mentor at the same university has provided an explanation to a newspaper in this respect.The letter published in that connection by professor Saliya Kularatna is as follows:
'Certain people have looked at that incident in a conventional ,odd manner while some others treated it on a human angle. Whatever it is, that particular incident has motivated women to boost their sensitivity more and for some women who live by flaunting their learnedness on the crown of their heads to turn back and look at themselves and thereby draw a deep example from it.
He was a professor who had a dashing personality with a smart look. Let's call him 'Ratnayaka'. Professor Ratnayaka was a scholar who had grasped his field of education very well and had studied the principles relevant to it quite well. He was a mentor who engaged in many field researches within the framework of external society relevant to his subject and coached his students in a clever manner.
However, professor Ratnayaka's wife was someone who was entirely different; living with modern social dialogues adorning her mentality. She was a female who was very much interested in feminism and publicly announced that woman is henceforth not a fondling item of man or male. She went on to say that women such as Yasodhara, Pattini and Sita found in ancient literature were actually fictitious characters created in the past. Those women who started wailing in devotion and assumed that those men were noble when those men abandoned their domestic homes all of a sudden are women who were fools by birth. She even expressed ideas to infer that when Palanga the playboy was having erotic pleasure with a whore, the illustration of ignorant, unintelligent women like Pattini who was dedicated to him has thus contributed towards misleading this society. The professor's wife who said that both man and woman are similar and that the only difference is the difference in sex; most cordially reminded her husband when the latter came home, saying "If you want tea ... you can go to the kitchen and make it". Even when preparing food she recruited the husband equally to take part in those activities. The professor too who became accustomed to this way of life personally consoled himself and resolved to carry on life in that fashion. In the meantime, a certain incident which took place in a nearby place paved the way to making this accustomed way of living of the professor ... change.
He had been engaging in a field research in the company of his students, practically involved in matters relevant to the study. At such a moment at tea time or lunch time the desert which the students brought with them they had been sharing among them and in the process the professor has had a cup of tea at a closeby kiosk. He next got down a lunch packet through a worker or a villager.
A certain female student who was observing this scene with eyes open then went up to her mentor and picking up courage inquired about it. "Why sir, didn't you bring lunch?" "No my child ... to bring lunch from home ... there isn't such an environment in our home". "Aney sir, if you don't misunderstand me I'll bring and give you a lunch packet every day", she made a pledge in that manner.
The feeling that the professor had about this charming young girl who bestowed such a devotion towards him gradually developed into an affection. It did not take much time for her to develop some feeling like love towards her honourable mentor. Both of them ultimately turned into lovers with various forms of gossip going the rounds. The love that kindled within their hearts then began to express itself in a physical manner too, almost without their knowledge. Every time the student returned after spending time in the company of her adorable distinguished mentor, there were signs observed akin to a romantic lover ... both in her clothing and countenance. This information fell on the ears of the professor's feminist wife unavoidably. Unfortunately, though she spoke about feminism, on this occasion she did not come forward to liberate the student concerned.
"That girl won't get away from me!" she began to boast. The professor's wife confronted the helpless girl and proceeded to pull her by her hair and beat her by expressing a barrage of obscene words typical of women harassment. The professor who witnessed this scene made the following statements by referring to books and other material at his disposal. "You said that men and women are alike. But both those two types are different. In this biological world those two types have been created to love each other. Now in that case, ways of behaviour and a host of characteristics come forth from within her and which are akin to her. Even in man it is the same. In such instances each other should adhere to each other without harassing one another. It is not feasible to artificially change what is native to oneself. I saw the genuine woman in the girl that I got. So don't harass her! Let me live with her".