I am a 19-year-old boy. I liked a girl and asked her out recently. However, she rejected me. I was quite angry at her for this. I met her sister, one thing led to another, and I ended up kissing her sister in front of her. I regret this. What should I do to make her understand and be with me?

Name and address withheld

Actually do nothing son. You were wise. You played with the most universal emotion: which is envy. Now this other girl, the one you love and have not kissed will take to you like a duck takes to water or Kalmadi to money. Look things cannot get much worse for you: you have shown yourself to be a philanderer so the best thing is to sit back and enjoy the fame. I wouldn’t be surprised if you have both these women chasing you: and in case you want to dump any one of them, you know who to write to.

I am an MSc student. Two of my classmates are in a relationship. The girl is a friend but whenever she contacts me for study material or some other totally harmless thing her boyfriend thinks there is something going on. He threatens me even though I’ve clearly told him that I have no such intentions. I also try to avoid the girl but she just does not understand. This is really hampering my studies. Help.

Amit, Calcutta

The fact that you are studying for an MSc means you are pretty dead. Who does MSc in these days unless of course you want to seduce women by becoming a tutor or for that matter a professor? Look this girl is superbly sly. She is actually messing her boyfriend’s head: you are just the weapon she uses. My suggestion would be two-pronged: the first being quickly have an affair with her so that even if you get beaten up, at least it would have been for something worthy. The second is beat the hell out of her boyfriend but then given that you are an MSc student, valour is not something we should expect. So there…

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