Dear Malvika, I am a 20-year-old boy studying in the bachelor’s level. I am not much of a talkative person and don’t like sharing my issues with anyone. I rather would share my feeling in a diary but I find it difficult to share it with anyone else.

If there is one thing that everybody does, it is judging people. Knowingly or unknowingly, every one of us has some conceptions about things around us, especially girls. Numerous social parameters have been set to judge a girl -- from the way she dresses, to the way she talks or behaves, from how many guy friends she has to how sexually expressive she is. If a girl is modern, bold and talkative, chances are that she will be taken as an easy girl and, in many cases, gets termed ‘characterless’ for the choices she makes. But who is ‘characterless’, a girl who chooses to live on her own terms or the society that judges her character on the basis of her choices?

KATHMANDU, March 7: The government has issued circulars to bodies under it to address only the persons of the age group of 16 - 40 years as youth.