Girls in love is not a new thing and has been an evergreen bollywood formula that has produced some of the biggest hits that the industry has known. A girl, A boy and Love. Sounds alluring, Right? Well that is what happened with 19-year old Manali Singh, a first year electronics engineering student in Navodaya College, Raichur. Like many college girls under the spell of bollywood romances, she too had a boyfriend and a Love-affair. A Love-affair that cost her her-life. She was in Love with Shiju, a boy studying in Navodaya Dental College, Raichur. Life was all rose until one day they had a small-fight on some petty issue and Shiju left for his hometown in Ahmedabad. Missing him after a couple of days, Manali sent him an SMS asking him to call her. Not finding any reply from Shiju, she sent him another SMS. Still no reply and she sent him another SMS and another and another until finally the count become 33. In came the reply this time that swept Manali of her feet. It read “Don’t Harass Me”. Heartbroken, she sent him a last SMS saying that she will never call him again and hung herself from a hook in her hostel room while her roommates were out for dinner.

Who is responsible for Manali’s death? Was it Shiju fault? Or is it the case of a girl, immature for her age and not strong enough to face the hardship of Love-life, which it at times demands? These are some of the questions that remains to be answered.

True-Love unlike anything else known or seen in this world, is blind. Love, be it between a man and wife or between a father and son or between kids and their grandparent or man and an animal is a complex relationship. A relationship that cannot be can be explained in a couple of lines or that of which one can be made to understand. It is a spell that can be understood only by soaking oneself in its drizzle.

In today’s IT driven world, continuous innovations are changing the very way we live our lives & this very drive can be used to provide a solution to the above mentioned problem where a concept called CIRCULAR DOUBLE LINKED LIST from the world of computer science can be used. Consider the following diagram.

Circular double linked list

A, B & C are three data items or entities connected to each other by links. Here A knows about the presence of B & C, B knows about the presence of A & C and C knows about the presence of A & B. First entity always knows about the presence last entity.

The above logic can be used for taking attendance. Consider a class with 10 students, (staring from roll number 1 to 10) diagrammatically represented below.

Each number represents a roll number

Here each student represented by numbers from 1 to 10 has two responsibilities, one is to check if the student just before him/her on the roll is present & the other is to check for the same with respect to the student just after him/her. In the above diagram student with roll number 1 check’s if student’s with roll number 2 & 10 (one before him/her and one after him/her) are present or not. Similarly the student with roll number 2 check’s for 1 & 3 (one before him/her and one after him/her), 3 checks for 2 & 4 and so on until the end where 10 checks for students with roll numbers 1 & 9. Each absentee is reported which can be cross-checked by the teacher by tallying the total number of students marked as present with the head count.

Advantages

(a) It is faster as the student’s can check & keep the information ready as to who is absent before the class starts or during the class (will take less then 1 minute). So time is saved.

(b) Each absentee is reported twice i.e. if student with roll number 2 is absent then it is reported by both i.e. roll number 1 & 3. So gives a double confirmation.

(c) The students are occupied leaving them no time to talk or have fun.

(d) There is no scope for proxies, a big plus.

Disadvantages

(a) If more than three students on consecutive rolls are absent then it cannot be used in the above form. But that won’t be a problem in colleges where the nightmare of maintaining 75-85% attendance continuously hovers over the students head.

(b) It is difficult to implement it in primary classes.

(c) It is not possible to implement this if the students are irresponsible or are not trustworthy. But we are all responsible and trustworthy people. Aren’t we?