Comments on: Ragging

By: AM I A HINDU? Best Seller

AM I A HINDU? Best Seller — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:58:37 +0000

Ragging is a very sickening CRIMINAL ACT.

It is bullying and many use that an excuse to abuse innocent youngsters. Some even sexually abuse youngsters in the name of ragging.

It is cruel and it has to be stopped. Students who indulge in ragging should be criminally prosecuted. School and University authorities who allow Ragging also should be criminally prosecuted.

Let them be thrown into jails where they will be subjected to the same treatment they gave to innocent victims by fellow prisoners.

In 1967, I wrote an article about this in THE HINDU, Madras and I cannot believe this is still going on in Indian schools and universities. What a shame!!

By: Alka

Alka — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:48:26 +0000

wacko welcome and thanks for visiting my blog. I am so glad that you guys don’t consider it “smart” to rag juniors.

Manish, ha ha ha expulsion from your college? Someone ought to get his head examined if they resort to severe ragging.

Praney, like saas bahu theory. Very few dare to break away.

AmitL, you are right. But how many got this sense of “right spirit.” Really it is similar to saas bahu syndrome.

By: AmitL

AmitL — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:49:47 +0000

LOL at it being similar to the saas-bahu syndrome…come to think of it,it is!

By: AmitL

AmitL — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:48:52 +0000

Hi,F-16,err,Alka..well,it’s good to know that you broke the trend,definitely…even I feel that it’s just the ‘tit for tat’ theory that causes this ragging phenomenon to continue-the seniors feel that because they were ragged,they need to take revenge…and,the cycle continues…but,then, if ragging is done in the right spirit, it’s a nice way to welcome newbies into college..and,that’s a big IF.

By: Praney

Praney — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:28:41 +0000

Really a much-talked-done-nothing issue Alka.

I think only student assosiations (if they themself could keep it off from politics) can remove that evil. Healthy intorduction part as Manish wrote should always stay there but strongest action should be taken against the line crossers. A good number of actions would encourge newcomers to stand against ragging.

Sometimes I think what kind of mindsets these jerks have developed to get youngesters killed and how ??

By: Manish

Manish — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:52:58 +0000

In our college, ragging in its current form didn’t exist, but we did have something healthy called “introduction” which was fun for both the parties.

Even today, I remember the my “introduction” days fondly, not least because quite of it was done in Girls’s Hostel

By: wacko

wacko — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:52:30 +0000

well said alka!
i hafta agree with you here. Ragging is more like a venegance or grudge. But, seeing the present state of affairs in my college, I am quite satisfied by the way it has been curtailed now. I was ragged too. But, I made a point to not rag my juniors and hence instill the same thoughts in my juniors too. And, I can very well see the effects now!

By: Alka

Alka — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:22:34 +0000

Sudipta What a person you are. We need more people like you. I don’t know much about mother-in-law/daughter-in-law angle, but it seems a bit similar.

By: Sudipta Chatterjee

Sudipta Chatterjee — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:43:06 +0000

Oh, I’m proud to say that I stood up against everyone else when I moved into the second year and our time to rag the juniors came — I had a huge debate with everyone, and I am proud to say that it did bring the ragging down a bit.

That mother-in-law/daughter-in-law angle is new!