This is the time of the year, a boy feels like a man when he takes his first step into a college. He might have dreamed about this for months. He might have already said good-bye to his uniforms and school bags. Though he has got lot of expectation, he also has the unknown fear towards Ragging.
Definition : "The systematic ritual physical and psychological abuse of freshmen or other juniors by their seniors in an educational setup."
Many seniors have justified ragging saying it develops interaction with their juniors and vice versa. After going thru' this couple of time in my life-time, I completely agree with this as I have been very close with my senior who ragged my most. May be I'm lucky but there were cases reported in the past where we lost few life.
College is not just a place to have fun with but also it is where one learn to develop their professional skills. It will help to have a great professional career. Properly executed 'Ragging' can assist here.
Ragging is a double edged knife that should be handled carefully. We shouldn't completely ban Ragging. Instead, we should drawn a line to define the limits and closely monitor the trespassers.
Strict 'No' to physical or mental harassment and monetary exploitations on juniors.
Jul 16, 2007
Ragging - Good or Bad?
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Namasthe Gowri Shankar: You wrote "We shouldn't completely ban Ragging. Instead, we should draw a line to define the limits and closely monitor the trespassers."
How is it possible? Honestly, I am curious to know how anyone can police ragging.
My experience [thank God, I was the first batch REC, Calicut 1961] that nobody cared for the baby-face fresh youngsters.
Professors and lecturers joked about the plight of those youngsters. At the same time, few use these youngsters to act out their sexual pervasions.
Remember these youngsters live with their seniors in hostels for 24-7, far away from their loved ones. So they at the mercy of the seniors all the time.
Once a very “handsome” boy from Andhra told me with tears in his eyes that he will not join REC fearing a one senior who has shown an “unusual” interest in his BODY.
Normally, after a month or two everything is forgotton, but at the same time nobody bothered about the mental and physical damage done to the youngsters.
In 1967, I wrote an article about this in THE HINDU, Madras and that is why I am curious to know, how we can we can police Ragging?
Thanks for reading.
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