Ragging in Colleges

**blahblah** · 7th February 2005, 10:49 AM

We all know that despite the laws and occasional steps taken by governments,ragging does exist in our colleges.I see this practice as a crime as it is intimidating, scary and leaves a new student in constant mental agony.I know students who have dropped out from college due to ragging and have some experience myself.Let's discuss.

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**jaiganes** · 7th February 2005, 11:24 AM

i agree with blahblah!

On the third day of my engineering college, I was robbed of all my money by my seniors (of a different department. my department guys were good ones) and I had to eventually walk a considerable distance before I could take an auto. I kept quiet as I did not want to get into any kind of trouble. People involved must be some mentally sick individuals. Argument by some that ragging could lead to a healthy friendship is a very weak one. The chances for that are very slim and I hate the musthafa song which has lyrics reiterating this point. I am happy that the state government and police are absolutely against this savage behaviour of Ragging or hazing by sick seniors.

**blahblah** · 7th February 2005, 11:55 AM

Since you are from B'lore,Jaiganesh,I have some funny experiences from B'lore colleges.When I joined one of these colleges,we were asked to be present at the Seniors hostel in the evening.

One guy asked me to sing the national anthem.Since I was very nervous and they were too intimidating,I forgot the verse starting with,"Janagana mangala dayaka jaya he....".I knew I forgot something but didn't know what it was.So I promptly hid my feelings,sung the last line and stopped expecting him to kick me straight away.

Imagine what the big guy did!He thought for a moment,couldn't find out what was wrong with my anthem,and says,"OK,I think that was correct,leave now".Getting back to my room,I explained to my friends what a butt head he was.

**Cindy** · 7th February 2005, 01:01 PM

The first ever incident that come to my mind is how a boy was brutally killed... this boy was in a college in B'lore... who was the youngest son of our fav teacher in our school... as the seniors couldnt have much fun on this brave guy who complained them to the principal.... (he was asked to collect the matchstick tips to the palm and burn it, to lick off the blade put on the closet etc..)... they inserted a real bullet to the dummy pistol they were using for their drama they played for some college festival...and this boy breathed his last in the stage itself..

we felt so much for that mother..and all those kids who suffer in such colleges... this incident came in most newspapers..maybe u know..!!

**Cindy** · 7th February 2005, 01:05 PM

The funniest experience was in my own college... one senior asked my classmate to enact how she would react if she see "sivarasan" (one among the Rajiv Gandhi assassinates) in person... when no one is around... this girl thought for a few seconds and slapped that senior... and screamed.."You rascal... you killed our handsome prince..ah??"... the senior was shocked for a moment and then gave her a pat..what else can she do.. when all of us including jun's and sen's were laughing loudly...

**jaiganes** · 7th February 2005, 02:36 PM

Blahblah I am currently working in Bangalore, but I am originaly from Chennai. My cousin who studied in Belgaum, used to remark that the juniors and the seniors went along very well with each other. In fact he recalls how seniors used to include juniors for the regular Goa trips that they used to undertake!!! I wish I had such seniors!!!

**Sandeep** · 7th February 2005, 05:22 PM

I had 3 light incidents of ragging.

The first was when a bunch of seniors where getting our 'introductions', they had a simple rule if you sit and answer you are showing disrespect and if you stand and answer you are trying to terrorise him. In both cases the junior is screwed. I tried to be clever and asked them should I answer siting or standing and then I was 'acting smart'

Second time I was asked to sing a song in front of all the crowd and I started shamelessly. Should I tell that the seniors begged me to stop.

Then there was this incident which some may call ragging but one that i really enjoyed. Because here the seniors where a bunch of girls who, I think, where trying to imitate their male classmates who get physical with junior girls. Anyway though I was a little worried I really enjoyed it.

**Querida** · 7th February 2005, 11:52 PM

Hey Sandeep long time no see

anyways i think there is two ways to look at the sick individuals who do ragging in either case they too in their junior years must have been humiliated and have the choice of perpetuating that feeling so that they for a few minutes feel superior or be more mature about it and see it as just a low way of showing bravado...furthermore remember how bad they felt when it happened to them...

my own experiences here in Canada are less severe mostly based on colour distinction...mostly it was rude notes passed (my back replies weren't so nice either

), threatning to beat up the student if say they sat at a particular table, spoke with certain people, criticizing clothing choice, participating in class, anything that would catch their interest i guess..i knew one gurl who always bothered my about my black socks...and it never made sense to me...i love black socks...acutally it made her angrier cause i would ignore her and just continue to talk to my friends...all these petty idiocies...mostly done by students who were taking the class for the third/fourth time...the guys just tried really hard to think of an annoying nickname or if they were desi a particular song they could sing...or just follow you around and sit at the same table you sat at...nothing worse than that...not that worse didn't not happen..i'm just glad it didn't happen to anyone i knew...

**Surya** · 8th February 2005, 12:14 AM

Well,
Ragging isn't bad unless it goes overboard right?
I went to a HS here where there was this thing caled "Freshman Fridays" Where the Seniors would Knock the freshmen into garbage cans on fridays. I had been knocked a couple times. But it was worth it when I was a senior.

No one really go hurt. I guess taht was a kind of ragging also. So it's fun until people start taking it too seriously.

**Querida** · 8th February 2005, 04:38 AM

well my experiences again on the light side and again not in college but in highschool....ragging in colleges here is now almost unheard of (must be the accumulation of nerds :P ) unless of course i guess you belong to a sports team (maybe) or you want to join a fraternity or sorority...well i don't see the appeal of such WASP for WASP places anyways and well you're kinda asking for it cause everyone knows that to join it unofficially does include ragging...not that it makes it right...