ragging

Aman Kacharoo..the name itself will refresh your memory about his death due to ragging in a medical college in himachal pradesh in march 2009.he died of severe injuries after being brutually beaten up by his seniors who were drunk.a bright student.aman wanted to be a doctor.currently his murderers or rather his seniors are behind the bars for charge of murder.

Talk about ragging with someone and the first argument put forth is that it helps the seniors and freshers to interact. Of course, it does! It is also true that in almost all cases, there are some questions that are never answered:

Why does the fresher need to be humiliated for this interaction to take place?

Are we so uncivilised that we have not found a better way of interaction with the freshers in so many years?

Why is this interaction one-sided? i.e. why doesn't the senior interact with the fresher at the same level as the fresher?

Why should there be dress codes? Why should a fresher bow to seniors? Is this how our culture teaches us to interact?

i am convinced that all reasons propounded for ragging are mere hogwash. Introspect deeply and you will find that none of the arguments that are put forth in favour of ragging actually hold ground.

currently there is no central law on ragging.however it is banned in all states in india.ragging is a punishable offence.but despite these measures,some people have the guts to humiliate others in a very bad way.

today.if seniors are caught ragging their juniours,they have to pay a fine of Rs.2.55 lakh.also.if the matter is very serious.the college can be disaffiliated from the university.

also.during the pre admission procedure parents are made to sign a document that ther child will not indulge in a menace like ragging.

there are such extreme cases of ragging where young girls and boys are exploited and made to dstrip.have sex,dance in bars...publishing nude pictures.

i hope ragging is curbed with the new laws being introduced.a new ray of light towards a better society...