16 Jun 2022 | 05:26am IST
IMPACT AND EFFECT OF RAGGING
JOSEPH LEWIS D’SILVA
Many say that some beginner-students are very delicate. They hesitate to talk to
seniors and especially in new places, so to make them familiar with this new
surrounding, an organised fun had started in mild form like asking the fresher’s
name, address, marks etc, for juniors to develop friendliness. But now this opening
up for new college entrant has turned bad; it has taken the nature of harassment;
and some learners do not have psychological capacity to withstand ragging.
Some seniors think that troubling their juniors is a form of entertainment. It
shows their evil nature when they take advantage of another individual and enjoy
seeing them in pain. The sufferings of a sufferer is pleasure of the persecutor.
Besides that, the victim of ragging can air their grievances about it to the head of
the institution; and authorities should take appropriate action. They can quote
rule book to the torturer and enforce the rules in letter; because in freethinking
democracy the right to swing one’s 몭st ends where another’s nose begins. But if
authorities wear earplugs and neglect their duty to check the wrong, ‘Satan’ starts
dancing with glee as tormentors take advantage of mildness to harass juniors.
Authorities should know that - ‘to see the wrong and not to correct it is want of
courage’.
In India we have: India’s National Anti-Ragging Helpline to help students in
distress due to ragging; it can be reached through email and a 24-hour toll-free
number. And complaint can be registered to the local police also about ragging. If
the remedy is available easily, why fear the bully?
junior
Ragging can be physical, by asking the new entrant to do an act which such
student will not, in the ordinary course, be willingly do. Sometimes the seniors
force the junior to over drink liquor or get high, by using drugs which could lead
the victim to be addicted to it; thus spoiling victim’s life and career. Ragging may
also cause hurt by dangerous weapon which might result in either serious injury
or death. Secondly, ragging can also be a verbal torture by teasing, humiliating the
individual with a demoniac laughter from some seniors who are born with teasing
tongues.
If ragging is not terminated at any point, the victims get so scared that they are not
able to focus on their studies; so, it affects their career; the sufferer may even quit
the college education due to shame; may suffer from depression, isolation,
demoralization; and even commit suicide.
Often, the victims do not inform their parents, teachers and do not even lodge
police complaints, due to fear of consequences from their seniors. Victim’s parents
can tell by the voice or face of their children that something is wrong. They get
worried about their child’s emotional or physical condition. Ragging does not just
affect the victims and their parents; it also has an effect on the institution when
ragging comes in public eye.
Ragging is a disgraceful practice wherein the senior students get easy targets to
satiate their own wicked sadistic pleasures. This inhuman practice should be
stopped before more and more innocent students become victim of it and more
and more educational institutes are degraded by it.
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