Menace of Ragging in Schools and Colleges
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The shocking death of 19-year-old Aman Kachroo sharply reminded the nation of our inability to curb the menace of ragging in institutions of learning, despite the recurrence of incidents that result in injuries, attempted suicides, and even death. To make indefensible suggestions that this habitual intimidation of junior students is a way of breaking the ice and fostering fellow feeling reflects utter insensitivity in the face of such tragic incidents.
Ragging or hazing is no gentle rite of passage but a ritualized form of torture that can cause severe psychological and physical injury. The prevalence of the phenomenon and the damage it can do has been reinforced by reports of other incidents of attempted suicide after being ragged by seniors.
In early 1990s, ragging was recognized as a problem and since then it has been debated and discussed to find a solution. It seems the authorities have always ignored to understand the hidden psychological mysteries associated with this menace and have not moved much from the point, where we were 10 or 20 years back. In an attempt to look for a quick solution they have perhaps focused only on the law and order aspect of ragging but ignored to probe its psychological side.
It is very difficult to comprehend, that though ragging has taken so many innocent lives and ruined so many bright careers, it is perhaps the only social and human rights problem in the world in which the victim himself/herself becomes the perpetrator of the crime. It is beyond comprehension how a victim who is tormented badly makes his abuser his best pal in a short span of time and starts to believe and practice the same custom on his juniors.
Actually, there are a set of myths, mindset and brainwashing involved with ragging which explain how it translates into a strong belief system which can be called as a psychology behind this evil. Some of the misunderstandings that support
The shocking death of 19-year-old Aman Kachroo sharply reminded the nation of our inability to curb the menace of ragging in institutions of learning, despite the recurrence of incidents that result in injuries, attempted suicides, and even death. To make indefensible suggestions that this habitual intimidation of junior students is a way of breaking the ice and fostering fellow feeling reflects utter insensitivity in the face of such tragic incidents.
Ragging or hazing is no gentle rite of passage but a ritualized form of torture that can cause severe psychological and physical injury. The prevalence of the phenomenon and the damage it can do has been reinforced by reports of other incidents of attempted suicide after being ragged by seniors.
In early 1990s, ragging was recognized as a problem and since then it has been debated and discussed to find a solution. It seems the authorities have always ignored to understand the hidden psychological mysteries associated with this menace and have not moved much from the point, where we were 10 or 20 years back. In an attempt to look for a quick solution they have perhaps focused only on the law and order aspect of ragging but ignored to probe its psychological side.
It is very difficult to comprehend, that though ragging has taken so many innocent lives and ruined so many bright careers, it is perhaps the only social and human rights problem in the world in which the victim himself/herself becomes the perpetrator of the crime. It is beyond comprehension how a victim who is tormented badly makes his abuser his best pal in a short span of time and starts to believe and practice the same custom on his juniors.
Actually, there are a set of myths, mindset and brainwashing involved with ragging which explain how it translates into a strong belief system which can be called as a psychology behind this evil. Some of the misunderstandings that support