Effects Of Ragging Essay

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NAME: K.SAI KUMAR REG.NO: 15BEC0854 RAGGING Ragging is a practice similar to hazing in educational institutions. The word is mainly used in our country and Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Ragging involves existing students bullying new students. It often takes a malignant from where in the newcomers may be subjected to psychological or physical torture. Ragging in India is a damaging form of interaction of the seniors in college or school with the juniors, newcomers or first years. It is similar to but not the same as hazing in the united states, it is not an initiation. It involves insults (simple or suggestive sexual, sarcastic and even physical),running …show more content…

The situation sometimes turns so bad that it compels the ragging victim to commit suicide. A section of insensitive students feel that light ragging should be allowed in educational institutions, while some are totally opposed to the idea and demand stricter punishment for those involved in it. Now we can an example who died through ragging. In the month of last July an engineering student, Rishikeshwari, a B.Arch first year student in Acharya Nagarjuna University committed suicide, after she was unable to face the torture from her seniors. After a detailed inquiry by the police and other officials, a suicide note and Rishikeshwari’s personal diary was found out. In the diary, it is specified that, she was being tortured by the seniors regularly. Rishikeshwari specified that, she was forced to walk in the corridor semi nude and that was captured by the senior girls in the camera and passed on the video to other male senior students in the

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