DOTW: College life=Ragging?

Hey Khushi!Nice topic!

there are different kinds of ragging.

Aha! Bang on topic Kushiji!
I haven't been ragged though I am in college (except for a little something I wouldn't call ragging)
Yeah well like Lekha before me mentioned before me there are two kinds of ragging.
1-This are small innocent pranks like she said bhakra banana.
This is actually okay. Mostly seniors do this by assessing the nature of the junior. Jithna zyada attitude uthna hi zyada ragging.
But it won't be anything too harmful.
2- The kind involving physical violence. ABSOLUTELY UNENTERTAINABLE!

In the first kind some people learn to stand up to the seniors eventually. Some give in at the first sign of pressure and then seniors mostly don't trouble them.
Eventually these go into creating a bond between seniors and juniors.
We had a our First freshers day last year and we seniors gave the juniors some pretty hilarious pranks.
It wasn't anything too humiliating and the limits weren't crossed.
Most of the juniors we ragged finally end up being a good friend.

The second kind of ragging is what results in news of bodily harm to fresher students and seriously seniors who do it are mindless hooligans.
That kind is what led to strict anti-ragging laws in India which prevents a student from asking another's name in a tone that causes displeasure.

As to why why seniors feel the need to rag I have no idea. Personally I haven't ragged anyone but as a group yes. But never to the point of humiliation or hurt.
And most juniors nowadays are highly capable at giving tit for tat. Honestly!
The thing is most seniors want to give back what they got. It's like juniors are meant to respect seniors.
In that respect the batch I belong to follows give and take policy.
No respect unless they earned it.
Mein thou personally usually stay out of seniors tracks.
A few of them I respect, few are good friends, few I don't like and to few am indifferent.

Personal experience was not much.
On our first day in hostel , at about 11, the super senior batch of our college called us to the common room.
I remember being half asleep.
The first impression I usually give a person is of being rude.
Something that has got a connection with height and size and the fact that I don't open up until you get close to me.
So just imagine what it would have been when I am half asleep.
They were asking us questions and we were supposed to answer without smiling.
I obviously didn't smile.
This would've appeared as double attitude to all watching me.
One senior told me to drop my attitude and another at the end told me I can smile a bit.
And when I smiled thanks to mu grouchy state it appeared as a mocking smirk.
So yeah I almost dug my own grave.
But that was the last, no seniors ever ragged us again.
I was afraid of a few of them for a while but now its long gone.
I am a senior now and thanks to my looks juniors are naturally frightened of me lol!
And the one who told me to drop my attitude, well she is my cousin bhabhi now ! :D

^ I will get to reading your reply soon 😳

^^^agree with u khushi...overdoing may happen unintentionally!! Ragging can become pretty bad for the emotional people!

@Khushi...
A line can always be drawn.
Yes it is a thin line.
But nonetheless a line can be drawn.
You can usually say a person is emotional or not very easily.
Just by the way they answer you when you ask them their name.
Easily emotional people tend to be highly tensed.
At that point seniors usually stop.
They don't ask anything apart from the name, place, batch...
But yeah I can't give an authentication of this as there is no real ragging in my college.
At least not amongst girls.
No pranks are ever played on juniors here.
Boys thou are different case, unki tho apni marzi hain jaha kisi aur ki nahin chalthi.
Our batch boys used to get ragged until half of second year I guess.
But the thing with boys is they never mind.
Girls on the other hand are far more fragile.
They aren't usually ragged much.
The bold ones do get ragged but the fragile ones are left alone after one time.
They usually tend to cry upon being asked their name itself.

@Monal...
I do agree with you that the person ragging may unintentionally go overboard
But most sensible seniors know where to draw the line.
Ragging in reality is not exactly like we see in television.
There are worse raggings .
But mostly what seniors do is ask your name place and sing a song
Or like it happened on freshers day at my place.
Ask some questions about love and all.
Or ask the person to make an imaginary omelette.
But if at all the seniors had seen that these would adversely effect yhe students they wouldn't have done it.
These were only done to people who could withstand this.
The bolder ones

Originally posted by: FeistySoul

@Monal...
I do agree with you that the person ragging may unintentionally go overboard
But most sensible seniors know where to draw the line.
Ragging in reality is not exactly like we see in television.
There are worse raggings .
But mostly what seniors do is ask your name place and sing a song
Or like it happened on freshers day at my place.
Ask some questions about love and all.
Or ask the person to make an imaginary omelette.
But if at all the seniors had seen that these would adversely effect yhe students they wouldn't have done it.
These were only done to people who could withstand this.
The bolder ones