Originally posted by: koolsadhu1000
Well , he was the most handsome Krishna I saw TODATE . Very handsome and naughty .Vimla Patil's son in law he became and she is a feminist .😃 ,. Niks Im gonna tell u MY thoughts on ragging one day . U set me thinking .In my book , and daily commentary , I decided to find a night to write an article on it . Not just reply u ..u see , these posts get lost . I want to tell u everything I feel . I have considered ur points deeply . I understand ur young mind and wat ur saying fully .Have been thru college so I know , the need to socialise and be accepted , how great it is . Yet , I want to point some things out . Hope I find the time .
That Mahabharata was the best one I saw. After that 2 versions came, both were bad. Ekta Kapoor's one was horrid. It looked like enactment of some Egyptian drama, all those strange clothes they wore.
Kools, you have a feminist circle or what????? 😆
You know Kools why I didn't persist about that ragging thing that day? Cos I understood it is difficult to make people believe that I actually had a good experience, that my juniors ran for me while I was in hospital and they have fun with me. There have been so many horror stories, that this harmless fun- is evil now. Just like dowry actually started as the bride's parent giving gifts to thier daughter voluntarily as sign of love (I'd read that it started with Parvati's parents giving her lots of gifts at the time of marriage) - but ended up as a horrific crime- that way.
I realised that even if my- and countless others experiences have been good- it is difficult to convince people that raggers are not really bad, and if done in a limit, it can actually be good for you. Cos the horrible stories have degraded this whole thing. Debate is actually useless. That is why I didn't even try and justify that thing- the whole time I said, I'm just trying to say a ragger is not necessarily a villain- not advocating ragging- using my people's experience as an example.
Its the same thing in my house also. every year, Mom and Dad say don't rag juniors, poor children they are. But I laugh like a Ravan, and say of course I will. And you know what- I was touched one day when one junior actually sent me a message (she was sick and I'd taken her to hospital and talked non stop to her)- that for the first time I felt like I was with a sibling- you don't choose your family, you fight with your siblings- but they make you feel good and love you and you learn to love them back. It was so touching. That was 2 years ago. I still haven't deleted that message- so touched I was.
That day when you said, not everyone's experience is so good, I decided to look up in the internet- and found blogs filled with ragging experiences- mostly engineering and medical ones- people ROFLing about their ragging days and remembering fondly how memorable they were.
And so I decided not to debate any more on this. Those who have had a good experience will always defend it. Those who have seen the horrific side of it, they will always hate it. Its just like believing the presence of God in an idol, if you believe he is there in it, even 100 proofs can't move you. If you don't have faith, a single scientific proof is sure to sway you away. And so just as we condemn dowry, maybe we should condemn ragging too, so that some order is retained. But my point is the same- all raggers are not villains. Depends on what one considers ragging- unleashing the animal in you- or having a bit of harmless fun for breaking the ice.
So lets call it a truce kools. I really don't think we will come at a conclusion. I don't have any big lines to say or heavy duty quotes to make, I just have experiences of a number of people- lots and lots of them. Of course I would gladly like to know your views on the same. But trust me kools, its not a 'i was abused so i will abuse type of thing.' I was ragged, but was never abused. I did ragging, but I never abused.
Edited by nikitagmc - 14 years ago
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