Off-topic, but on Theme

May be it's too soon to say this, but Paanch hits some very familiar notes! Necessary dramatisation apart, ragging is definitely a serious issue in many an institute in India.
The clash of popular institutes, chances to receive the best education, different aspirations, competitions, heartaches, heartbreaks, friendships and bullies, class/money/political privileges, politics-it looks like this show has applied every ingredient.👍🏼

However, what struck me the most is the core of this concept-ragging. It exists very much. We too have faced it but either it did never go too far like in this show, or we put up with such occasional ragging incidents, surviving those till our next batch arrived as freshers. 🥱


During my freshers it was quite a mild one, involving freshers to perform or pose randomly as per the seniors' instructions. It was a lot of fun... until someone among us created a huuuge fuss, screamed and what not, upon being asked to do something weird! Then she stormed out of the room and many others started to get nervous about the possible reaction of the seniors. Our seniors gravely remarked that our class is sooo bad-mannered and hot-tempered..that they will be back to teach us some civility next day! 😕

Two days after, we realized that the girl who stormed out was actually one of our seniors, planted as a prank pulled on us by their class 😲 😆

Do any of you has such experiences regarding this? Good experiences or bad, please share those then!

hi,

well i am yet in school but in brother's institute on only birthdays the roomie and himself get really hard birthday kicks. he is finding ways to escape it. its not ragging but just a tradition for all the boys. they made one guy cry nd he couldn't get up from bed the next day! i have told him that if anything like that happens with you i will definitely file a case against them. He has never been involved in such things.

In BA 1st year, we were made to do some really silly and kiddish stuff. They weren't offensive or anything, but just plain silly, like propose a senior in a funny way! I didn't even find those funny and very well remember being bored. 🥱 But some of my classmates were on the brink of nervous breakdowns. Later on I remember I made a junior boy cry! 😲 I had asked him to dance to 'kaliyon ka chaman' and the guy started crying. Prolly the one thing I regret in my life. My friends enjoyed but I felt so bad that I swore never to even 'mildly' tease a junior on freshers.

I am an engineer here and have seen some of the awful forms of ragging with my own eyes.

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That's sad Niharika... but I feel in some colleges ragging doesn't go to such extent... but in hostels it's really bad.. During my college our seniors were very friendly... they simply asked our introduction & to sing a song, etc... Thankfully I never experienced such form of ragging...

Originally posted by: misty85

That's sad Niharika... but I feel in some colleges ragging doesn't go to such extent... but in hostels it's really bad.. During my college our seniors were very friendly... they simply asked our introduction & to sing a song, etc... Thankfully I never experienced such form of ragging...

Thanks Mamta,
I can't really explain how bad I feel each time I remember him as we were kinda contemporaries and the way I finished studies, the kind of job I have now and everything else could have been his as well, had it not been for that incident.
Hence I always try to discourage this awful malpractice, however light or harmless it may be. Human psyches differ like fingers of the hand and you can never be sure of the impact the incident has on the victim's mind.

I really hope the CVs of Paanch do justice to the issue they are portraying and help in curbing this menace in every way possible.

Originally posted by: NiharikaMishra

Thanks Mamta,
I can't really explain how bad I feel each time I remember him as we were kinda contemporaries and the way I finished studies, the kind of job I have now and everything else could have been his as well, had it not been for that incident.
Hence I always try to discourage this awful malpractice, however light or harmless it may be. Human psyches differ like fingers of the hand and you can never be sure of the impact the incident has on the victim's mind.

I really hope the CVs of Paanch do justice to the issue they are portraying and help in curbing this menace in every way possible.

This should be stopped... & college authorities & teachers play a major role in this... I never experienced such thing in college... at that time police was posted in every part of the college & there were flying squads to check seniors... in fact seniors were supervised more than the freshers...😆 but in hostel it's a different thing... thankfully I was not staying in hostel... but when govts started taking measures to curb ragging this trend changed... even my friends used to tell me that they didn't face anything serious in hostel...