Remedy to Campus Ragging

Did you ever get rag by your seniors? Or did you ever rag your juniors? What do you think about ragging? Does ragging should be banned in college campuses? However, why do students rag? Who started this ragging? Like this, there are so many questions pop-up in mind whenever we hear a tragedy ragging case.

Ragging is becoming a new nuisance in the college campuses, nowadays. Earlier, it was considered as a light teasing event and once that is over, students who participated in this event used to throw parties to the juniors whom they ragged. At the end, every one used to benefit from this ragging event. Now, the situation has changed. Students are showing the villain part of their mindset during these ragging events. Juniors, whose parents pay huge amounts of fees to the colleges for their higher studies, are forced to undergo this horrific, terror, and shocking event even they do not want to, but to just keep their parents happy by not abandoning the course.

The buck does not stop there. These juniors, who experienced these horrific ragging experiences, become seniors next year. Although they suffered a lot in the hands of their sadist seniors, yet, these people continue the tradition on the incoming juniors, thinking that they are taking revenge against their past horrific experiences. This cycle continues…!

If one goes through the records of tragic deaths happened due to ragging, one can see that most of these tragedies happened to people who have been pursuing technical-related courses. These students who always deal with machines, equipment, etc, and not exposed to Arts subjects, which should have been the part of their curriculum but not, build a certain kind of monster mindset of their own. With this kind of snubbed immature mindset, one cannot do positive things in life. The social relations part of the mind goes underdeveloped. Finally, when the individual with this kind of mindset arrives on the scene to rag a soft-spoken, gullible, innocent junior, the ruckus attitude in him/her gets a ‘high’ and s/he does ragging in such a way that the whole situation ends in tragedy.

The only and easy way to end ragging is to introduce the Arts subjects in the curriculum of all the students irrespective of what they are studying i.e., Engineering, Medicine, etc. By studying Arts, one knows how s/he should behave in the society, and what is expected of him/her, etc. Other subjects won’t teach all these things.

This blog advises everyone to be a human FIRST, then whatever you want to, NEXT.