Students' inception to any university is always a sort of fear with thrill just because of ragging, perhaps many of us find ragging as the source of enjoyment but if it is explicated generally and conventionally then it is way of humiliating juniors showing oneself in charge, making fun of others, or pretending to be cool. Many people began to defend ragging 'Fresh One's and seniors should know each other' or 'Way to prove one cool' or 'Now it's high time to take revenge' or 'You can't roll uni-life back so make the most of these moments.'
In Ned, what we have is not exactly the same as it's happening in other universities or the facts that this word ragging implies, here it is not at all bullying or deliberate attempt to pressurize mentally but means of playing with juniors, catching them and assigning some insane tasks, but sometimes it exceeds in a manner that it approaches to pockets. So it's totally on us to decide our standards either as a professional or not. No doubt it is a person's worth while asset if done in a funny, ethical and prudent manner, so it’s bearable.
This point of view is appropriately as absurd as it is sophism that ragging serves as building bridges between juniors and seniors, for this purpose we can introduce some new traditions so no need to charge this culture with irrelevant credits, there are many other ways to build communication bridges.
What's the most wide-ranging reason that students turn out to be raggers! What can I scrutinize is very simple; the most economical way to become popular, gaining consideration of juniors, making juniors anxious, competing the other groups of raggers, showing one's authority and finally the majority who blindly keep continuation of trends prevailing in our campus.
Let me explain when I was ragged I had severe sentiments to take my revenge next year, I planned with my friends how to organize ourselves in a group and how to catch some new comers but unfortunately our university took a very firm step and this year it was not possible for us to rag any one even we tried tooth and nail but we failed because there were guards every where in the university premises. Even what we were allowed to do is to do little pranks and not more than that. So there were very few incidents of ragging observed outside the university premises. We started uttering 'This is unfair, why university officials restrain ragging this time, why not during the previous years when we were ragged.' Such clamorous voices were rising from our batch and it is also true, but on the other hand we have forgotten that some one had to take initiative, if it was not our batch so there would have been some others, and might be uttering the same arguments as we were proclaiming.
Let us take a look on the history of Ragging, its visage tracks back to seven or eight century A.D in Greece, in the sports arena after years it spread to the educational campuses, by the eighteenth century, it had spread to Europe, and then it spread to America. After world war one ragging became more violent. And the British brought this Rag-Culture with them to India. It was observed in the English public schools that British established and also in the army. British inherited this to India; consequently after the partition it was transferred to Pakistan. The British call it fagging, and the Americans call it hazing, but their societies left off this activity. While on the other hand if we look on India it's going severe day by day despite number of laws against this activity their society still embraces it, there are number of brutal incidents observed every year in India, and day by day it's getting intensified.
In Pakistan we have bearable attitude, all developed countries had already left ragging, and no law can restrict people if society does not accept it as it is happening in India. I have put forward my analysis regarding this from disparate sources and through my observations now it's up to readers' how do they ponder and decide whether it should continue or not and if so then up to what extent.
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