Posted on September 3, 2008 by Shivam Vij
Pranay remembers his first day in college: Now The girls Start commenting on me. i could hear “he’s cute” hahaha.. Finally they ask my One last Question. Guess???? …… Whom do you Find the Most prettiest among us??? haha.. i was dumb struck with that question.. didn’t know what to answer, they were my seniors. [...]
Filed under: 2003-04, Karnataka, memory | Tagged: CEC Mangalore, college life, denial, hazing, hostel, Pranay Pai, ragging | 10 Comments »
Posted on April 6, 2005 by Shivam Vij
(How do freshers who run like headless chickens to escape ragging become raggers and start genuinely believing in ragging as a useful practice? This essay may perhaps give some insight into the changing mental landscape of a fresher through the course of a year.) By Dr SAM VANKIN (“He” in this text – to mean [...]
Filed under: memory | Tagged: Dr Sam Vankin, ragging and psychology, raggers as ragging victims | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 22, 2005 by Shivam Vij
By SUJIT SARAF [This article was written by Sujit Saraf for StopRagging.org in March 2005. He is a film-maker and playwright who lives in California. He has been associated with IIT Delhi both as a student and an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is author of the novel The Peacock Throne.] [...]
Filed under: 1987-88, First-hand stories, memory, sexual ragging | Tagged: hazing in India, IIT Delhi, ragging, Ragging in IITs, Sujit Saraf | 6 Comments »
Posted on March 1, 2005 by Shivam Vij
By NAVIN PANGTI A fresher at MNREC (now known as the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology), Allahabad is asked to ride a buffalo. The seniors gleefully look on as a visibly tense boy mounts the buffalo. The buffalo, not willing to be a part of the act, shrugs and the young boy falls on [...]
Filed under: 1991-92, First-hand stories, Ragging Violence, Uttar Pradesh, memory, ragging deaths | Tagged: MNNIT Allahabad, Navin Pangti, ragging deaths, Ragging in NITs | 2 Comments »
Posted on February 17, 2005 by Shivam Vij
By AMITAV GHOSH The year I joined College, in 1973, the word among us freshers was that the most terrifying ragger in College lived in Rudra Court, in L9. Terrifying because he wasn’t the usual kind of bullying, bellowing senior. No, he was to them as the panther is to the elephant, the scimitar to [...]
Filed under: 1973-74, Delhi, First-hand stories, memory | Tagged: Amitav Ghosh, Mukul Kesavan, ragging in elite colleges, Rukun Advani, St. Stephen's College | Leave a Comment »
