Ragging cases in 2009-10: The crackdown has begun

IN 2009-10, educational institutions have started a crackdown on ragging that is unprecedented. Many cases of police complaints have come to light. 28 July 2009: 19 girl students fine for ragging freshers at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. Link 29 July: Law student in Pune, Neeraj Dubey, booked for extortion bid [...]

Beaten, tortured, forced to do drugs, wrists slashed with razors

There have been so many ragging incidents coming out in the news, but the media is done with ragging and there’s no hype beyond the singular news report. It would be a mistake to presume that there’s been a spurt in ragging incidents; the spurt has instead been in the reporting of incidents, in punishment [...]