Andhra girl attempts suicide after being ragged

This comes less than a week after Aman Kachroo’s death. 12 Mar 2009, PTI / The Times of India GUNTUR: A student of agriculture engineering attempted to commit suicide after her hostel mates allegedly made her dance nude as part of ragging today, police said. The 20-year-old student of the Government Agriculture Engineering College in [...]

Parody and panic: homosexuality and homosocial organisation in sexual ragging

By ANIRUDDHA DUTTA Despite that rather forbidding title, I think I can take the liberty to begin with a personal anecdote. In any case, this is not a sociological report or a research article, and can claim the authority of neither: the piece is far more an attempt to gauge the fuller implications (only dimly [...]

How I was ragged at IIT Delhi and why it was no joke (1987)

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.] [...]