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Ragging The Culture of Humiliation and Menace

Ragging involves seniors exerting dominance over juniors through systematic human rights abuses. It can involve mental or physical harassment. While some see ragging as a way to break ice between seniors and juniors or build unity, it actually discriminates based on attributes and can turn deadly. Every year students die due to ragging in Bangladesh, highlighting the need to end this practice.

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Ragging The Culture of Humiliation and Menace

Ragging involves seniors exerting dominance over juniors through systematic human rights abuses. It can involve mental or physical harassment. While some see ragging as a way to break ice between seniors and juniors or build unity, it actually discriminates based on attributes and can turn deadly. Every year students die due to ragging in Bangladesh, highlighting the need to end this practice.

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Ragging: The Culture Of Humiliation & Menace

In simpler terms, Ragging is a systematic human rights abuse practiced by the


seniors on the freshers so as to exert their dominance over the juniors. The ragging
problem is a legacy of the British. There are two types of ragging mental and
physical. There are some psychology behind ragging such as discrimination based
on caste, region, language, class etc plays a vital role in influencing it, especially in
small cities and towns. In many instances it starts as a healthy interaction but due
to adrenaline rush and excitement in the group the seniors get carried away and
ragging turns ugly. Also Students consider ragging as an old ritual having social
acceptance.

Myths of ragging such as ragging helps in breaking the ice between the seniors and
freshers. It helps in their interaction and developing friendship between them but in
reality ragging is an archaic method of interaction with several harmful effects.
Today with advance psychological science there are many other healthy ways of
interaction which are more effective and without any human rights abuse. Another
myth is ragging generates a feeling of unity and Oneness. But in reality ragging
divides the students on the lines of caste, region, class etc. It sets mob mentality in
the students. Every year 9 students died because of ragging in Bangladesh. To
exemplify the disastrous consequences of ragging, we can mention Abrar’s death
in this connection. A second year student from buet died because of ragging.

Ragging has crossed all limits. Let us put a stop, Let us make difference, Let us
join hands and put an end to this devil! Don’t rag…..

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