[Reader-list] Fellow ex-I-Fellow on ragging

[Shivam]

Am sorry about "spammimg" you all again, but there's just been a
ragging suicide in Jalandhar in a 'National Institute of Technology'.
So it goes, so it goes...


See http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1261982.cms

Excerpt:

"You call it ragging but it is humiliation and should be banned. It
is, but everyday students are ragged in the college. They are made
naked and ordered to do bad things. This all has brought me to this
point. I can't tell it even to my parents. It is not justified but I
can't bear it any more."

Amit Kumar, reg. no. 234, industrial engineering, room no. 312, Hostel
I, NIT, Jalandhar. This suicide note, left by Amit from Bareilly, UP,
says it all. It was recovered by Government Railway Police staff from
a cupboard in his hostel room. A first year student of the NIT here,
Amit had jumped before a train on Tuesday night.

The note gives the names of 10 of Amit's seniors who ragged him, their
branches and home states. "Sir" follows every name, exhibiting the
lasting terror of the seniors.