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

[khadeeja arif]

Dear Shivam,
I am Khadeeja and I work at Sarai. I have been following your emails with some interest (when you were an I fellow and even post that). I am interested in your posts because they discursively engage with a subject which all of us identify with; they talk of an experience that we all have gone through, but somehow were not able to express it. Your research on ragging is not just novel but also IMPORTANT and I am sure you have gain tremendous support of people all around. The reason I am writing this mail is to tell you that your research on ragging is crucial and you must work on it more and post on the list with the same confidence as you used to do it during I fellow period. I have noticed that all your post I fellow posting on the reader list have an apology in the begining .. I dont think that you should feel apologetic about writing on a list which is open to all and meant to actually initiate dialogue and debate about issues that concerns you and people at large.. So please dont feel shy of postings on the list.. Your research project at Sarai might have ended technically but it dose not mean that you should not continue the dialogue on the list...
I look forward to more of your posts
Best 
Khadeeja


On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 Shivam wrote :
>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.
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