Posted by shivani on Friday June 23, @02:10AM
The season is in, the time has come......
The SY(second year) students eating chana and gud are devising ways to "welcome" the new batch...their "JUNIORS". The TY students who are a little more experienced will satisfy themselves by letting the SY play the game. Not to be included anywhere in the picture are the final year students who are already burdened with the tension of placements.
Yes it's the "RAGGING TIME",time for some to hip-hop, make friends and for some to cry and cyrse. Hey but wasn't ragging banned?? Yes but only officially, unofficially what students do they know it the best.
Some say it's a must as it's a way of interacting and getting to know juniors but is it limited to mere exchange of thoughts???
All of us are aware of assaults that the bechara guys still face in so many colleges especially the hostilites. "Birthday" the most gladly awaited day becomes the dreaded day after entering hostel premises. Getting hit by 15-20 guys wearing their best shoes at mid-night is not a gift that anyone looks forward to. And if you question these hard-hearted humans they are armed with the reply that even they had to face all this and the cycle goes on....
Girls luckily escape physical abuse but mental torture awaits them. Fashion conscious gals get shattered when asked to oil their hair, wear bathroom-slippers and mismatched salwar suits for months. Undoubtedly these are the longest months of their lives. Seniors come up with all kind of weird ideas ,some ask to turn off the tubelights by blowing air at it, some say to take out coin from water filled bucket by transferring the water in another, some relax while juniors complete their journals and few adventurous one's ask them to go shouting on roads "baadh(flood) aayee bhago". However senseless this may seem, it's a way of merrymaking.
Fact remains that the student who does all these finnicky acts sportingly and enjoying evey bit of it wins over the heart of his seniors and those who crib and try to acty smart suffer till the end. But seniors should also co-operate and undestand the state of their juniors because they themselves had gone through this phase.
I would like to invite the readers to share their experiences and mail any funky thing they have planned for the "dear juniors".
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