Mamta Chandrashekhar

Ragging is a Violation of Human Rights Mamta Chandrashekhar

Now a day?s ragging has taken the shape of a serious human rights violation. It is defined as any disorderly behaviour towards newcomers, which by itself was an exhaustive definition. Actually ?Ragging? itself is problematic because it marks the fact that the acts it refers to are harassment and battery aimed at diminishing the dignity of those who enter the educational institution at a time when they are powerless, innocent and vulnerable. In actuality, ragging is a notorious practice wherein the senior students get an excuse to harass their junior or newcomers and more often than not, make them easy targets to satiate their own perverse sadistic pleasures. Apart from sustaining grievous physical injuries, those unfortunate students who succumb to ragging either develop a fear psychosis that haunts them throughout their lives, or worse, quit their higher education even before it begins