Saturday 6 October 2007

Explicit ragging or smart ragging? You choose

The kids of today are going insane. First I read this about an engineering college in Agra where seniors decided to push a junior off the third floor of a building!

NB: It's worth noting here that the 3rd floor in India would be the 4th in the US. The US have this bizarre concept of there being no ground floor - they start counting at one. This is often very annoying, because sometime when you visit someplace on the 2nd floor, habit tells you to take the lift if its accessible. But then you suddenly realise it's time to get off before you've hit the button. In my dorms, it was even more confusing, for there is no 1st floor either. The lift starts at the basement - then mezzanine (where we catch it) and then the 2nd. All very confusing and intially annoying.

But to get back to the issue - there's a piece today about kids in Stephens who sprayed deo on a kid and then lit him up....gosh...need I say more?

These were always just sadistic fantasies that we had as seniors(!!) ...no real intention of doing all this...my juniors will testify to this. My modes of ragging (and indeed, torture) were far more legit and subtle - not to mention that they were always given the cloak of legality through the command structure.

The kids of today are going insane.

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