Hello, Yesterday was 11th October, the so-called No Ragging Day, the day when Amit, a 17 year old youngster committed suicide. He said in his suicide note:
"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 jumped in front of a moving train to end his life. * * * More than two years back we decided to remember this day in Amit's memory, call it 'The No Ragging Day' and make an effort to raise awareness with regard to ragging on this day. * * * But we forgot to do the same this year. Atleast, I did forget! Does the fire to end ragging still burn in our hearts? Or we have normalized it as we have normalized the explosion of bombs every days, riots every day, etc. Accepted it? Have we forgotten the cause of ragging? If not, let every one on the group know what you did in the last 6 months toward our cause of a ragging-free education system... any small or big contribution is very welcome. * * * Let us use this No Ragging Day to introspect! Regards Varun Co-founder, CURE -- Varun Aggarwal EECS PhD Student, MIT, http://web.mit.edu/~varun_ag/www/ MIT India Reading Group, http://india.mit.edu CURE, India, http://www.noragging.com --The delay in replying is not my indifference, but my incompetence --
