The new Indian film Hostel will be a shocking eye-opener for the audience to realize that ragging in colleges and schools across India has become an extremely evil practice. It is about time that people realize that ragging should be taken seriously because due to ragging students are losing their lives and committing suicides.
Few Indians are aware of the number of suicides that occur in Indian Hostels as a result of the phenomenon termed as 'Ragging'. This sadistic practice has become a ritual wherein students are beaten up, stripped, paraded naked, starved, tortured, molested and even raped by their seniors. Since victims of ragging find it humiliating to report sexual abuse to their parents or others, most ragging-related crimes go unreported. Sadly, these very students - who suffer silently at the hands of their seniors - in turn, vent their frustrations by ragging their juniors in the following years.
Of course, ragging is a serious issue. I am shocked that even after so many years nothing serious is done about this social issue.
