How Ragging Destroys Indian

Dreams? Sources
Introduction
● https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/kolkata-news/jadavpur-university-student-deat
h-6-more-accused-arrested-101692161636642.html
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e-menace/story-yU9tEPv91PgAMrATxjva9L.html
● https://thewire.in/rights/jadavpur-university-ragging-death-swapnadeep-kundu

Section 1: What is ragging? How Big Is The Problem?

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murky-world-of-ragging-in-indian-colleges-6321389fe534f
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ml
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world-278321.html

Section 2: Origins of Ragging

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-can-be-misused-in-india-47779/
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3. Psychology of Ragging
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them-sacked/articleshow/101556623.cms?from=mdr
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-at-home/story-zNNnm3jsFKshnpcCKPS0YO.html
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ied/29808/
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ace-domestic-violence-shows-data-123051400486_1.html

3.2.1 Why seniors rag?

● https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/ragging-lack-of-discipline-political-prote
sts-in-universities-who-is-to-blame/
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3.2.2 Rite of passage

● https://www.ugc.gov.in/pdfnews/7661310_Psychosocial-Study-of-Ragging.pdf
● https://www.hindustantimes.com/editorials/india-needs-an-anti-ragging-act-to-curb-th
e-menace/story-yU9tEPv91PgAMrATxjva9L.html

Section 4: But is it really okay?

● https://www.ugc.gov.in/pdfnews/7661310_Psychosocial-Study-of-Ragging.pdf

4.1. Impact on victims

● https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Ragged-medico-too-shaken-to-go-
back-to-college/articleshow/4861276.cms
● https://www.dnaindia.com/education/comment-is-it-ragging-or-stockholm-syndrome-o
n-our-campuses-1287876
● https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6085085/
● https://www.ugc.gov.in/pdfnews/7661310_Psychosocial-Study-of-Ragging.pdf
● https://www.britannica.com/science/Stockholm-syndrome

4.2. Ragging and casteism

● https://www.firstpost.com/health/the-serious-effects-of-ragging-on-students-well-being
-7201321.html
● https://www.ugc.gov.in/pdfnews/7661310_Psychosocial-Study-of-Ragging.pdf
● https://www.thequint.com/south-india/telangana-doctor-preethi-suicide-family-says-m
urder#read-more
5.1 The reluctance of institutions to act
● https://www.ugc.gov.in/pdfnews/7661310_Psychosocial-Study-of-Ragging.pdf
● https://frontline.thehindu.com/news/jadavpur-university-student-dies-after-ragging/arti
cle67198409.ece
● https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/anti-ragging-measures-fall-shor
t-as-students-run-amok-on-campus/articleshow/95815074.cms

5.2 Ragging is glorified through Indian cinema.

● https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Dont-show-ra
gging-casually-in-films-Manish/articleshow/7312508.cms
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6. How can we tackle this? (Conclusion)

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ges-colleges-university-academic-institutions-759297-2012-07-31