Fawad Kaiser.
Ragging in medical colleges.
Rawal Med J Jan ;33(1):106-8.

Only last year seven students from medical colleges were suspended for alleged ragging bordering on sexual harassment. Teasing, ducking and ragging in medical colleges is becoming a serious problem in professional institutes.1 “Teasing” is defined as the mildest form of harassment, irritation or provocation, characterized by persistent petty distractions. “Ducking” may be more severe, and chiefly involves some one having to perform humiliating imitations of animal behavior. “Ragging” is the most severe of the three initiations practices, and it is no accident that it was introduced into subcontinent by the first Sandhurst (a British Military School) recruits to arrive in the country. Although it began mildly enough, it helped relax the new students in an alien atmosphere and helped them form friendships, however it soon evolved into highly torturous practices. Its imposition on new students became established in medical colleges as the right and privilege of the senior students and as necessary punishment fo r the new ones, who at the same time were granted concessions and protection by their seniors.

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