Year 2005.Calicut medical college
Oh i was so happy to be in a medical college finally.A dream come true....Infact i chose calicut straight away even without considering other colleges.I don know what made me do that.I hadn't even heard of the college before !! Anyways the first day is still crystal clear in my head..Since i was from kollam,a 10hr journey to calicut,we came a day before d class started.N my dad took me to hostel just to check out how twas...In front of the hostel we find machos blasting the pioneer music system in a new car...From that emerges a handsome guy with sparkling eyes and a cute smile n greets my father.They start some conversation and they even have a laugh,then my dad smiles and says,"do a little bit of ragging to him ok".....I's shocked to hear that and the seniors too shared my same expression i think.....
Next day,the first day in hostel,after the introduction classes in college,when we returned,we were greeted by hungry seniors.Now this situation was not new to me..I had been a junior once and even a senior.I never knew what a senior wanted but i did know he wanted respect.So the motto was clear "SHOW RESPECT".And at night i was picked up by the most villainous bunch of seniors,the 45th...There were three other juniors in the room along with 7 other seniors....I knew they were the most senior.And i remained humble than ever n did everything they asked for.......I even licked the ashtray !! Few minutes after which they sort of congratulated me and made me the right hand of THE BHAI....Nobody ragged me till 2...I mean till when i was with them...Then i was called upon by the just senior batch guys n they had their happy time.They were amidst some exams and the frustration and disappointment with themselves came right on us....They asked me some petty things to do and i did it with ease but dint overdo it :) they dint find any fun or what they were looking for...So they left me..I was actually feeling happy and adapted to the situation when everybody else were scared to death.And the next day there was this very funny incident..In mess,a senior asked me to drink hot tea...One thing they dint know was that i hate tea and haven had tea since i was 6 ! The glass was superhot..I took hold of it gently and as i prepared to drink,the senior said not to drink...I was so relieved !! And then he asked some other person to drink it,he replied,"this is very hot".....Bhaam....He was made to drink even the last drop !! Thats how seniors are :) After when i finished my food,i asked the senior sitting in front of me if i could get up and go(from my experience in st.Thomas) which surprised some seniors but they realized that i have been in hostel before.And thus it dint take much time for me to build rapport with the seniors.I think my some of my batchmates looked at me with envy.Anyways I was enjoying the new environment....But that lasted only three days...
There was this guy in my batch and he was from my town oly...He told his father about the cruel ragging in hostel.His dad told my dad and they decided to move us both to an outside hostel....I pleaded my dad not to do it but he refused.....And then i was lik a dayscholar....I would hear stories about ragging in hostel and i found them interesting.Well back in my private hostel there was this hyperactive guy who verbally abused seniors,ofcourse in their absence....When i saw how hypocritic he was,i thought guys lik him deserve ragging...I never had to experience much ragging after that...But you know what was most striking....All the seniors who ragged me remembered me and they smiled whenever they saw me back in college...They even took me to library,at the time when freshers entering library would be ragged lik anything...I met more seniors...They advised me to get back to hostel...I felt lik i began to'v brothers again....
After 7months i succeeded in persuading my dad to get back to hostel.And it was a good time to get back.The ramdan...There were 8 muslim guys who lik me had opted out of hostel n who returned during the month of ramdan....So the ragging had much declined and since it was holy month fewer ragging...Less did we know that seniors had noted us and planned to rag later...Luckily i knew some of the seniors and i did respect them always,unlike the muslim guys who started enjoying the freedom..And eventually they got ragged...Thats when i met the 46th batch....They were known to rag so hard...But I liked them.Twas fun to get ragged by them.They kinda followed what the golden rule of ragging was..."FUN-for the one ragging and d one getting ragged"
The year rolled on...Next year....We the seniors....Now this is the year which changed me and my outlooks lik hell...First i came to know how sick the people in calicut were.Second i saw power in wrong hands....My batchmates had only one intention while ragging....REVENGE...Avenge for what was done to them...I tried talking it out but it dint work...So i dropped the idea of ragging...Yes some of it were funny but they did the same stuff with everyone...Not that i got bored of repetition,they dint care to look the history of whom they were ragging....I don know if you could appreciate if d same question can evoke responses as different as black and white...It depends on lots of things...I could see the deterioration of the art of ragging....Twas becoming a completely bad scenario...It sucked...I felt pity for the juniors who were tasting the sour version of ragging....So i decided to shun the role of a senior and enjoy being a junior of 46th...And trust me, my life would have been hell in calicut without them...They reminded me of my st.Thomas seniors...I had lots of fun with them...They took me out when they partied,they took me to beach,movies,shopping and even taught me techniques and places to birdwatch :) and they made fun of me when i came to know that my so called girl friend was having me as a friend to satisfy her physical desires ! Actually they were disappointed they couldn point out the girl before !! Well they taught me to look at it in a funny angle,the angle of experience :) Anyways life was fun to have them around,and in postings.....I haven seen any 'good' ragging after them.I have this feeling that the art was passed from 45th to 46th but after that the anti ragging came into being.And the phase almost represented the revenge filled process...And till date its the same...The dictum-for what was done to us !!
Oh i was so happy to be in a medical college finally.A dream come true....Infact i chose calicut straight away even without considering other colleges.I don know what made me do that.I hadn't even heard of the college before !! Anyways the first day is still crystal clear in my head..Since i was from kollam,a 10hr journey to calicut,we came a day before d class started.N my dad took me to hostel just to check out how twas...In front of the hostel we find machos blasting the pioneer music system in a new car...From that emerges a handsome guy with sparkling eyes and a cute smile n greets my father.They start some conversation and they even have a laugh,then my dad smiles and says,"do a little bit of ragging to him ok".....I's shocked to hear that and the seniors too shared my same expression i think.....
Next day,the first day in hostel,after the introduction classes in college,when we returned,we were greeted by hungry seniors.Now this situation was not new to me..I had been a junior once and even a senior.I never knew what a senior wanted but i did know he wanted respect.So the motto was clear "SHOW RESPECT".And at night i was picked up by the most villainous bunch of seniors,the 45th...There were three other juniors in the room along with 7 other seniors....I knew they were the most senior.And i remained humble than ever n did everything they asked for.......I even licked the ashtray !! Few minutes after which they sort of congratulated me and made me the right hand of THE BHAI....Nobody ragged me till 2...I mean till when i was with them...Then i was called upon by the just senior batch guys n they had their happy time.They were amidst some exams and the frustration and disappointment with themselves came right on us....They asked me some petty things to do and i did it with ease but dint overdo it :) they dint find any fun or what they were looking for...So they left me..I was actually feeling happy and adapted to the situation when everybody else were scared to death.And the next day there was this very funny incident..In mess,a senior asked me to drink hot tea...One thing they dint know was that i hate tea and haven had tea since i was 6 ! The glass was superhot..I took hold of it gently and as i prepared to drink,the senior said not to drink...I was so relieved !! And then he asked some other person to drink it,he replied,"this is very hot".....Bhaam....He was made to drink even the last drop !! Thats how seniors are :) After when i finished my food,i asked the senior sitting in front of me if i could get up and go(from my experience in st.Thomas) which surprised some seniors but they realized that i have been in hostel before.And thus it dint take much time for me to build rapport with the seniors.I think my some of my batchmates looked at me with envy.Anyways I was enjoying the new environment....But that lasted only three days...
There was this guy in my batch and he was from my town oly...He told his father about the cruel ragging in hostel.His dad told my dad and they decided to move us both to an outside hostel....I pleaded my dad not to do it but he refused.....And then i was lik a dayscholar....I would hear stories about ragging in hostel and i found them interesting.Well back in my private hostel there was this hyperactive guy who verbally abused seniors,ofcourse in their absence....When i saw how hypocritic he was,i thought guys lik him deserve ragging...I never had to experience much ragging after that...But you know what was most striking....All the seniors who ragged me remembered me and they smiled whenever they saw me back in college...They even took me to library,at the time when freshers entering library would be ragged lik anything...I met more seniors...They advised me to get back to hostel...I felt lik i began to'v brothers again....
After 7months i succeeded in persuading my dad to get back to hostel.And it was a good time to get back.The ramdan...There were 8 muslim guys who lik me had opted out of hostel n who returned during the month of ramdan....So the ragging had much declined and since it was holy month fewer ragging...Less did we know that seniors had noted us and planned to rag later...Luckily i knew some of the seniors and i did respect them always,unlike the muslim guys who started enjoying the freedom..And eventually they got ragged...Thats when i met the 46th batch....They were known to rag so hard...But I liked them.Twas fun to get ragged by them.They kinda followed what the golden rule of ragging was..."FUN-for the one ragging and d one getting ragged"
The year rolled on...Next year....We the seniors....Now this is the year which changed me and my outlooks lik hell...First i came to know how sick the people in calicut were.Second i saw power in wrong hands....My batchmates had only one intention while ragging....REVENGE...Avenge for what was done to them...I tried talking it out but it dint work...So i dropped the idea of ragging...Yes some of it were funny but they did the same stuff with everyone...Not that i got bored of repetition,they dint care to look the history of whom they were ragging....I don know if you could appreciate if d same question can evoke responses as different as black and white...It depends on lots of things...I could see the deterioration of the art of ragging....Twas becoming a completely bad scenario...It sucked...I felt pity for the juniors who were tasting the sour version of ragging....So i decided to shun the role of a senior and enjoy being a junior of 46th...And trust me, my life would have been hell in calicut without them...They reminded me of my st.Thomas seniors...I had lots of fun with them...They took me out when they partied,they took me to beach,movies,shopping and even taught me techniques and places to birdwatch :) and they made fun of me when i came to know that my so called girl friend was having me as a friend to satisfy her physical desires ! Actually they were disappointed they couldn point out the girl before !! Well they taught me to look at it in a funny angle,the angle of experience :) Anyways life was fun to have them around,and in postings.....I haven seen any 'good' ragging after them.I have this feeling that the art was passed from 45th to 46th but after that the anti ragging came into being.And the phase almost represented the revenge filled process...And till date its the same...The dictum-for what was done to us !!
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