How I was ragged at IIT Delhi and why it was no joke (1987)

By SUJIT SARAF [This article was written by Sujit Saraf for StopRagging.org in March 2005. He  is a film-maker and playwright who lives in California. He has been associated with IIT Delhi both as a student and an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is author of the novel The Peacock Throne.] [...]

Ragging needs to be studied by behavioural scientists

(Dr. Shobna Sonpar is a clinical psychologist who worked at the Student Counselling Service of IIT Delhi for 13 years during which she counselled students who were ragged as well as researched the phenomenon. This essay first appeared in the Hindustan Times on 4 January 1992 and has been reprinted by StopRagging.org with permission from [...]

The Masks of ’91

By NAVIN PANGTI A fresher at MNREC (now known as the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology), Allahabad is asked to ride a buffalo. The seniors gleefully look on as a visibly tense boy mounts the buffalo. The buffalo, not willing to be a part of the act, shrugs and the young boy falls on [...]