Suspended for Ragging

Yesterday I was reading a news article about 12 college students being suspended for having invited juniors to one of their houses for a get-together. A case of ragging had been filed against them although all were denying the charges.

Reading this news item time travelled my mind, in a roller coaster ride, back to 1997. I was in my 2nd Year MCA when one fine morning, on the notice board there was a note from the administrative committee "MCA 2nd year students suspended from classes for 2 weeks on account of ragging charges".

We (class of 60) read, re-read this message to our utter anger, disbelief. There was chaos and mayhem everywhere with half of us shouting for justice and talking out how unjust this decision was. For, we truly did not know what had happened and why we were being suspended.

What happened in the next 2 weeks changed our destiny and relationship. Ani became the unelected leader (without opposition, though) and voice of the entire class. He took charge of the situation, met up with seniors to decide future course. He even made sure entire class was united in this effort.

And after series of discussions with the management committee and seniors and students who stayed in the college hostel, the whole story was out. Apparently couple of guys who stayed in the hostel were involved in the ragging incident, which had occured in the hostel premises. However, despite several tries, the college mgmt failed to identify these individuals. Hence, they had decided to debar the entire class... Phew !!!

Ani, thanks to your leadership, this story was found and the suspension was revoked within 1 week. We all became good friends... And this did change V's course of life .... 3-4 years down the lane, she married Ani :D

All in all, this incident did have a Happy Ending :D