STOP RAGGING

This post of mine is out of sync with few earlier posts. No IPL, no elections. This is about something which I have witnessed. Ragging or interaction (one of the euphemisms used for it) is a grave problem plaguing our educational institutions. We have lost so many bright young minds to some sadist and diabolical manifestations of inner frustrations of other equally bright young minds.
One thing which is very clear is that ragging cannot occur without some support or negligence on part of college authorities towards raggers. I take example of IIT Kanpur. Here authorities are so strict on any physical abuse during ragging that no senior dares to even touch a junior while ragging. So if the college administration becomes strict the problem could be solved very easily. We have some colleges where ragging goes on for whole year. Also, medical colleges somehow have more ragging incidents reported than any other professional stream. The Supreme Court guidelines are very strict and hopefully they are implemented as well by the authorities. We should have a zero tolerance policy towards ragging. The punishment should be very harsh and quickly delivered. This will act as deterrent for future raggers.
Apart from this some steps should be taken at the student level. A verbal abuse may be innocuos to some person but for some other person it can be devastating. Most probably this will not qualify as ragging in law books. So emotional support from seniors and hostel inmates is very necessary. And as far as IIT Kanpur is concerned I have seen only a small number of seniors are indulged in verbal harassment of juniors. There are better ways for initiationof freshers like here at IIT Kanpur we have a Student Guide assigned to a group of freshers who are treated as 'buddies'.
Those who profess that ragging is a way to initiate fresher into college life and leads to strong bonds with juniors forget the fact that there are better ways to do the same things without spoiling someone's life or career. In my 4 years of stay I have seenmost of the seniors have been very helpful whenever a junior asks for some help even though they had no acquaintence. There are much better educational institutions in west where we do not have any ragging incidents. So why not the same thing can be done in India? Stop Ragging as soon as possible. No more Amans now.