She garnered many accounts from students about their horrible experiences with ragging, but of course, change never happens without backlash. “They need to be given an idea of why ragging happens and what they should do if it happens,” commented Dayarathna. What a lot of people don’t realise is that ragging is an exploitation of how vulnerable university students have to feel in order to force themselves into getting into the ragging culture. In the last three months that Break the Chain has been operating, they have done some significant campaigns against ragging. Another thing that Dayarathna observed during her years in uni was that some students don’t know they are being ragged.

Source: The Nation August 25, 2021 18:45 UTC