Hi dear friends, I recently visited the state of Sikkim (3rd Dec-10th Dec 17) and have been mighty pleased with the place. Here is a brief summary of my visit which will also act as a sort of mini travel guide for those of you who havent been there already. To start of with, let me proclaim except the roads and travel time, I didnt find even one thing to complain about and thus the whole trip was extremely smooth sailing, highly economical and a heavenly experience. Mind you, we went in a sort of off season just prior to the start of the 'season' which starts from the second half of December from when proper snowfall starts to about Jan after which it gets really snow covered and some of the roads are closed. We did get snow though on the way to Nathu La enough to play around and experience so from a clearly practical point of view ours was a wonderful time to visit as there was not cut throat competition amongst those in tourism industry making it economical, desirable while...
The word ragging is synonymous with professional courses,hostels and freshers. The recent incident at Naigaon hostel brings back memories of my 1 st year M.B.B.S days spent at a hostel 500kms away from home. Even after experiencing it myself I cannot exactly define what is ragging even though it is omnipresent in hostels. Every fresher is asked his introduction and a brief peek into his personal life like number of girlfriends etc. The variety of methods of ragging itself make the situation dicey. While the law recognises ragging as a crime one should understand the psychology and hierarchy of the hostelite who ‘rags’ juniors. The simple reason given is we rag juniors because we were ragged when we were one. Most of the times there is no intention of harming the juniors. ‘Introduction’ is the essence of hostel life. There are even instances of juniors actually enjoying the experience themselves with all the mimicry, enactments and mud slinging on each other. After recounting how ...
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