NIT Rourkela: Ragging in times of REC

I was surfing the net, I came across this article on ragging by one of our Alumini: RAGHAVENDRAN

The author was at the Regional Engineering College, Rourkela, between 1994 and ‘98. He wrote this essay for The Stop Ragging Campaign in June 2004. The institute has been renamed National Institute of Technology.

This is the story of a hapless ‘bhutru’ (that is what they call a fresher in REC Rourkela, now called NIT Rourkela). I do not seek anonymity for what I am writing here. This is in no way to degrade the name of REC Rourkela. I have all the respect for the institutions that imparted sound education to me. I owe all the credit to what I am today to my education at REC Rourkela and Anna University (I was a day-scholar here). But these are temples of knowledge from where such nonsense activities have to be uprooted.

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