Ragged    

             

Reading-through the upshot of medical exam

With the final optimism in this test

His eyes wide open in glance

Looks again at the result to clarify

With those arguments nullify

He has news to give with head high

His aim to become a doctor gets wings

In high spirits he dances and buzzes

Parents proud to have him as son

Can’t neglect a prospect to shun

All those voices in neighborhood

Had begun to smudge where he stood

To term him a failure amongst all

Comparing the performance over all

Stepping the gates of the institute

First day he faces a dream in mute

For him every teacher an astute

Learnt and practiced his lessons well

An initiative to come out from shell

A day approached to be ragged

A banned act in this part of world

Still practiced with students hurled

Ordered to craft coursework by seniors

If refuted would face harassment

Told his parents about this event

But would be able to handle it on own

His frustration never again shown

After college facing the anguish in hostel

Day after day some vocation by seniors thrown

Facing all this in this new place all alone

Mentally disturbed affecting health

Those horrifying creatures’ images

Disturbing him all night in phases

Unaided in room all those come up

For his rescue nobody turn up…..

A blow on head with devilish hands

All surround him as wild men

             Seems the world has become deaf                                                                To his cries no one replies

“Ah! You cruel men God will never forgive

With no arms in innocent’s hand

Taking advantage, in soup you shall land”

Last drops of blood speak of revenge

They are bloodier with the eyes bent

Once whom people call next to God

Has taken an innocent life oh! Lord

Ready to finish their victim

It does happen with news firing

For family a last serene slumber lay

Next day for everyone a black day

The dead body of this candidate

Lying silently and authorities on hunt

Parents in shock with this news

Cry for their only son

Wild act leave those four men

With their shadows seen in the prison

Dark pages getting darker

Career in one night smashed

Blood on the clothes squander

An affair with the life

Now shall be ragged by life

The news of the Tanda medical college, Himachal Pradesh, a student losing life in ragging has been a shock to all those who send their close ones to the hostel to study to make some mark in life. Seeing that ragging in colleges can steal away the lives of the students by their seniors is heart throbbing. How can a human being entrust atrocities against the other??

There are many instances that cannot be avoided until we ourselves do not halt and think. We should not turn a blind eye to the situations in the surroundings. Start raising voice against the erroneous deeds that shall impinge on the ambiance



written in 2008