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By Saad Saleem, TS1

Every campus has to have one of these. Raised in Jersey City, Edison or any Indian populated city in America, these guys do their best to replicate the style of a black man. Don’t get me wrong, every brown man wishes he had certain characteristics of a black man. OK that’s a wrong statement. Every brown man wishes he had one characteristic - a black man’s certain possession; everything else regarding a black man he doesn’t give a shit about. For black men, life is a big trade off. You’re blessed with big things but you also got the po-po’s on your bum. Getting back to our point, there are way too many desi guys acting like thugs.

It’s simple to identify super thugs: Read the rest of this entry »

I have a bird. And he sometimes gets angry and bites really hard. But it’s not his fault.

It’s not his fault cause he’s just a bird in a cage.

By Waqas Bin Azhar, TMM 2

Ragging is a very old university culture, and it is still swinging with high pace. Most of us have very strange concepts about ragging that it is the interaction among the freshmen with the seniors. This so-called culture is sometimes a lot of fun, but when it goes in extreme, it turns into a HEART-QUAKE for the juniors. As for me Read the rest of this entry »

Did you know that many visitors on Quack! Online come looking for the term ‘ragging’? Following up on the previous article on the topic, Mister Ragging, Rest in peace, here is a video that shows you exactly how ragging is carried out at TIP.

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Finally, we all heard the strict orders from the Big B; “RAGGING IS OFFICIALLY BANNED IN TIP(full stop)”. The very similar decision was also made last year but ragging was allowed in case if any of the freshmen themselves wanted to be ragged. Thanks to our beloved President, and Academic coordinator for implicating such an ‘Important’ rule and for keeping the honor, respect and confidence of newcomers in a safe place.

When I was a newcomer, I used to be filled with joy, excitement, confidence and was motivated enough to perform well both in my studies and extra curricular activities. The day I joined TIP Read the rest of this entry »

We can all sense it, hear it, heck, even smell it in the air! Smoky wisps of rebellion slowly rising from the apparently bubbling hot insides of the Kingdom of far, far away, called TIP.

Can’t you see the signs? They are all around us. First, the 2006 freshmen ragging videos that were banned along with the ragging itself, get leaked out and made available to all and sundry from the TIP’s computer lab. They have made their way on to the internet, one hears from gossipping voices in the corridors and whispers from behind the library cubicles. This is just one of the many examples.

Students who would shush others who complained of mismanagement, and bad, student-unfriendly policy galore, seem to have changed their minds as well. They can now be seen voicing their opinions/complains out real loud.

What exactly is happening, one wonders…and wonders some more! Could it be frustration and a mixture of disturbed emotions that had been building inside students’ minds since long, and is finally coming out in form of unintentional, but inevitable mutiny, or is it something intentional that will lead to a positive or negative revolution? That only time will tell.

After a three-month long vacation, we finally joined TIP again with a lot of excitement especially regarding ragging of the freshmen students. The seniors had made many plans how to rag the juniors and a lot of enthusiasm could be seen among them. Their patience bore fruit and the freshmen arrived in TIP on August 30th. They were received with sounds of applaud, or should I say we welcomed them by hooting.

For them, we seemed to be a bunch of weird species, which were waiting for their victims for ages. The first impression of TIPians is always like that! I remember my first day at TIP, seeing Faraz Baji delivering his speech in the auditorium, made me think for a second, “am I in a human world?.” But first impressions are not always last impressions! That people learn with time. Ragging is the most wonderful moment of a senior’s life as they tease the freshmen in the same manner they once were teased by their seniors. It is just a way of building friendly relations with the juniors and making them adjust to the university environment (if ragging is done under a limit).

Some students get ragged easily; students who are broad minded and know that one day they will get the same chance. But some of them! They are crybabies and instead of enjoying this part of life they start complaining and start behaving rudely.
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