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National competitions i wont even start as this post will get too long
NLUJ is literally dominating everywhere
If the Mooting premier league was still there today, NLUJ would be number 1 by miles
I guess you are just ignorant to see the truth
But stay happy living in your delulu
Could you please advise what steps were taken to ensure the discontinuation of these practices?
Earlier, their used to be an institutionalised form of ragging too and the 2025 batch made sure that these things do not continue.
NLUJ and it's Ragging. (For the future NLUJ students)
I wrote CLAT and got into NLU Jodhpur. This is an informative post about the ragging scene in NLUJ, All of you have heard of the college and many have it on the top 5 of their preference lists. Let me be clear here, the college is great, the teachers(mostly) are concerned about the students and keep their classes lively, they actively try to keep the class smooth and forward. The Campus is beautiful, hostels have single rooms ensuring privacy(the toilets were a problem but now they are getting renovated) and the sports scene is probably the best in all of the NLUs. But this is not why I'm making this post.
Ragging in NLUJ is called positive interaction or PI for short. It's kind of a ritual/s, PI is not physical in nature, you can say it is degrading though. You WILL have PI in the first few days no matter what and that may continue for many months or even years, that is if you "consent" to it. There is a way to get out of it and that is by telling the seniors that "you're uncomfortable". But this, this is just a false positive.
The moment you say you're uncomfortable you are left alone, not just there but you are left completely. The seniors kind of mark you and spread it to the other seniors, from that day on, almost no senior will ever help you with anything and believe me you will need that help one day or the other. They may even hold a grudge against you but they will never show it outwardly.
PI is just a way for the seniors to boost their own ego and self worth by humiliating the juniors a bit or a lot(often as revenge by being subjected to the same when they were juniors), the level of humiliation ranges from senior to senior. Some seniors take the PI lightly, often they become your good friends and help you out with anything, but other seniors take it a bit too serious. Let's go through the common way PI is taken.
You are always supposed to address your seniors by saying "sir" or "Ma'am", every line must begin and end with sir or Ma'am (atleast loosely), if not you are asked to repeat yourself. You must greet every senior every time you see them with a good morning/evening/afternoon sir/madam, if new to the seniors, you must go through an introduction process. First greet the seniors, state your name, state your background, your course, and then tell an interesting story about yourself(it should be funny, some seniors may laugh others will insult you for it not being interesting enough), you are also not allowed to smile at the seniors as it is deemed disrespect. The seniors are always right, and you must not question them. 1st years are not allowed to wear printed clothes or shorts except for class(except shorts), some seniors are okay with it if you are in the campus roads but most are not. If found wearing a printed shirt you are questioned and asked to wear it inside out. It is deemed as disrespect, why? Just because.
Often seniors call you to their hostel rooms, and take your PI privately(about 5-6 seniors will be in the room, may differ), you may go with your friends but sometimes the seniors don't allow it. In these private sessions the seniors may ask you to enact plays, do demeaning stuff for laughs, or quiz you about the most random stuff(like asking where you think each of them are from in India and calling you racist for it), nothing physical. These may end up funny for you too but may not sometimes. These sessions may go on for hours and it's a general rule not to go in the night cuz it'll screw you sleep schedule.
Ultimately you could call them bonding sessions, the seniors(atleast the cool ones) bond with you and may even send you for errands(like buying snacks and cigarettes), most times they even add in a little bit of something for you too. Regarding cigarettes, if you don't smoke or vape and they do, you can say you're uncomfortable with it and you will be either dismissed, or told to stand outside the room for sometime until they finish or they'll put the cigarettes out. In this case they're understanding with your uncomfort and won't take it seriously. This is universal as in, with every senior it's like this.
What's not is the humiliation. Some stuck up seniors take it too far and take advantage of the fact that you basically don't have a choice and fault you for the smallest things and make fun of you like hell. These are 100% assholes and they won't stop until they bust your balls enough, they are arrogant as hell and want to screw with your own sense of self worth.
Some juniors like PI and they go out of their way to do it, maybe because they want to build contacts or maybe because they like the humiliation(mostly the former). If you ask me, I think PI is good, but only if it was a light and fun thing which it is with some seniors. It makes everyone including you laugh and break the ice. But some rules suck and many demeaning acts screw with your self esteem. The assholes who do this often go scot free because ultimately you have no choice.
So that's about the "positive interaction" in NLU jodhpur. Keep in mind that there are seniors who don't give a shit and mind their own business(mostly the seniors with above 7.5 CGPA) but about 70% of the seniors do PI.
If any of you guys have questions, feel free to DM me. This is obviously a burner account because the minority of assholes I talked about may try to find me. Also realise, that ragging will probably happen in many NLUS or even all, there are NLUs where the ragging is much more brutal. This is merely an account of the Ragging in NLUJ