Days after the death of a first-year Bengali student in Kolkata’s Jadavpur University, debate is still on about how ragging has become endemic in our education system and why there is a very thin line between ragging and criminal intimidation.

An 18-year-old student from Nadia district Bengal has died allegedly by suicide after jumping off a height. While investigations are on, and arrests made with ex students and others talking about the ragging culture ostensibly entrenched across institutions, it is time to look beyond education and weigh in on how ‘ragging’ which may be given another name in other spheres is part of our society.