the frightening face of society

Am terribly disturbed, was on chat with a first year student and she narrated to me about how she was ragged by senior boys, who barged into her lab when the professor was away, inserted a pen drive into her comp, played a porn clip for her and asked her to comment on it. The entire exercise may have lasted 3 to 4 minutes but to her it seemed like hours. She sounded quite blaise when she said, "it was ok, managed somehow." She went on to tell me about her friend in IIT, who was asked to strip naked, and was given a handkerchief to cover any part of his body that he wanted to hide. The boy didnt take long to decide that what he needed to hide most was his face...I want to hide my face from the world on hearing of this too, the act of hiding his face is subject to psychological dissection. His face is his identity, he never wanted to identify what would make him stand out. It is a natural reaction to shame. We often see pics of convicts, being dragged by policemen who cover their face from public view. They are shamed to face the public because of their act. Here the scene is a little different. The ones who should really be ashamed of their act were in fact laughing with glee, and the poor boy who was subjected to humiliation was ashamed to face the public. His crime? That he studied hard to get into the most prestigious Institute in India and the world over, made his parents and well wishers proud. What makes the seniors, who are also from the intelligent populace, who had in their time, worked hard to join the same prestigious institute. get into this sadistic frame of mind. Cant believe that this mirror of society is actually the new citizens of the country, on whom the country banks to make the nation proud!