This was many years that happened to me but I remember it as last week. Those days I passed my SSC with credits then applied to the Law College. I think I went for a test as well. I was informed later on that I got through or was selected. Then I went to this office at Hulftsdorp to see my results. I was greeted by one or two senior students, went to see the results then as I was coming along the corridor one of them tried to drag me into a room then I noticed there were a few more inside as well. I made a struggle to escape then ran off from the premises and never went back again.

Somehow it sensed to me that they were trying to rag me that is why I ran away. I heard of these things in my college and the signs were there of a rag that put me off altogether. Suppose if I was not given a rag or an attempt to rag me, then I would have done law. I am so sorry to hear still this business of ragging or kind of bullying taking place.

I have been to UK universities and I was never subjected to any kind of ragging or harassment, why in Sri Lanka? Almost every weekend or mid there were discos, get-together at the student`s union and they were quite friendly and treated with respect. In these universities, quite a few different cultural background students get-together, not just British and they get on quite well, you are not cornered or left along. If you need to be left along then they respect it as well, but no ragging as such. Sorry there may be but the few I went to were quite different.

I think the attitude must be changed and the students must be welcomed than harass them. The time has changed and they must be more civilised and let the newcomers understand that University is a welcome place and not be afraid of coming there. I must say that I couldn`t get into any University in Sri Lanka but in fact there were two, one in Colombo then the other in Kandy then much later the other same up or there must have been but I was not aware of them. My friends became doctors of medicine but I was nowhere near. Which University would take with just two Advanced Level passes?

That is a different issue, the important issue is make sure these senior students don`t give a hard time when the newcomers come in with lots of future hopes. Please make these Universities a happy place for the future generations.