Built to Break: How School Culture Manufactures Bullies and Silences the Rest
Aditya Dhaka, 6:06 pm It doesn't always begin with a black eye. Sometimes, the greatest tragedy wears a grin. That, perhaps, is the true genius of school bullying—its ability to pass itself off as “just a joke,” “just a phase,” “just kids being kids” Bacche hai chorr do, aage se nahi karenge . Alas! These phrases are the wrapping paper in which real damage is gifted, year after year, from one batch of students to the next. Behind the echo of morning bells and teacher roll calls lies an unspoken rule book—one that teaches us how to laugh when others fall and stay silent when they bleed. It is not a system designed to fail; it is a system designed to forget who failed. Take any ordinary school corridor. To the untrained eye, it’s tiled floors and bulletin boards. But look closer, and you’ll see the battlefield: whispers sharp as switchblades, stares used as currency, reputations built and razed in the span of a lunch break. Some kids learn math. S...