Because if anybody can make you laugh at tragedy, it's him
ARPITA KALA @akemi_is_here | 25 DECEMBER 2017, 7:51 PM
Biswa says what should have been said already
We bet the lines outside ATMs during demonetisation couldn't have been longer than the queues outside the auditorium where comedian Biswa Kalyan Rath performed today.
Rath spoke about students' suicide and depression on the last day of the Mood Indigo 2017 fest at the IIT Bombay campus. And surprisingly, it was funny.
Using his trademark dark humour, he said, "There is a huge problem in educational institutions that people are not addressing — students' suicide. It hurts me when kids kill themselves because they are my major fanbase. Toh dhandha bandh hota hai. So, aisa mat karo."
Despite the tough love, the comedian managed to give out some real advice to students who are facing suicidal thoughts. He says, "Agar tumko problem hai, speak to a friend... agar tumhara friend sarcastic hai toh baat mat karo. Because then you will say, 'I am feeling bad' and he will say, 'Toh jaa mar jaa.'"
The comedian did take a dig at the questionable hygiene of the engineering students too. "Tumhare paas lake hai, jao nahao. Four students came to receive me and not one of them had taken a bath. You guys haven't bathed for four days. One of them had his beard longer than the hair on his head. But I feel comfortable in engineering spaces," he says. He advised students to give taking bath a chance so that they can appreciate the beauty of life and not get suicidal. "Ek baar naha ke, dho ke ghar se niklo, life achha lagega," he says.
