Ah, that third-year IIT student!
Some more glorious desi journalism that would make Nikhat Kazmi proud. Vibhuti Agarwal of Hindustan Times writes about an IIT student whose boss (?!!) “recites figures for the financial year-end”. What?
“I dream about it all the time — when my girlfriend is describing her day in excruciating detail, when my boss is reciting the figures for the financial year-end or even during an episode of Will and Grace. Despite having no training or experience, I wish, I could, drive a Formula 1 car — and win. Schumacher, Raikkonen are guys just like us. Even though a Formula 1 car is a sophisticated piece of machinery that requires physical and mental toning to operate, I’m damn sure it can be tamed after a couple of practice rounds,” says Kabir Parikh, a third-year IIT student.
So you take a random phrase from the piece and Google it, and sure enough the entire article is lifed from the first Google hit — in this case from Ask Men.
Now you can go back to the Hindustan Times article and pick out the Indian names and chanracters invented to insert in the stolen text. To save the trouble, here they are — “Kabir Parikh, a third-year IIT student”, “Gaurav Sakhlani, working with Promodome Communications”, “model-turned-actor Muzammil Abraham”, “Anshuman Zulke, an Executive with a leading Shares and Securities Ltd”, “Samarth Taneja Officer Operations, Cheil Communications”, and “Actress Tanushree Dutta”.
So there, you now know just who “Vibhuti Agarwal” fantasises about. “Muzammil Abraham”, indeed!