This is a classic example of a thoroughly confused student who was forced by parental or peer pressure into pursuing engineering. What a colossal waste of precious and scarce resource - each seat in the prestigious IITs are sought after by thousands of candidates. This guy got that opportunity and what does he do with it? Ridiculous ! He becomes a comedian. Why the heck didn't he take up arts instead of wasting a precious IIT seat. Some other deserving candidate could have got that seat.
via www.humorbeings.in on 3/2/11
Nitin Gupta ( Rivaldo): (FOUNDER & CEO: Chief Entertainment Officer)
Nitin Gupta is a B. TECH from IIT Bombay. He is a Chemical Engineer by Education and an Amusement Engineer by Passion. In his own words he explains, " I just happened to choose Comedy over Entropy :)".He holds the distinction of being the only Stand Up Comic in India to have been invited to the Prestigious TED Talks. TEDx VNIT Nagpur , TEDx Trichy.
At 25, he is not only one of the youngest, but also probably the only Stand Up Comic in India,who can perform in both English and Hindi, with equal Panache. He also created a play "Love in December" which is extremely famous across colleges in India.Presently he is performing touring the country with his Stand Up Comedy Concerts and you could also catch him performing at Comedy Store Mumbai.
2 comments:
LoL. Whats wrong if one seeks to get the best education which our nation can offer? Now to be particular Stand-up Comedy has no recognized degree in any universities. And suppose he gets in Arts college then someone like you might again tell "why he wasted an arts college seat?" Now that's a different story that arts is not as much happening and evolving as engineering from IIT :P
It could be that the Nitin chose to study in IIT and realised how talented he was in creating smart and intelligent jokes with a punch of humorous sarcasm very well. And, the network he built during the years in IIT finally helped him to come up with his own venture!
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