In a bizarre incident, Bekaar Patil, the man behind famous parody Twitter handle, @IRCTC_Unavailable, tried to hang himself after he was unable to bear the shock of having successfully booked 2 tatkal tickets within 2 minutes on the all new IRCTC website. Patil’s family members, who spotted him in time, rushed in and saved his life.
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Speaking to The UnReal Times, a depressed Patil later said, “The site upgrade has sealed my fate. I’ve lost everything – my followers, my identity, my purpose in life, my moments of glory, my route to happiness, it is all just gone!”
“For a few days after the site upgrade,I nursed hopes that this new bubble would burst one of these days and things would go back to normal, but it wasn’t to be. This morning, when my parents wanted me to book tatkal tickets for them and I was able to book both in 2 minutes, that was the last nail in the coffin. I couldn’t take it anymore and I really didn’t want to live even a second after that,” Patil explained.
Patil is currently undergoing counseling, and has been advised to fulfill his satiric urges by running a MyGov parody account. “A lot of people have remarked that the MyGov site reminds them of the old IRCTC, so perhaps I’ll give it a shot and see how it goes,” Patil said.
Meanwhile, IRCTC officials have appealed to their erstwhile detractors not to take the extreme step. “We understand it can be really hard and depressing for thousands of humorists all over the world, but we strongly urge them not to do something crazy over this. For IRCTC, acche din may have come online, but offline we still have a long way to go – we were recently fined one lakh rupees for a cockroach being spotted in our food! So see, all hope isn’t lost yet,” an official said.
