Chowrangi

Last year, I wrote about deaths from eating and drinking competitions. I didn’t know that it was happening right in our backyard. There is a show run by a psychopath named Waqar called Living on the Edge. He insults participants, yells and screams at them, and rejects many without even giving them a chance to prove themselves, even after they have traveled from various places and spent the entire day waiting for their turn. This is not the disturbing part though.

The disturbing part is that he makes people eat things in a manner that can cause death instantly and makes them consume soft drinks, telling them that if they can drink it in a certain number of seconds, they can win. There have also been many other “dares” that could have caused death.

I don’t understand why people do this to themselves. Why would anyone go to a show only to get insulted and humiliated on TV, in front of hundreds of thousands of people, and if given a chance to prove themselves, eat cockroaches, worms and indulge in life endangering acts?

Below is a video of Waqar making a participant indulge in one of his (life endangering) “dares”. What I find disturbing is that after the “dare” is over, Waqar tells the participant right away that if he drinks water he will be disqualified. After a few seconds, when it looks like the participant might end up dead, he says “paani peelo”.

The participant obviously refuses because unlike Waqar, he did not forget that he might get disqualified, even if he ends up dead.

Other posts by Mohammad Yusha

• Are Indian cricketers selfish? - February 9th, 2010
• Ball tampering is only wrong if you are a Pakistani cricketer - February 2nd, 2010
• Dowry Harassment: Silence Hides Violence - December 20th, 2009
• Drink plenty of water for health benefits - December 19th, 2009
• Rising Dowry in Rising India - December 18th, 2009
• The biggest Bank Robbery in Pakistan; the very guard hired to protect the bank robs it - December 17th, 2009
• Politeness towards one's children - December 15th, 2009
• Wife wants to be treated with love, not like a fly - December 14th, 2009
• Why Indians and Pakistanis fight each other and how to bridge the gap? - November 12th, 2009
• Why do women comment less than men on blogs? - November 10th, 2009