Years ago, Ramgopal Varma made a film: 'Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega.' Time has come to make a film with the word 'selfie' instead of 'love' in the title of that film. If we put selfie instead of love in the title of the film, it will be quite accurate. From time to time, there are cases where stupid people take any extreme risk or take foolish steps to take a selfie. In the last week of October, 2024, a 23-year-old youth named Shrikant Ramchandra Satre in Abapur village of Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra went to lay cables in Abapur along with other youths. During his stay, Srikanth along with two other youths went to see the elephants in the forest in the morning when it was learned that wild elephants had arrived in the forest near the village. Although six persons have died due to elephant attacks in this forest in the last one year, Srikanth was overjoyed to see the elephant. He made the mistake of going too close to the elephant to click a selfie, which provoked the elephant and attacked Srikanth. The elephant, in front of Srikanth's two companions, trampled him and trampled him. Srikanth died instantly. Fifty percent of the people who die worldwide every year due to selfies are Indian citizens! Foolish individuals put their lives at risk in their zeal to impress people by taking weird or 'daring' selfies. Not long ago, a native of Madhya Pradesh and a B.S. Anup Mishra, a 22-year-old student studying computer engineering at the Institute of Technology, was killed while venturing out to take a selfie. Anup was very fond of exploring new places and traveling to unknown places. He also used to tell his friends that when I get a job, I will take my family to new and beautiful places, but while taking a selfie, he lost his life and shattered his family's dream that Anup would become a computer engineer. A native of Rewa, Anup was the youngest of his three siblings. He along with his three friends reached Kondeshwar Falls in Badlapur near Mumbai. While bathing under the waterfall, he tried to take a selfie. At that time he and one of his friends started drowning. Some men who were present there at that time saved Anup's friend, but could not save Anup. After that, the local people pulled Anup's body out of the water. On July 16, 2024, Mumbai-based social media influencer Anvi Kamdar also fell to her death in a 300-feet-deep gorge while taking a risk for selfies and reels near Kumbhe Falls in Raigad. 27-year-old Anvi Kamdar became famous for making travel reels, but while she was trekking near the Kumbh Falls with seven friends, her foot slipped and she fell into a deep canyon. An immediate rescue team rushed to save her, but she could not survive. Statistics say that in our country men are more likely to risk their lives due to selfies. 72.5 percent of people who die while taking selfies are men and 27.5 percent are women. In Rajasthan's Jodhpur city on April 11, 2017, a young man wrapped a dangerously poisonous cobra snake around his neck and took a selfie with it to scare people. Instead of being swayed by his foolish risk, the snake was paralyzed and bit the foolish youth in the head. Bitten by a venomous snake, the young man fainted and fell down in a few moments. He died within minutes before he could receive treatment! However, many girls also take risks with selfies. Six students from an engineering college in Andhra Pradesh were taking a selfie while standing on the bank of a lake in Telangana while on a tour. At that time, a girl's foot slipped and she fell into the lake. All the other girls jumped into the lake to save her. Only one of those foolish girls survived, all the rest drowned in the lake! Some young men and women risk their lives to become heroes (or heroines) on social media. Due to this, unimaginable events also happen. On August 1, 2016, one such unimaginable incident of kilfis (selfie erections) took place in Muzaffarnagar (in 2019, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation coined the word 'kilfis' for selfie erections). In that incident, a 35-year-old girl took the risk of taking a selfie with a pistol. She was taking a selfie with the pistol in her palm with one hand when her finger pressed on the trigger and the bullet fired in the pistol entered her palm! To what extent young men and women are obsessed with making selfies that they don't even care about death!
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