00:00I was going to a washroom actually and when I was coming out, A&I, they clicked photos
00:04of me without even caring for myself.
00:07Hi, I'm Sartak Siddhant and you're watching me on MOVE.
00:10The internet me know him as the student who questioned CBSE, Reddit knows him for something
00:15entirely different.
00:16I was known as the metal bottle man on the date, so I lost my bottle, I lost my metal
00:21bottle and I started posting about it everywhere.
00:25People might think I'm a nerd but I'm not that intelligent, I would say I'm not that brilliant
00:30but like, I mean, I would let people believe whatever they want.
00:34When CBSE announced the re-evaluation deadline, you replied, can you please extend the deadline?
00:39I was busy this week exposing you.
00:41Where is this humour coming from?
00:43I developed this humour on the internet.
00:45So are you getting any attention, like female attention after?
00:48I said, Manisha Pandey, ma'am's interview, I just pulled my head down and said, sad moment,
00:53so not really.
00:54I posted my pics, so maybe that helped me after this.
00:58I was also watching your interview with Rahul Gandhi and your mother was sitting next to
01:02you and she seemed emotional at certain moments.
01:07It has obviously been emotional.
01:09At first she was worried about me, she was very overwhelmed actually.
01:14She wanted Nuju stalking to the media houses and stop giving interviews but like her friend
01:18convinced her and explained the situation.
01:21Sarthak's CBSE involvement began after he requested a scanned copy of his answer sheet
01:26and started looking into the on-screen marking system.
01:29Has there been a moment when you thought like, I wish my father could see all of that?
01:34There has been moments I thought and my mother would have thought that too.
01:39The internet knows Sarthak as the whistleblower, but there's another side people rarely see.
01:44Two years ago, while appearing for his 10th board exams, Sarthak lost his father.
01:48I have no clue how I gave the exams or how I scored well about it.
01:53What happened, happens. I do not think about it at all.
01:57Before parliament committee rooms, viral thinkpad photos and national headlines,
02:02Sarthak had a different plan for his future.
02:04I would be either applying to European universities or I would just be studying.
02:09I was planning to go underground and study computer science and all.
02:13I was not as talented or famous as Goni.
02:17I just did some one-off thing and I just got a little bit famous from the media.
02:23I mean, the job I was doing should have been done by an actual journalist,
02:26but it's all right. If I'm having the attention, I should enjoy it.
02:31That curiosity didn't begin with the CBS investigation.
02:34Long before the headlines, Sarthak was building something called Darshi.
02:38I've almost readied a prototype where you can scan a pothole, put a picture of a pothole.
02:43The location goes in and it understands where the pothole is.
02:48Is it on the footpath or is it on the wall or whatever?
02:51And then it finds out in the registry and database that it has to understand which junior engineer,
02:59which ward parts are or whatever, who's as part of it.
03:01Any thoughts on Kokra Chanda Party?
03:03I do not want to get political, but I believe there was a protest that happened two days ago.
03:08Protests are a good pressure move.
03:11Protests are good for democracy and a fundamental human right.
03:14When asked what he would change as education minister,
03:17Sarthak broke it down into three things.
03:19The current way we have with JE and NEET is way more dogmatic than it should be.
03:25It is way more rules-based and way more logic-based.
03:28I would change that to be a little more adaptive of all the students in the system.
03:34I would also encourage mental health of the students because a lot of students are suffering
03:41from something and we do not know about them.
03:43So I would encourage the mental health of the students.
03:45I would make some transparency changes because I want to be as transparent as possible.
03:49As an institution listed.
03:50For now, Sarthak Siddhant remains what he says he's always been.
03:54A curious turin who saw something that didn't make sense and decided to keep digging.
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