00:00I never thought intentionally that I would say that.
00:39I never wanted you all to see me like that.
00:42Now let's move 6,000 kilometers away to Germany.
00:45Recently, students at a school did something long overdue for a man whose identity nobody knows.
00:51He had been hanging in their biology lab for decades, a classroom skeleton used as a teaching prop.
00:57They discovered he was a real man.
00:59Most likely, he had been hanging in their biology lab for decades, a classroom skeleton used as a teaching prop.
00:59A family Indian, one among thousands of davers exported to Europe during the British colonial era for medical research.
01:06So the student gave him a name, Niran.
01:09This body, which was nearly two decades old, was finally buried on 5th June.
01:14They built a coffin.
01:15They gathered as a school community.
01:16They acknowledged that this man, whoever he was, had spent decades reduced to a prop
01:21and that he deserved, at the very minimum, to be put to rest with dignity.
01:25Nobody knew his religion.
01:27Nobody knew his family.
01:28Nobody knew his story.
01:29But they knew he was a person and they acted like it.
01:32So let's just place these two things side by side.
01:35Nobody is saying dark humor doesn't exist in medicine.
01:38Every doctor, every med student knows that anatomy labs are intense.
01:43That sometimes humor is how you cope.
01:46That's human.
01:46But there's a line between coping privately and performing disrespect publicly for entertainment.
01:52And that line was crossed, loudly, on stage, on camera.
01:59So let's go.
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