Prime Minister Narendra Modi went into candid mode during his interaction with the top professional gamers of India. One of the guests and a pro esports athlete, Animesh Agarwal aka Thug narrated his education journey and said that he started studying at a very young age. The Prime Minister without missing this opportunity, showed his wit and jokingly said, “Everyone starts at a young age only.”
PM Modi also joked about Agarwal’s gaming name and said, “There’s a problem. Now when people think of a thug then they will remember you and when they see you they will think he is a good man so how can we call him thug.” Agarwal responded by saying that he has made a decent name for himself in the gaming industry due to which people see ‘Thug’ in a respectful way.
Parents’ Concerns About Their Children Pursuing Gaming
Anshu Bisht aka GamerFleet talked about how his family was facing a tough situation financially before he decided to pursue gaming. He said, “I am from a lower-middle-class family. My father worked as a bus conductor in a private school for 30 years so that I and my sister could study in the school. I started giving tuition to kids to earn, took a few jobs and made a computer for myself. Since the financial condition was not that good, it was understandable for them to think that their child was spending his whole day yelling in front of a computer. As in if you yell out of excitement while playing then only viewers will also be interested and think that he is having so much fun.”
The Prime Minister was spot on with his one-liner again and said, “Basically you also have to act while playing to increase viewership.”
Esports athlete Naman Mathur aka Mortal talked about how he got into gaming and said that he developed his interest in it by watching YouTube after which PM Modi said, “I (Mortal) am obsessed with this so you also become.”
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