The Colukabki Disease
IIT Bombay student Anupam Biswas 5th Year Mechanical Engg is suffering from Colukabki (caused due to excessive nabad and depression) a disease very rarely found (3 in a billion). His condition is very pathetic and the treatment is very expensive, obviously his parents are not able to afford his treatment. Orkut has agreed to pay 1 paisa after each time this message is forward. So please pass to all ur friends.
Colukabki is a pretty interesting disease. It is one of those rare diseases that are not indexed by google and no information can be found on it. When I get this kind of spam from well meaning friends, I am left wondering how could they be so stupid. Okay, most people who have forwarded this message are not stupid per se, its just that they probably know it well enough that companies (Google, Orkut, Yahoo, MSN etc etc) don’t pay people to forward messages but somehow forget this when faced with a message that could “help save a life”. Something to do with human psychology?
Oh Btw, I was under the impression that Engineering courses were of 4 year duration, since when did we have a 5th year Mechanical Engineering student?
Posted under: Thoughts
Tagged with: Colukabki, disease, forward, spam
February 6th, 2007 at 22:46:15
Hehe, right on. And how would orkut know a message has been forwarded anyway? Colukabki… what imagination :roll:? Some people can be so stupid believing such things. More stupid, spammers who actually goof up like that “5 year course” thingy :)).
February 7th, 2007 at 14:27:32
Didn’t Einstein say this or something to this effect:
Universe may have a boundary, but Human Stupidity knows no bounds… :)
Even you can write such a email, and send it to All the people on your address book, you bet - a quarter of them are going to forward it to ALL the people in their address books.
February 10th, 2007 at 20:17:52
well it seems that colukabki is nothing but i want to clear the misconception among many observers that the eng course combined Btech and Mtech is of 5 yr and is offered from many colleges also there is another word in this message ‘nabad’ try searching this word also in google and u will end up with National
Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development in India and somalia embassy!!!
February 16th, 2007 at 12:19:43
IITs are conducting 5 year engg. courses.
after which you can get an M.Tech.
While joining IIT the student has the option for choosing one of these
either 5 year M.Tech or 4 year B.Tech
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:26:25
Hey I wanna make u all clear about the word “Nabad”. It’s IIT-Bombay Lingo for “A tense state of mind”(Its short form of Nervous Break Down - NBD)
May 27th, 2007 at 06:05:10
I must say that you’re right. most of the people forward such messages without even thinking twice, and that has all to do with the human psych. They do their ‘good deed of the day’ by forwarding such messages. Leon is right there is a five-year M.Tech. Dual Degree Course offered by four IITs. my friend’s acquaintance is doing one in aero-space engg. from kharagpur.
June 22nd, 2007 at 13:48:42
hehehehe…. next time if anyone of u wants to invent a new diseas, please cinsult a medical student… it wil be a bit more sensible
February 4th, 2008 at 20:35:46
for ur kind information we do hav a 5 yr dual degree courses in IITs…n judging on d fact dat a 5 yr engnrng student is not possibl is weird…so i suggest u to mak a correction over dere..i know dat dis kind of disease does not exist…i too got dis message…
February 11th, 2008 at 07:48:58
i am not sooo stupid
March 5th, 2008 at 19:28:27
there’s no point discussin these minor points guys…
we are just the minority…
look around guys…the world is full of nincompoops!!!
March 11th, 2008 at 21:32:12
all diseases come from bad soul,if anupam restore our soul he will become healthy,god bless u
April 10th, 2008 at 12:33:44
I saw the scrap in one of my friends scrapbook, and before forwarding it, i thought i should be checking about the disease condition and to my surprise there was nothing like that in any of the search engines (google,MSN,yahoo) so please dont get carried away by such things please check before doing anything it might well be saving someones life as in hindi it is always said “bhale logon ka zamana nahi raha.” “Colukabki ” beware of such words and please do check and verify it.
April 29th, 2008 at 14:04:26
welll…u all fools..he has writtn 5th sem….nt 5th yr….5th sem is….3rd yr…..ok…….n well tht disease which he refers rare of rarest …i dont know anythng abt tht…so better …i shud nt comment…..
May 8th, 2008 at 00:41:18
By the way, it is not Colukabki, but Nervous Break Down (NBD or nabad) is a big problem among IIT students. When I was at IIT Bombay, one student had committed suicide, another 5th year collapsed and died due to exhaustion, while one had slashed his wrists. Another at IIT Kanpur had also committed suicide. The issue rocked the IITs and we ended up losing 13 hours from 24 hours of internet connection per day.
A group at IIT Bombay made a very touching short play called Deja Vu on this issue. Worth watching.
So the problem is real, though the context is of spam.
May 19th, 2008 at 11:30:32
I m one of the stupid who forwarded this message to all my friends. But i thought it was for a good cause. Usually what happens is if once we get the idea that its all scrap then we guys tend to avoid all such messages even when one of it really is true. How to come across such spam is really a big question. Well plz if any one could tell me how then i wopnt make the mistake again……
May 19th, 2008 at 15:16:39
Anup, when you see a mail in which some company agrees to pay a monitory amount for forwarding a mail; it is in all probability a fake. Hope this helps :-)
May 21st, 2008 at 19:19:18
Can i get any information about this rare disease which is called here as “Colukabki”??
June 4th, 2008 at 01:31:09
all this shit is created by fuckin dumb madarchods who dont even know how to put up things genuinely……. hahaha!!!!
June 7th, 2008 at 23:11:44
hey! i think ur blog has made some difference(& given some people a bit more knowledge abt Engg course duration)..
coz today i got the same forwarded e-mail.
The only difference is that now the sick guy is in 5TH SEM…
i think he got detained/failed or some thing of that kind.. :)
July 17th, 2008 at 09:01:15
5th year in Mech Engg!!!!!!!! quite interesting…. i never knew that in our country colleges offer an extra year of engg course!!!! i think i should send a scrap to my frien d who send me this, as to check ur blog Sajith…….
gud job done man…………
July 18th, 2008 at 01:53:58
some poeples are having doubt that 5th yr is not is there in BE , but in iit there is 5 yrs dual degree,
this is definatly true that colukabki disease does not exit, i have searched every possible doccument for this.
July 19th, 2008 at 00:44:39
I am not a stupid to belive this.for being a medical student i never heard a word like coluabki.i searched many indian and foreign books about this.nothig i met like this word in psychiatry also. friends.dont be a stupid to belive this.pls end this utter stupidity by warning the forwarders of this msg.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:41:06
COLUKABKI — this is the creation of a Idle brain forwarded to idiotic brains and being discussed by moron minds.its A FUSSSS. trust me
dr.SK
August 25th, 2008 at 22:19:30
To,
Mr. Intelligent.
The scrap says 5th semester not 5th year. I hope u know what 5th sem is.
September 6th, 2008 at 14:57:20
hehe i got that scrap 2-3 years ago..and also recvd yestday..anb i wonder if hes stil in iit bombay due to colubaki somthng hehe
September 17th, 2008 at 22:11:08
hai i got the same scrap but in that they mentioned as 5th sem.recently i got another message in yahoo which has the same meaning but about an indian student in america.
is there any way to avoid that type of messages??
is the social networks like orkut,yahoo etc., will really pay any amount to that peoples if it is true???
please any one give answer to my last question
October 2nd, 2008 at 23:06:19
It is basic human psychology!!! ofcourse u dont lose anythin by forwarding a msg!! and if it really saves a life den it worth doing it. Just because ten of them are fake , a genuine one must not be ignored! thats how i operate!!!! I dont have the time to check whether the disease is true or not. Being a doctor myself, I am aware that there are so many diseases existing without our knowledge. How many of u guys know about popliteal pterygium syndrome? So if you wanna do a good deed , do it. Dont discourage others from doing it. How sure are you that the companies dont pay for it? So better leave things as they are. Nature has its own way of dealing with such things. So if u wanna forward , forward or else delete it and dont make an issue outta it!!!! Its a request!
October 2nd, 2008 at 23:25:08
And for u guys not to underestimate the broad medical world, I am preparing a list of rare hard to believe diseases. I’ll post it once I’m done with it.
October 4th, 2008 at 13:27:46
hello nbd is (national bank of dubai)
October 7th, 2008 at 10:19:47
When we comments, we must careful, if we said good in a bad style it becomes worthless,
Let us ask one question from advisor what is stupidity?
October 8th, 2008 at 00:02:22
bro its 5th semester not 5th yr……………………….consider da fact that 1 semester=6 months only …………………………………use ur mind
October 10th, 2008 at 16:10:04
Such mails spoils the reputation of Premier institute like IIT.
People who are genuine and need of help also get affected by such mails.
October 11th, 2008 at 13:02:04
Blame all the idiots who forwards it to others without verifying the truth……