He left his job with Google to become a YouTuber. And with the quirky handle of ‘Official Peeing Human’, Ramit Verma in his late twenties has been exposing falsehood, bigotry and chicanery of a large section of the Indian media and politicians.

While his YouTube videos go viral and his facebook page and Twitter handle draw followers in droves, he is in the news for launching a public petition against a communal programme on a Hindi news channel. The petition had been signed by over 80 thousand people within the first few days.

Verma, an avid media watcher, wrote in a recent article in Newslaundry that nationalism had trumped rationalism on Hindi News TV at least. The Indian ‘Modia’, his pun on ‘media’ favourably disposed to Narendra Modi, are no longer neutral, fair or rational. While he has been busy showing a mirror to ‘Modia’ through humour and satire, Verma also studied the airtime that news channels devote to major issues.