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The funny story of "Kovid", the Indian whose first name has gone viral

2022-01-07T15:21:35.328Z


For more than two years, this 31-year-old Indian entrepreneur has shared his first name with the Covid-19 pandemic, a real upheaval in


When he goes to order a coffee at Starbucks from now on, Kovid Kapoor asks that we do not announce his first name to the cantonade so as not to cause a general laughter.

This 31-year-old Indian, boss of a travel start-up, made the buzz on Twitter announcing that he had this week traveled abroad for the first time since the start of the pandemic, and that his first name had "Amused a lot of people".

Having such a first name these days is not without consequences, but Kovid Kapoor prefers to joke about funny situations that have accompanied him since the appearance of Covid-19.

“My future trips abroad are going to be fun!

", He launched on the same account, a message which received 40,000" likes "and was retweeted 4000 times, adding that his first name helped him today to break the ice in the meetings.

Went outside India for the first time since COVID and got a bunch of people amused by my name.

😂



Future foreign trips are going to be fun!

- Kovid Kapoor (@kovidkapoor) January 4, 2022

"The funny thing is that at my place we have been making these jokes for almost two years and it is surprising that it is only going viral now," he replied on India Today.

Another anecdote is told on his Twitter account: a friend who thought of giving him a surprise for his birthday ordered a cake in his name from Amintiri, the Indian birthday cake specialist.

Once the cake was delivered, they noticed that the message read: “Happy Birthday Covid-30.

The pastry chain was immediately amused by the error on social networks, to the delight of Internet users.

Thanks, Amintiri, for correcting the error 😂😂


Looking forward to the free cake.

pic.twitter.com/6swUn8OUZ4

- Kovid Kapoor (@kovidkapoor) January 7, 2022

If he prefers to laugh about it, certain situations make his life more complicated, now that he shares his name with a virus.

Gmail's artificial intelligence constantly suggests to him that the correct spelling of his first name is ... "Covid", reports India Today.

He even had to modify the short introductory sentence of his Twitter account which is now: “My name is Kovid, and I am not a virus.

"

"A memorable name"

But there is no question for Kovid to change his first name, of which he remains extremely proud.

"I will not change for the world," he reveals.

In Hindi and Sanskrit it means a scholar or an educated individual and is not widely used in India.

His mother, he explained, had chosen his first name long before he was born.

“It's a memorable name with a beautiful meaning,” he said.

“He makes an impression when I introduce myself.

"

The entrepreneur told AFP that he was hopeful that all this publicity would reflect on his business, which is in difficulty like all those in the sector.

“Life threw me (and all of us) a sour lemon, I just decided to take it all in a good mood and make lemonade out of it,” he poetically concluded in the Indian weekly.

Source: leparis

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