A friend of mine has a biometric security system at home; you have to punch your thumbprint before you’re allowed to enter. One day she had a bandage around her thumbs and so she couldn’t enter her house at all,” laughs Pranav Tonseker. This was such an unusually funny situation that the 21 year-old just had to make a meme about it and share it on Facebook. “Offices have such security — who has such a system at home?” he adds, incredulously.

Abhishek Samant believes that Indians too can create local characters that can go viral. (Left) A couple of memes he has created. Pic/ Sameer Markande