If there was one thing that overtook the popularity of dalgona coffee and banana bread on social media during the Coronavirus-induced lockdowns, it was Dolo 650, an analgesic (pain killer) and antipyretic (fever-reducing) tablet that addresses flu-like symptoms. Social media creators managed to turn the humble paracetamol into a larger-than-life meme star during the third Coronavirus wave headlined by the highly transmissible Omicron variant.  

A flurry of memes flooded Twitter with wit: Pehle Polo, ab Dolo. There was another one with the face of Nawazudin Siddiqui with the line, kabhi kabhi lagta hai, apun-ich vaccine hai, alluding to the famous line from Sacred Games where Siddiqui’s character, don Ganesh Gaitonde compares himself to God.