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The humour in tragedy
Updated On: 27 February, 2022 08:05 AM IST | Mumbai | Phorum Pandya
The low-key head of a pharma firm making the pill that pulled people through discomfort during infection and vaccination, is tickled that it has inspired memes
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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.
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