An Indian man named Kovid, which means learned in Sanskrit, has shared his experience living with a name that sparks hilarious reactions among people during the raging Covid pandemic in a Twitter thread that has gone viral.
“For those on this thread, wondering what my name actually means – it means scholar/learned,” wrote Kovid Kapoor, co-founder of travel platform Holidify.
Mr Kapoor tweeted that he had a string of funny experiences as he went abroad for the first time in two years since the Covid-19 pandemic started.
“Went outside India for the first time since COVID and got a bunch of people amused by my name,” he tweeted. “Future foreign trips are going to be fun!”
As the tweet went viral, Mr Kapoor shared encounters over the past two years.
“For my 30th bday, my friends ordered a cake – and Amintiri automatically assumed that it’s some kinda joke, and it should be spelled with a C not a K.”
In another tweet he posted a photo of himself holding a Corona beer and…