Kovid Kapoor's jokes about his name have made him a social media sensation. The 31-year-old's Twitter profile declares: "My name is Kovid and I am not a virus." Kovid is a highly unusual name in India but means a scholar or a learned individual in Hindi and Sanskrit, with the 'd' pronounced with a very soft emphasis. "Future foreign trips are going to be fun!" he said in a tweet that had been liked 40,000 times and received 4,000 retweets in a few days. The comment triggered a barrage of jokes, memes, messages and interview requests, in a moment of light relief as the highly contagious Omicron variant sees case numbers surge in India. The Holidify co-founder admits that he thinks his new found fame is "really crazy".