He was banned within the hour. But he was right about one thing: the tide was turning.
A user named RetiredRailway_1956 —a seventy-two-year-old widower in Bhopal—would post long, rambling threads about the moral lessons in Buniyaad . He typed in ALL CAPS and used fifteen exclamation marks per sentence. Everyone loved him. When his internet bill went unpaid one month, users from the UK, Australia, and Dubai pooled money and sent it to him via Western Union. He never knew their real names. He called them "mere bachche" —my children. apna desi tv forum
And then there was the "Uncle Zone."