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Updated On: 05 April, 2020 07:15 AM IST | Rahul da Cunha

I learnt two things with this demo. 1. To evade boredom while soaping your hands, sing. 2. To do this, copy a famous song, add your own lyrics, but keep in under 30 secs so you can't be sued for copywright.

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Rahul da CunhaWith so much time on my hands during this COVID lockdown, I have learnt a lot. For example, I've memorised the alphabets backwards, and also learnt how to make 'baingan bharta'. Okay, I'm kidding. But, there was one thing that I thought I had truly mastered—the art of washing my hands. But, no such luck. Turns out, thanks to social media, something called a #SafeHandsChallenge popped up. So, I understand the #BottleCapChallenge and the #IceBucketChallenge, but the #SafeHandsChallenge—that too promoted by the World Health Organisation—piqued my curiosity. So I went online to learn more, and found that President Trump challenged Prime Minister Johnson, to the #SafeHandsChallenge.

I mean a #ItchyFingersChallenge, I would understand, played only by world leaders, with each teasing the other with a nuclear threat, but this, I was confused.

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