Twitter trends: 2021's good, bad, happy and sad through hashtags

The microblogging site, which was at the centre of many things, became the default Covid-19 helpline for people

A year of hashtags. That’s one of the many ways to look at 2021. Several hashtags captured the big moments of the year that is now coming to a close. According to Twitter, between January 1 and November 15, #Covid19, #FarmersProtest, #TeamIndia, #Tokyo2020, #IPL2021, #IndVEng, #Diwali, #Master, #Bitcoin and #PermissionToDance were the most tweeted hashtags of 2021 in India.

The microblogging site, which was at the centre of many things — some good, some bad and a lot of it sad — became the default Covid-19 helpline for people, especially during the second wave of the pandemic in India. It was