Sugar-coated warning: Coronavirus-shaped 'sandesh' in Kolkata for awareness

Sugar-coated warning

Call it their creative best or worst, owners of a sweetmeat chain in Kolkata are presenting the deadly coronavirus with a different taste, literally. Before you decide to boycott the shop, Hindustan Sweets, and warn others about it, here is the deal. They are selling a sandesh, shaped like the novel coronavirus, with a red spherical body covered with spikes. By blending one of Bengal's most savoured sweetmeat with the name of the pandemic, the owners aim to lift "the spirits of the people". To buttress this claim, they are also giving a pamphlet bearing anti-Covid-19 slogans and