It is a most unattractive habit but one that is regrettably very common – the chewing of gutkha (chewing tobacco) followed by a stream of red spittle deposited anywhere and everywhere. Those disgusting emissions – paan ki peek – can be found deposited on roads and footpaths, stairwells and lift shafts, trains and busses, and apparently in planes as well. This image of a gutkha stain inside an aircraft is viral.
This tweet by Awanish Sharan, IAS is viral. People who chew gutkha wouldn’t be objectionable (if someone wants to court mouth cancer, that is their funeral) if they didn’t display a complete inability to control that urge to spit.
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