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40 Times Amul Summed Up India In 2016 In Puns

Utterly butterly brilliant.

2016 has been a rollercoaster, to say the least. Amul in its inimitable way, has found a way to comment on everything happening in the country and around the world with its irresistible puns. Here are some of the best ones:

1. When Vijay Mallya fled the country during bad times.

2. When Bollywood's biggest scandal confused and amused all of us.

3. When no one wanted to let go of the coolest RBI Governor we have ever known.

4. When Sonu Nigam tried entertaining Jet Airways' passengers and got the crew in trouble.

5. When Neerja Bhanot made her way into people's hearts 30 years after her death.

6. When the RSS decided to let go of their trademark shorts in lieu of pants.

7. When Dhoni sassed an Australian reporter during a press conference.

8. On the Panama papers.

9. When playing the IPL in Mumbai came under fire for using water in Maharashtra during drought.

10. When the Royal Couple had Bollywood starstruck.

11. When Salman Khan was appointed the Goodwill Ambassador for the Rio Olympics.

12. When Gurgaon had an identity crisis.

13. When Dipa Karmakar became the first Indian gymnast to qualify for the Olympics.

14. When Aishwarya Rai wow'd us with her lipstick game.

15. When women retained power in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.

16. When a Snapchat story created headlines across the country.

17. When Udta Punjab was at the centre of controversy after the Censor Board asked for a ridiculous number of cuts to it.

18. When Kumble found a way back into our lives as India's head coach.

19. When catching Pokémon became a little too real.

20. When Kabali made Rajini fever cool again.

21. When Ola's and Uber's surge prices drove us up the wall.

22. When Harry Potter's latest installment made us feel like kids again.

23. When PV Sindhu bagged the silver medal at the Rio Olympics in a tense badminton match.

24. When Sakshi Malik made India proud in a nail-biting wrestling match at the Rio Olympics.

25. On Pullela Gopichand and his stellar coaching abilities.

26. When India's culture ministry advised tourists againsts wearing skirts while travelling in India.

27. When the telcos were taken by surprise after Reliance launched Jio.

28. When our champions took over Brazil at the Paralympics.

29. On the Cauvery river dispute between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

30. When Bollywood made consent cool.

31. On the surgical strikes by the Indian Army.

32. When Pakistani artistes were banned from working in Indian movies.

33. When Virat Kohli was awarded with the ICC Test championship mace for making India the world's top test team.

34. When Cyrus Mistry was ousted from the post of Tata group chairman.

35. When popular news anchor Arnab Goswami resigned from his post as editor-in-chief at Times Now.

36. On the smog caused by firecrackers that enveloped Delhi post-Diwali.

37. When Donald Trump was announced as the next U.S. President-Elect.

38. When ₹500 and ₹1,000 notes were taken out of circulation

39. When the long ATM queues caused a lot of chaos in the country.

40. On Coldplay performing in India for the first time at the Global Citizen Festival.

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