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31 Dec 20, 7 tweets, 1 min read
I have only one tip for would be entrepreneurs. Make your signature short. Sala, bahut sign maarne padte hain.
I hate my signature. I'm stuck with it ever since I 'created' it for my 10th standard boards. Someone should have told me that it would haunt me all my life.
People with long names, you don't have to spell it all out. This is for you, Anantapadmanabhaswami. You can reduce your name to A scrawl i. Thank me when your accountant thumps a 79 page agreement to be signed in three directions on every page.
I invented delightful, practical, sensible, impressive signatures for myself as life progressed. But I was handcuffed to my adolescent indiscretion. Spelling my entire name out and ending the last letter with a silly flourish and two dots.
Every time my accountant says, 'Sir, kuchh sign karna hai', I groan. It's like an imposition. I put it off as much as I can. And when I do get down to it, my signature degenerates faster than a message transmitted by a bunch of drunks playing chinese whispers.
Before I get stretch my agony too thin, let me sign off.

ANTHE
Oops. *Before I stretch my agony too thin, let me sign off.

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