Anand Mahindra Hitchhiked On Trucks From Mumbai To Pune; Shares Throwback Pic From 1972

by Tania Tarafdar
Anand Mahindra Hitchhiked On Trucks From Mumbai To Pune; Shares Throwback Pic From 1972

If you did not follow Anand Mahindra’s Twitter account yet, you should follow it right now! Full of inspirational posts and videos, The Chairman of Mahindra Group religiously uses Twitter to share fond memories from yesteryears. In his latest Twitter post, Anand Mahindra shared a picture of the best weekends of his youth. In his post, he talked about how he used to hitchhike between Mumbai to Poona.

Anand Mahindra Shared A Throwback Pic From 1972

The picture was from 1972 when he was 17 years old. The tycoon wrote in the caption about how he would spend his weekends, and it will make you nostalgic. Reminiscing the best weekends of my youth, he wrote, “In ‘72 -I was 17. A friend and I used to often hitchhike from ‘Bombay’ to ‘Poona’, taking rides on trucks. That’s probably when I developed my love for the open road. The movie ‘Parichay’ had come out and we would sing ‘Musafir Hoon Yaaron.”

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The Post Will Make You Instantly Nostalgic

However, if this post got you homesick, you’re not alone. Since being shared, the post has gathered thousands of likes and the numbers are only kept increasing. Twitteratis bombarded the post with comments and heart emoticons in their replies. While one user wrote “So nice!” another commented, “What happened between ‘Musafir hoon yaaron’ and THE MAHINDRA?”. He responded by quoting an amazing line from the song.

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President Ram Nath Kovind recently presented Anand Mahindra with the Padma Bhushan award for his contributions to the industry and the trade. The tycoon expressed his gratitude on Twitter.