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Anand Mahindra tweets about 'daring mountain roads of India', Twitter offers him a ride

The exchange between industrialist Anand Mahindra and former Norwegian diplomat Erik Solheim prompted other Twitter users to join in. While some shared their experience of driving on the Kolli Hills Road, others offered the chairman of Mahindra Group a ride.

January 09, 2022 / 19:22 IST
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Expressing wonder at Tamil Nadu's Kolli Hills Road, Anand Mahindra told former Norwegian diplomat and politician Erik Solheim, "You keep showing me how little I know about my own country! This is just phenomenal."
Expressing wonder at Tamil Nadu's Kolli Hills Road, Anand Mahindra told former Norwegian diplomat and politician Erik Solheim, "You keep showing me how little I know about my own country! This is just phenomenal."

When former Norwegian diplomat, politician Erik Solheim put up a post on Twitter about a road in Tamil Nadu which he considered to be "one of the most daring mountain roads of India", industrialist Anand Mahindra responded to it with wonder and declared that he could only trust his company-made Thar to take him on it.

What followed what a delightful exchange between Twitter users and Mahindra with a few people even offering the chairman of the Mahindra Group a ride.

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It all started when Solheim shared a photo of Kolli Hills Road in Namakkal Tamil Nadu, stating that with 70 continuous hairpin bends, it was one of the most daring mountain roads of India.

Retweeting it, Mahindra declared, "I want to find out who built this road and then I will only trust my Thar to take me on it!"

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