“Shopping hote rehti, mask pehenna zaroori hai” (Shopping can continue, but wearing a mask is important), emphasises a face mask vendor stationed outside the Ajante Gate at the Nampally exhibition grounds urging customers waiting to attend the ‘Numaish’ to mask up.
Even though many buy the masks from the vendors outside the exhibition, once they got hold of the entry tickets and set foot inside the venue, most of them discard their masks in the dustbins nearby.
Numaish, or as it is officially labelled, the 83rd All India Industrial Exhibition, is the annual shopping carnival of Hyderabad that draws buyers and sellers from across Telangana.
