The Third Edit: Ed Sheeran just found that India is not for beginners

Editorial

Feb 11, 2025 07:30 IST First published on: Feb 11, 2025 astatine 07:30 IST

India is not for beginners. So goes a viral meme featuring a enactment of images: A antheral getting his beard shaved connected a motorcycle parked by the broadside of a road; different riding a cattle down a engaged street; a announcement astatine a petrol pump that reads “you can’t get petrol successful integrative bottles here”. Even beyond the stereotypes, the uninitiated should expect sights and experiences that happen, arsenic the 1998 opus featuring Govinda enactment it, “only successful India”. On Sunday, different representation — of planetary popular prima Ed Sheeran being interrupted by a bushed bull portion busking connected Church Street successful Bengaluru — joined the ranks.

But Sheeran, who began his vocation busking successful the UK and has since done astonishment performances crossed the world, is nary alien to India. He marked his performance debut present successful 2015 and has returned respective times. He has collaborated with galore Indian artists, adjacent singing successful Hindi, Telugu and Punjabi. Yet, the state managed to instrumentality him by astonishment when, contempt support to execute — arsenic helium claimed successful a connection aboriginal — his thoroughfare performance was unceremoniously ended erstwhile a bull pulled the plug connected it. This is hardly a one-off acquisition for planetary artists. In 2015, comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s first-ever show successful India was cancelled implicit parking issues successful Mumbai. Another comic, Trevor Noah, was precocious to his ain amusement successful Bengaluru aft getting stuck successful a postulation jam and had to telephone disconnected 2 shows implicit method issues. In India, the biggest of stars should beryllium prepared for humbling experiences, whether astatine the hands of a bull oregon conscionable plain uncontrollable circumstances.