{"id":911220,"date":"2025-03-04T11:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T05:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=911220"},"modified":"2025-03-04T11:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T05:31:15","slug":"perplexity-ai-steps-in-as-suresh-sambandam-questions-kumbh-mela-2025-visitor-count-heres-what-it-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/03\/04\/perplexity-ai-steps-in-as-suresh-sambandam-questions-kumbh-mela-2025-visitor-count-heres-what-it-said\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity AI steps in as Suresh Sambandam questions Kumbh Mela 2025 visitor count: Here\u2019s what it said.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suresh Sambandam, the founder of Kissflow and co-founder of Saasboomi, has come under fire on X after questioning the reported figure of 66 crore (660 million) visitors at the Maha Kumbh Mela 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to the social media platform, Sambandam expressed scepticism over the statistics, stating: \u201cI saw news items saying 66 crore visited. India has a population of 140 crore. That is roughly 50% of the entire country. There are 25 crore children under age 10 in India and another 10-15 crore elderly, sick, physically challenged people. Christians and Muslims 20 crores. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suresh Sambandam, the founder of Kissflow and co-founder of Saasboomi, has come under fire on X after questioning the reported figure of 66 crore (660 million) visitors at the Maha Kumbh Mela 2025. Taking to the social media platform, Sambandam expressed scepticism over the statistics, stating: \u201cI saw news items saying 66 crore visited. India has a population of 140 crore. That is roughly 50% of the entire country. There are 25 crore children under age 10 in India and another 10-15 crore elderly, sick, physically challenged people. Christians and Muslims 20 crores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}