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Tuesday, July 29, 2025
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Topic: comedy

‘The Office’ Hindi version: Can Hotstar pull off a successful adaptation of the mega show?

Hotstar is now streaming an Indian adaptation of the mega-popular sitcom, 'The Office'.

Fewer Pakistanis are going to cinema halls because Indian films keep getting banned

Distributors in Pakistan say the absence of Indian films always affects business since very few in the country watch Hollywood films.

Total Dhamaal review: An exercise in mediocrity that would make mediocre look better

The third instalment in the Dhamaal series has all the animals and actors in the zoo but not one funny bone.

‘Padosan’ can’t be made in today’s Republic of Easy Offended India

Cult comedy Padosan features Hindi cinema’s most popular duet and never runs out of laughs.

Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette reclaims space for women in comedy

Hannah Gadsby suggests that if her routine sounds like a diatribe against cis white men, it is so.

Indian comedians need lessons from Michelle Wolf: They’ve forgotten how to punch up

Laughing at ourselves is an art Indians, across the political spectrum, have failed to master.

इन नाजुक भावनाओं, जो हर बात पर आहत हो जाती हैं, का क्या करें?

हम भावनाएं आहत होनेवाली ऐसी पीढ़ी के साथ जी रहे हैं जिनको सवाल पूछना नहीं सिखाया गया है. एचओएच यानी ह्युमन्स ऑफ हिंदुत्व उनका ताज़ातरीन शिकार है.

Even during Holocaust comedy had thrived. But today’s India could not handle Humans of Hindutva

We are witnessing a generation of offence-takers who have been taught not to question authority, to mindlessly conform. HoH is their latest victim.

On Camera

No one should have to choose between a roof and two meals. But India’s migrants do, every day

India’s policymakers need to ensure that labourers, and milk and newspaper delivery workers, do not have to sacrifice food just to keep a roof over their heads.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India’s air defence system foiled 1,000 Pakistani drone attacks on 9 May—Modi tells Parliament

New Delhi: India’s air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 1,000 drones and missiles launched by Pakistan on 9 May during Op Sindoor, Prime Minister...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.