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‘Resign now, kal panvel nikalna hai’—Humour is doing serious work at CJP protests

This is the first Indian mass protest whose native language is the funny Instagram reel. You can control media narratives, but you cannot arrest a thousand memes.

Who laughs the most at a dad joke? Science has an answer

The study, yet to be published in a peer-reviewed publication, analysed over 32,000 posts made on the subreddit r/dadjokes.

Noida has a new sector. It’s called humour

Move to Noida and your dating scene is dead. Not many to swipe right.

The real winner of India-Pakistan T20 WC clash, and ‘son’ is easier to catch than ‘Don’

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Burning issues’ in India & what the US left behind in Afghanistan

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Clouds’ over Monsoon session, and ‘attack’ of the Pegasus

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Ramdev’s comments on allopathy, and Covid’s vicious urban-rural circle

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Strategies’ to deal with Covid-19 & and farewell to Sunderlal Bahuguna

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

What makes a joke funny or offensive? Who is telling it matters

Many of us intuitively understand it’s more permissible for people to openly judge or criticise social groups they belong to than those they do not belong to.

We should take humour in the workplace more seriously

Humour lets people know that we like and understand them, enabling us to build and nurture relationships across hierarchies and cultural divides.

On Camera

Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.