Comedian Samay Raina returned with his first special, Still Alive, on his YouTube channel on April 7, 14 months after the India's Got Talent controversy in February 2025.
Fame used to be effortless. All you needed was a viral Koffee With Karan rapid fire moment. You didn’t need a lukewarm Spotify deal or a rebranding sob story.
Ranveer Allahabadia's controversial remarks on 'India's Got Latent' spark massive backlash, highlighting the risks and responsibilities for influencers in India's volatile social media landscape.
The court also allowed Ranveer Allahbadia—popularly known as ‘BeerBiceps’—to resume his podcast ‘The Ranveer Show’ provided the content did not breach standards of morality, decency.
These hypocrites give comedy a bad name, but no Indian citizen should have the full weight of the state used against them over a joke, no matter how crass.
Protection is subject to Allahbadia joining probe & staying away from 'India’s Got Latent'. SC asked his counsel how obscenity would be defined in a society following 'self-evolved values'.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
For deluded individuals fighting against the imaginary monster of authoritarianism, every single thing on earth has to be interpreted in political terms. And even in politics, everything is a game of quid pro quo for them.
Ranveer Allahbadia or Samay Raina have never identified with or championed the cause of any political party or ideology. They took potshots against every single political party and leader. They targeted every ideology and exposed the hollowness of each one if them. For example, Allahbadia tweeted extensively about his love for beef and exhorted fellow Hindus to consume beef.
But for people like Vir Sanghvi, anyone who sits down with a BJP leader and has a chat or, God forbid, interviews a right-wing politician, is a bootlicker of the incumbent government.
Just because someone does not conform to Mr. Sanghvi’s idea of politics and ideology, he gets labelled as a “vile rabble-rouser”.
For deluded individuals fighting against the imaginary monster of authoritarianism, every single thing on earth has to be interpreted in political terms. And even in politics, everything is a game of quid pro quo for them.
Ranveer Allahbadia or Samay Raina have never identified with or championed the cause of any political party or ideology. They took potshots against every single political party and leader. They targeted every ideology and exposed the hollowness of each one if them. For example, Allahbadia tweeted extensively about his love for beef and exhorted fellow Hindus to consume beef.
But for people like Vir Sanghvi, anyone who sits down with a BJP leader and has a chat or, God forbid, interviews a right-wing politician, is a bootlicker of the incumbent government.
Just because someone does not conform to Mr. Sanghvi’s idea of politics and ideology, he gets labelled as a “vile rabble-rouser”.