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Monday, July 28, 2025
TopicStand up comedy

Topic: Stand up comedy

‘I don’t fear this mob,’ Kunal Kamra refuses to apologise for stand-up act on Eknath Shinde

The comic further criticised the vandalism of the Habitat Comedy Club in Khar as well as a hotel in whose premises the club is located, calling it 'senseless'.

Actor-comedian Vir Das bags Emmy Award for Best Comedy for his Netflix special

Awarded for his special, 'Vir Das: Landing', Das shares this award with ‘Derry Girls - Season 3’ produced by Hat Trick Productions.

UPSC struggle is now the stuff of Indian pop culture—stand-up, TVF series, Bollywood, memes

Doctors and engineers have been replaced by IPS, IAS officers. Their journey and struggles have taken over the screen, be it through memes or movies.

Vir Das: Landing speaks out unapologetically against India’s ‘cancel culture’

The Netflix stand-up special is a follow-up to the Two Indias’ monologue, which drew maximum eyeballs and massive trolling.

‘Lovechild of theatre, comedy’—improv is where India’s young adults come out to play

Indians discovered improv during Covid, after foreign troupes started experimenting on Zoom. Today, improv has become a means to achieve wellness.

82% Sikh youth pray frequently, highly religious compared to others, shows CSDS-Lokniti survey

More than 80% Sikh respondents also support a ban on the making of comedy movies on religious leaders, as well as stand-up comedy on religion.

Thank god for Netflix and Vir Das. India’s craving comedy and satire, but TVs are a no-go

Clearly, producers and channels know something we don’t — that Indians don’t watch TV to be amused or elevated.

Noida has a new sector. It’s called humour

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

After Neville Shah’s ‘quota’ clip, Indian comedians called out for past casteist, sexist jokes

Old tweets and videos of several popular comedians have surfaced on social media where they made sexist, casteist and Islamophobic jokes.

2 co-accused in comedian Munawar Faruqui case granted bail

The Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court gave relief to Sadaqat Khan and Nalim Yadav, who were involved in organising a comedy show during which Faruqui allegedly insulted Hindu deities.

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A year after Bangladesh’s Monsoon Revolution, a parched summer looms ahead

Mob violence, Islamist rise, and political collapse haunt Bangladesh after Sheikh Hasina’s ouster. Can April 2026 elections restore order?

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

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.