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Monday, January 26, 2026
TopicStand up comedy

Topic: Stand up comedy

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Doctors and engineers have been replaced by IPS, IAS officers.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.

Bail for 3, but 2 still in jail — why duo arrested with Munawar Faruqui is still in prison

The five men arrested from an Indore cafe for 'offensive jokes' are Faruqui, Prakhar Vyas, Edwin Anthony, Nalin Yadav, and Sadaqat Khan. Yadav and Khan are still in prison.

‘Not a case of no evidence,’ MP HC says as it dismisses comedian Munawar Faruqui’s bail plea

Court also dismisses plea of co-accused Nalin and says prima facie it appears duo made ‘scurrilous, disparaging utterances’ to ‘outrage religious feelings of a class of citizens’.

From Dongri to MP jail — comic Munawar Faruqui’s life is rife with humour, hustle & tragedy

Stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui was arrested by Madhya Pradesh Police on 1 January for allegedly making 'indecent remarks' about Hindu deities and Home Minister Amit Shah.

On Camera

Mark Tully was a colossus on the Indian subcontinent. He had sources at all levels

I was in Islamabad when Mark Tully broke the news of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being hanged. I held it against him—he could have tipped me off. But he was a journalist before he was a friend.

India wants Canada’s resources as nations build on truce, British Columbia’s Premier says

Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.

Shaurya Chakra for Lt Col who led op to ‘eliminate’ terror leadership along Indo-Myanmar border

President Murmu has also conferred Kirti Chakra on Major Arshdeep Singh of 1 Assam Rifles for eliminating armed cadres when patrol led by him came under fire along Indo-Myanmar Border last May.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.