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Tuesday, July 14, 2026
TopicStand up comedy

Topic: Stand up comedy

UK comedians are finding humour in misery. The punchline is heatwave

Himanshi Aggarwal -
'Everything is on fire! We’re all dying! Because you didn’t recycle,” joked British comedian, Scott Bennett.

Men can’t buy women’s consent by paying for dinner. Dating is not vasooli

Samah Qundeel -
Pranit More's fan revealed an ugly truth about dating when he said he wanted to recover Rs 360-370 he had spent on a biryani for a woman.

Andhra police arrests Hyderabad comic in UP for Pawan Kalyan joke. Witch hunt, says family

Yunus Lasania -
Anudeep Katikala founded the Telugu Standup Comedy scene in Hyderabad and the group Silly South Comedy, India’s first Telugu stand-up comedy collective.

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

+TFP Nootan Sharma -
Doctors and engineers have been replaced by IPS, IAS officers.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’

Nidhima Taneja -
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

+TFP Yashika Singla -
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

Nikhil Rampal -
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

Shailaja Bajpai -
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

Tina Das -
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

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

Why India’s court digitisation keeps failing

Siddarth Raman -
India's judicial digitisation has created portals and platforms without changing how court records are created, managed or shared.

How the Modi govt broke the decades-long Narmada deadlock

India’s FTA deficits aren’t proof of failure. The string is what holds the kite up

Economy

India’s imports from China grew by 28% in 1st quarter of FY27; exports to Beijing see modest growth

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Indian imports from China continue to grow significantly. India has taken steps to stabilise ties with China and recent months eased investment curbs in certain sectors for Chinese-linked firms.

Defence

DIA effect: Canada steams ahead with TKMS for new submarines, India’s P 75I still in works

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Ottawa has handed over execution functions of critical defence projects to a CEO-led organisation for reducing procurement timelines and making it solely accountable for outcomes.

National Interest

Satluj risks rekindling anger & distrust in Punjab. It’s not about the film, but the votes

Shekhar Gupta -
Diljit Dosanjh-starrer Satluj doesn’t blame any political party or individual politicians. We only know the demographic in Punjab it’s bound to trigger the most.

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