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Monday, October 13, 2025
TopicStandup comedy

Topic: standup comedy

What is a progressive, feminist man really afraid of? A Delhi play explores

Written and directed by Vijay Ashok Sharma, actor Amol Parashar performed a 75-minute solo show about sex, shame, and intimacy at Delhi’s Stein Auditorium.

Fear in Delhi comedy clubs. Hair loss, first kiss, uncle jokes, but no politics

Young standup comedians are following a no-offence policy in Delhi-NCR clubs like Light Room and Comedy Cartel. 'We don’t want to take risks that could end our career.'

Kunal Kamra files plea in Bombay HC, seeks quashing of FIR by Mumbai police

In his petition, Kamra claimed that the FIR infringes upon his fundamental right to freedom of expression & that his satirical remarks fall within the ambit of constitutional freedoms.

‘Just like taking supari to speak against someone,’ Eknath Shinde reacts to Kunal Kamra’s jibe at him

Kamra had performed a parody of a popular Hindi song from the film 'Dil Toh Pagal Hai, apparently referring to Shinde as a 'gaddar,' (traitor).

Ranveer Allahbadia isn’t the first. Kunal Kamra to Vir Das, many others faced legal action

Comedian Munawar Faruqui was arrested from Indore in 2021 for allegedly insulting Hindu deities in his jokes, and spent 35 days behind bars before the Supreme Court granted him bail.

Kusha Kapila is right about roasts. They are unkind, unfunny and bullying by another name

The roast mirrors a schoolyard bullying scene: the bully, the victim, and the complicit bystanders. As an audience, we embrace this role without guilt.

Traffic snarl, ‘dogs in cages’ — comedian Trevor Noah ‘roasts’ Bengaluru debacle in Mumbai show

Noah cancelled Bengaluru shows due to 'technical issues'. He is said to travel with his team of technicians & sound engineers, who 'approved the venue & equipment months before' the show.

Brahmin ignorance, liberal guilt, Karl Marx – Manjeet Sarkar spares none in ‘Untouchable’

Stand-up comedian Manjeet Sarkar's power-packed performance builds on his Dalit identity with a singular goal—to make his audience shift uncomfortably in their seats.

KTR extends Hyderabad invite to Munawar Faruqui & Kunal Kamra, says ‘we don’t cancel shows’

State IT Minister K.T. Rama Rao says Hyderabad welcoming of ‘all cultures and criticism’ while Bengaluru, where Faruqui’s last show was cancelled, ‘takes comedy too seriously’.

The India that Vir Das and liberals want – and the one they won’t talk about

Standup comedian Vir Das' Kennedy Center monologue 'Two Indias' is based on a pre-2014 nostalgia and the forced funeral enacted by every liberal.

On Camera

No Mamata Banerjee, women’s safety isn’t a curfew issue

For Indian women, the smallest unit of control becomes the family; the largest, the State. Both speak the same language.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.