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The Willing Martyr of Comedy
The New Indian Express Kollam
|April 01, 2025
In the grand circus of Indian democracy, where the trapeze artists of power swing between sanctimony and savagery, Kunal Kamra, literally armed with a mic and a metaphoric mirror, has chosen to fall, missing the net. The mic is for him. The mirror is for us.
His offense this time? A line delivered with the almost callous candor of a street poet: "I am ready to lose everything but not ready to lose my spine like Eknath Shinde did when he betrayed Uddhav Thackeray and became Maharashtra deputy CM." The word 'betrayal' undid the evening. As a result, writers like me get to repeat the charge.
This writer included, the spine in our existential and political transactions is often missing. The fear of offending—I live in this fear in every word I write. Contemporary civilization is little more than the nagging fear that someone, somewhere has taken offense at my writing. The fear was installed in our lives by liberals and wokes, but increasingly resorted to by the right wing.
Shinde is powerful enough to ignore the jibe. Instead, his people vandalized the venue in Mumbai, where the scene of the tragi-comedy occurred—as if the place, not the person, was responsible for the loud guffaws, knowing smirks.
Coming to think of it, it was not even a great joke. It was just a kind of truth that guides Indian politics. Recall the casual frequency with which elected representatives change their colors and parties.
And so, the erstwhile—undivided—Shiv Sena, now a relic of its former sons-of-the-soil self of the early 1960s, didn't appreciate the humor. Instead, they laid the venue to waste. One supposes it is by destruction of property that one reaches out to touch the personality.
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