{"id":39031,"date":"2021-11-18T23:37:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T14:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/18\/indian-comedian-vir-das-accused-of-vilifying-nation"},"modified":"2021-11-18T23:37:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T14:37:34","slug":"indian-comedian-vir-das-accused-of-vilifying-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39031","title":{"rendered":"Indian comedian Vir Das accused of \u2018vilifying nation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians express outrage over routine that discusses country\u2019s contradictions women\u2019s safety, religion, Covid and politics<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>An Indian comedian is facing an onslaught of criticism and calls for police to investigate over a comedy monologue that spoke of the country\u2019s contradictions on women\u2019s safety, religion, Covid and politics.<\/p>\n<p>The routine performed on a US tour by Vir Das, one of India\u2019s most popular comedians, went viral in India this week after it spoke of \u201ctwo Indias\u201d &#8211; conflicting elements of his own country that, he felt, had an element of the absurd.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/18\/indian-comedian-vir-das-accused-of-vilifying-nation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians express outrage over routine that discusses country\u2019s contradictions women\u2019s safety, religion, Covid and politicsAn Indian comedian is facing an onslaught of criticism and calls for police to investigate over a comedy monologue that spoke o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1802,71,457,62,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy","category-culture","category-freedom-of-speech","category-india","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39032,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39031\/revisions\/39032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}