{"id":52836,"date":"2023-02-22T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/feb\/22\/whos-laughing-now-the-dalit-comedians-punching-up-against-indias-caste-system"},"modified":"2023-02-22T16:00:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T07:00:18","slug":"whos-laughing-now-the-dalit-comedians-punching-up-against-indias-caste-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52836","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s laughing now? The Dalit comedians punching up against India\u2019s caste system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once the butt of others\u2019 standup routines, comics from the lowest social strata are turning the tables, with humour as their weapon<\/p>\n<p>On a wooden chair on a makeshift stage at Cat Caf\u00e9 Studio, standup comedian Manaal Patil is holding forth to an appreciative Mumbai audience.<\/p>\n<p>In his green striped T-shirt, he may not look like a pioneer, but Patil \u2013 who is getting laughs from poking fun at India\u2019s caste system \u2013 belongs to the Dalit community, formerly known as \u201cuntouchables\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/feb\/22\/whos-laughing-now-the-dalit-comedians-punching-up-against-indias-caste-system\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once the butt of others\u2019 standup routines, comics from the lowest social strata are turning the tables, with humour as their weaponOn a wooden chair on a makeshift stage at Cat Caf\u00e9 Studio, standup comedian Manaal Patil is holding forth to an appreciat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3597,"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":[1802,71,1128,59,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy","category-culture","category-dalits","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52836","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\/3597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52837,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52836\/revisions\/52837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}