{"id":60931,"date":"2024-01-03T20:20:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T11:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/jan\/03\/has-india-lost-its-sense-of-humour-critics-point-to-rise-of-deference-after-mimicry-row"},"modified":"2024-01-03T20:20:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T11:20:35","slug":"has-india-lost-its-sense-of-humour-critics-point-to-rise-of-deference-after-mimicry-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60931","title":{"rendered":"Has India lost its sense of humour? Critics point to rise of deference after mimicry row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was outrage when the vice-president was mocked last month by an opposition MP, but social commentators say India is increasingly a country that cannot take a joke<\/p>\n<p>It is rare for India\u2019s politicians to laugh at themselves, but a row over an act of mimicry has exposed the extent of the lack of humour and intolerance of satire in the country\u2019s political and public life.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two weeks, politicians have traded insults over an impersonation of India\u2019s vice-president, Jagdeep Dhankhar, by the opposition MP Kalyan Banerjee.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/jan\/03\/has-india-lost-its-sense-of-humour-critics-point-to-rise-of-deference-after-mimicry-row\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was outrage when the vice-president was mocked last month by an opposition MP, but social commentators say India is increasingly a country that cannot take a jokeIt is rare for India\u2019s politicians to laugh at themselves, but a row over an act of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"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":[1802,59,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy","category-global-development","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/60931","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\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60932,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60931\/revisions\/60932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}