{"id":70387,"date":"2025-03-24T22:02:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T13:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/24\/mumbai-comedy-club-ransacked-after-kunal-kamra-joke-about-local-politician"},"modified":"2025-03-24T22:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T13:02:55","slug":"mumbai-comedy-club-ransacked-after-performers-joke-about-local-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70387","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai comedy club ransacked after performer\u2019s joke about local politician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shiv Sena party supporters tore apart the Habitat comedy club after Kunal Kamra\u2019s satirical song about a top minister<\/p>\n<p>A mob violently ransacked a Mumbai comedy club and its building has been partly demolished after one of India\u2019s most prominent comedians performed a satirical song about a local ruling politician during a performance there.<\/p>\n<p>Kunal Kamra has a reputation for his acerbic comedy which often pokes fun at political figures. Few comedians in India dare to make political jokes for risk of a backlash.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/24\/mumbai-comedy-club-ransacked-after-kunal-kamra-joke-about-local-politician\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shiv Sena party supporters tore apart the Habitat comedy club after Kunal Kamra\u2019s satirical song about a top ministerA mob violently ransacked a Mumbai comedy club and its building has been partly demolished after one of India\u2019s most prominent comedian&#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":[1802,457,62,454,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy","category-freedom-of-speech","category-india","category-mumbai","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\/70387","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=70387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70388,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70387\/revisions\/70388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}