{"id":70389,"date":"2025-03-24T21:04:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/mar\/24\/mumbai-comedy-club-habitat-ransacked-controversial-joke-video"},"modified":"2025-03-24T21:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:04:53","slug":"mumbai-comedy-club-vandalised-over-controversial-joke-shuts-its-doors-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70389","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai comedy club vandalised over controversial joke shuts its doors \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group ransacked the Habitat comedy club in Mumbai on Sunday night  after comedian Kunal Kamra performed a satirical song about local ruling politician Eknath Shinde. Men wearing scarves belonging to Shiv Sena, Shinde&#8217;s rightwing party, were seen interrupting a show at the venue before throwing chairs, tearing down posters and breaking light fittings<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2025\/mar\/24\/mumbai-comedy-club-habitat-ransacked-controversial-joke-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group ransacked the Habitat comedy club in Mumbai on Sunday night  after comedian Kunal Kamra performed a satirical song about local ruling politician Eknath Shinde. Men wearing scarves belonging to Shiv Sena, Shinde&#8217;s rightwing party, were seen inte&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[457,62,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-of-speech","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70389","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70390,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70389\/revisions\/70390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}