Comedian Robin Williams said: “Satire is not dead; he lives in the White House,” and the United States laughed. Comedian Kunal Kamra, in a show entitled ‘Naya Bharat’ in Mumbai on March 23, referred to the Deputy Minister of Maharashtra, Eknath Shind as ‘Gaddar’ (traitor) and Shiv Sena Vandalize his stage. The satire is not dead; Live everything about India. And the growing intolerance to satire is the testimony of its power, how the political class without humor sees it as a threat.
It is difficult to say which party feels less insecure against political humor. On February 15, the Government of the Union blocked the website of the Tamil Vikatan media to publish a cartoon that showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Shacles sitting next to the president of the United States, Donald Trump (in the context that we deported the Indians in chains). In March 2023, Tamil Nadu police arrested Pradep, a 24 -year -old man for sharing a video meme that mocked a state budget announcement. In 2012, Bengala police arrested the professor at the University of Jadavpur, Ambikesh Mahapatra, for sending a cartoon that mocked the extraction of the member of the Trinamool Congress Dineh Trivedi as a railway minister. In 2020. Sameet Thakkar, a social media commentator, was arrested for calling Uddhav Tackeray a ‘today’s aungzeb today’ and his son Aditya Thakeray a ‘baby penguin’.
The satire shares a thin limit with insult, and the least skilled in art are often found on the wrong side of the line. However, all previous cases are examples or political intolerance. A simple way to distinguish between insult and humor is to see if it makes you think after having laughed. A sense of humor, as the Australian journalist Clive James said, is only common sense, dance. A politician with a sense of humor would be an asset for democracy, but in our country they will be in the hive of extinction.
M Karunanidhi was a teacher of political jokes, but when the joke was on him, his partimones could not endure him lightly. Kerala’s chief prime minister was Ek Nayanar, and this quality attracted only his political rivals. Jawaharlal Nehru was probably the most tolerant of the prime ministers, his “petition” to the artist Shankar so as not to save a legend in the circles that discuss the freedom of the press.
The United States, with all its failures, celebrates political satire like no other nation. Television programs such as Saturday Night Live (which has been executed since 1975), The Daily Show and full front with Samantha Bee (ended in 2022 after the fusion of Warner Bros and Discovery) have been fugitive successes, just like Vice, a Meeries comedy.
Drawing on the Book ‘Political Humor Worldwide: The Cultural Context of Political Comedy, Satire and Parody, or Feldman, A Professor of Political Psychology, Say’s Political Humour is a relief from the trivial stresses and freeltes that Powerless,’ Powerless, ‘Powerless,’ Powerless, ‘Powerless,’ Powerless, ‘Powerless,’ Inpowersal, ‘Inpowersal,’ Inpowersal, ‘The Powizes,’ Inpowersal, ‘The Powizens,’ Inpizal, ‘or Policies. “In this sense, such humor can be seen as a weapon of political criticism and contempt, as an individual leadership method with political, politicians and circumstances disgusted, and as an instrument to be even with the oppressors,” writes Feldman in an LSE blog.
Social networks have democratized political satire. On the other hand, some “activists” of social networks do so much damage to satire when they try to package slap insults as humor. The true test of satire would be its longevity. The authorities do not need to try to kill a joke of evil; He dies on his own, while quality satire is still alive. And then, as Alexander Pope said three centuries ago, the neglected praise is the disguised satire.
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