Kamra’s travels leave other comics more susceptible to someone else for threats and threatening, which can find their jokes aggressive.
A Mumbai -based comic, known for his political comedy, often criticized the Modi government, has been hound by members of an influential religious community close to his ruling establishment for his jokes. Community members have created pages on social media, advocated their boycott and pressurized places to cancel their upcoming shows. Those threats are only going to increase more ravages.
Many people have also learned a difficult way that any political comics to avoid these dangers that have tried to do international tourism in countries with important migrant members have seen pro -modi supporters in countries who are canceling their shows.
Comics, seeing what is Kamra, is also looking at the death of Mumbai’s most popular stand-up comedy site, The Habitat. In a statement on Monday, the site stated that it was “extremely broken” and was at least closing temporarily.
Such vengeance is going to have a similar wave effect on Mumbai and other clubs across the country. Very clubs can start removing themselves from political comics and even deprive them of spaces. After all, which club wants to suffer mob and bulldozer justice?
Over the years, already, already, the pool of comics ready to be important of the government has shrunk something else. Those who see the industry closely have seen subtle changes in rhetoric from some of these stars-out of government and use of top leaders, more wide-brash strokes about the country’s politics.
In the meantime, Kamra’s act was clearly stood out to refuse to respect the red lines, which his partner comics have accepted, to speak every person’s authority independently, be uneven for political satire.
It does not matter whether you find Kamra’s jokes funny or not.
Kamra’s jokes are important because they remind us of a truth, so many people have forgotten: fear should never be allowed to win, if our democracy has to survive. With his courage, Kamra broke Omerta.
This is why we need to sit and worry about what is likely to follow.
(Kunal Purohit is an award -winning independent journalist who writes at the intersections between politics, gender, development, inequalities and them. He is an alumni of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
