humour

Get up, Stand up…

Akshay Sawai

‘Don’t give up the fight,’ commanded Bob Marley. As if on cue, India has a lively bunch of comedians standing up for our right to laughter. They make the perfect accomplices in our hunt for humour

Ragini MMS

Ajit Duara

A low-budget, low-art film, so canny it leaves you rivetted right till the end

How We are Funny

Rahul Bhatia

Two online humorists tell us about what led them there, and where they go next.

Peepli (Live)

Ajit Duara

Paradoxically, a film on the Indian media that shines only when the media is off-screen.

Too Much to Handle

Open

The humour and quiet elegance do work. But two-time Booker winner Peter Carey packs in so many characters and subplots that you’re exhausted.

A Day at the Karachi Litfest

Faiza S. Khan

I so look forward to the day when cultural activities in Pakistan can be judged on merit rather than the apparently astonishing fact that they exist to begin with.