In general, even when I'm not doing political comedy, I want to be clever and find the least confrontational way to say the most offensive things.
Speaking in Hindi has helped me a lot as I can tell my stories with the exact idiom in which they come to me. I think it also helps the audience when I am speaking in a language that is non-elite, so to say, as my stories are also from that perspective.
When a new government comes, even the detractors want to give them a chance because they have been voted in by the people of the country.
There’s a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn’t fall into these traps - by its very nature comedy is supposed to be edgy and anti-establishment.
Self-censorship is the most devastating thing for an artist.
Comedy as dissent or any art form as dissent is going to be our last safety valve.
