Shehan Karunatilaka’s Booker winning novel is a black comedy about the afterlife, a murder mystery, and a political satire set against the violent backdrop of the late-1980s Sri Lankan …
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Trevor Noah Is Leaving ‘The Daily Show’ – How Did He Fare?
The South African comedian was able to offer something different to his predecessor Jon Stewart: an outsider’s perspective to America’s political and social problems.
Borat’s Wet Firecracker of an October Surprise
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm won’t be the Jeff Bezos-backed David that slays Goliath. But the film manages to skewer some targets beyond the White House, such as the creepy misogyny …
Political Satire Has a Rape Problem
We need to find new ways of critiquing male power in which the punchline is the man and not female victims.
Madara’s ‘Mareech’: How the State Blinds Society
This hip-hop artist uses satire to show how the government, like Mareech in 'Ramayana', fools its citizen in guise of a metaphorical golden deer.
The Curious Case of the Saffron Gate
Before the gate was constructed, we had free access to those natural reserves of equality, logic and free thinking.