As YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia’s question to a talent show contestant — ‘Would you rather watch your parents have sex every day for the rest of your life, or join in once and stop it forever?’ — sparks outrage, stand-up comic Sanjay Rajoura says police cases won’t stop such crassness. It will stop only when people stop watching/supporting it
Comedy in India, no stranger to controversy, is once again under fire. A crude joke on India’s Got Latent — comedian Samay Raina’s YouTube talent show — has snowballed into legal trouble, government intervention, and a renewed debate on free speech.