The Bombay High Court has issued notices to the Mumbai Police and Shiv Sena MLA Murji Patel in response to a plea filed by comedian Kunal Kamra. Kamra seeks to quash an FIR lodged against him for allegedly referring to Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde as a “traitor”

Comedian Kunal Kamra has found himself at the center of controversy once again, this time with a second summons issued against him. The summons come as part of his ongoing feud with Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, which has escalated due to Kamra’s satirical comments about the minister. Despite the legal pressure, Kamra has doubled […]

Kunal Kamra is hurt. Not physically—though a vandalized comedy venue can certainly bruise the ego—but morally, philosophically, democratically. The comedian is now the poster child for free speech, surrounded by the usual sound bites: “intolerance,” “fascism,” “muzzling dissent.” And right behind him, waving the same banner, is the Shiv Sena (UBT) faction, suddenly