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All the world is a meme: when satire can no longer keep up with reality
14+ hour, 56+ min ago (851+ words) Karl Urban and Laz Alonso as Billy Butcher and Mother's Milk in a still from The Boys, a satire of superhero culture. When real world headlines resemble satire, does satire too reinvent itself as drama to appease fans of stars?...
CJP's agitation to continue until Union minister Pradhan resigns: Abhijeet Dipke
3+ week, 5+ day ago (529+ words) Published - June 07, 2026 12: 51 pm IST - Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Sunday (June 7, 2026) asserted that his agitation over alleged irregularities in examinations and recruitment tests will not stop until Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigns. Speaking to…...
Delhi HC refuses urgent hearing on plea against Cockroach Janta Party protest
4+ week, 10+ hour ago (293+ words) Published - June 05, 2026 01: 09 pm IST - New Delhi The Delhi High Court on Friday (June 5, 2026) refused to hear a petition raising law and order concerns arising from digital outfit Cockroach Janta Party's call for a protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi…...
CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke interview: "We will continue to use every constitutional means available to make our voices heard"
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (230+ words) Published - June 01, 2026 09: 39 pm IST - Chandigarh The Cockroach Janta Party will continue to use every constitutional means available to make people's voices heard, including satire, and hopes to create a lasting "movement" out of the viral popularity of the online outfit,…...
Delhi HC to hear plea against blocking of Cockroach Janta Party's X handle
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (208+ words) Published - May 28, 2026 07: 22 pm IST - New Delhi The Delhi High Court is scheduled to hear on Friday (May 29, 2026) a petition by founder of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), Abhijeet Dipke, against the blocking of the satirical digital outfit's social media account…...
Watch: Cockroach Janta Party: lessons for the ruling party and Opposition
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (182+ words) The online satirical phenomena the Cockroach Janta Party, has gained a lot of traction online and in political discourse. It has also become, in a sense, a lightning rod, of a narrative tug of war rather than what it is…...
Satire | The Great Nicobar nuisance
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (359+ words) Cut trees, save the nation: Gifting the island to a "dani" can"t be worse than handing over the Indian Ocean to China...
On the importance of satire
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (487+ words) If lampooning was a threat to national security, defence, reputation and India's foreign relations, the first Prime Minister of the country, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru would have desisted from telling cartoonist K. Shankar Pillai " "Don't spare me, Shankar. The Editors Guild of…...
Satire | Congrats, you are now Viksit
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (227+ words) Updated - December 26, 2025 01: 22 pm IST This obsession Indians have with foreign travel is something I no longer understand. I say "no longer" because, until a decade ago, it made sense. India was a poor country, with poor infrastructure, very few OTPs,…...
Watch: Satire vs Parody vs Farce | The Bads of Bollywood, 4. 5 Gang & The Paper | | FOMO Fix Ep. 19
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (199+ words) In Episode 19 of FOMO Fix, Sudhish Kamath breaks it down with examples'from Bollywood roasts to farcical chaos This week's lineup: The Bads of Bollywood (Netflix): Aaryan Khan's unapologetic farce that roasts insiders, outsiders, and himself; The Chronicles of the 4. 5 Gang…...