The worst thing that we can do as a nation/ state/ linguistic minority is take ourselves too seriously, and fall onto the greased mental slide that leads to more and more entrenched political views, to the point where they become 'holy' and engraved in stone (see what I did there?).
The best antidote to that is people whose regular gig happens to be posing as professional purveyors of ridicule - to whom everything is fair game, to whom nothing is sacred. By that yardstick, comedians are like canaries in a coal mine - when they fall silent, you know there's something nasty in the air - and when there's a weird censorious smell on the airwaves, there's probably something rotten going on in the corridors of New Delhi.
There's also this blog post that I can't praise enough - I think this guy (gal?) should sell his writing.
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