In India, comedians threatened for their sketches
More and more comedians in India are admitting to practicing self-censorship in their sketches. Jokes about politics are subject to intense pressure, even threats and acts of violence.
He takes to the stage dozens of times a month in a country that's only just discovering the one-man show. For over an hour, Atul Khatri, a former Indian business executive turned comedian, cracks one joke after another. But there are two topics he never jokes about: "I don't make jokes about religion, nor many jokes about politics; those are topics we don't touch on much," he explains.
For Atul Khatri, "there are definitely red lines that must not be crossed." Considered the world's largest democracy, could India no longer laugh at everything? In recent years, Indian comedians have been the target of complaints. One comedian was even detained for a month. In Mumbai, India, a performance hall was vandalized in March after a comedian mocked a politician allied with the central government .
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