India's new wave of comedians laugh in the face of taboos
Standups such as Varun Grover and Aditi Mittal are confronting the country's stigmas and outraging some audiencesVarun Grover, one of India's leading standup comedians, was recently performing in Udaipur, a modest city in the country's north. He began, as he usually does, with a series of jokes lambasting India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, and his government. The crowd guffawed.But when he moved on to discussing …