New Indian Nuttahs: Comedy and Cultural Critique in Millennial India

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This book takes a journey into the new and exciting created by a the wave of Indian comedians today, described affectionately here as the New Indian Nuttahs, and looks at what these tell us about identity, “Indianness”, censorship, feminism, diaspora and millennial India. It provides a unique analysis into the growing phenomenon of internet comedy and into a dimension of Indian popular culture which has long been dominated by the traditional film and television industries. Through a mixture of close textual readings of online comedy videos and interviews with content creators and consumers in India, this book provides a fresh perspective on comedy studies in its approach to a global South context from a sociocultural perspective. As a protean form of new media, this has opened up new avenues of articulation, identification and disidentification and as such, this book makes a further contribution to South Asian, communication, media & cultural studies. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv “New” India and the Nuttahs (Kavyta Kay)....Pages 1-20 Riffing India Comedy, Identity, and Censorship (Kavyta Kay)....Pages 21-46 Women in Internet Comedy (Kavyta Kay)....Pages 47-60 Down to Brown: A Footnote on British Asian and South Asian American Comedy (Kavyta Kay)....Pages 61-74 The Currency of Comedy (Kavyta Kay)....Pages 75-85 Back Matter ....Pages 87-88