Robo Shankar vs. the World: How One Joke Became a Geopolitical Incident
Robo Shankar and the Global Panic Over a Man Who Dared to Laugh There’s something grimly poetic about the fact that the same week the World Health Organization upgraded “burnout” to a full-blown diagnosis, an Indian comedian named Robo Shankar became the planet’s newest export-grade controversy. While G-7 finance ministers fretted over whether to call…