This week, the man behind the popular Indian parody site declared “surrender”, deleting the page and illustrating the present limits on political satire in the world’s largest democracy. “[My wife] thinks I’m having an affair,” read one April post under a picture of a grinning man staring at computer tablet. A screengrab of the Humans of Hindutva Facebook post. The author took the page down after receiving death threats in India from Hindu nationalists. Humans of Hindutva founderWriters at All-India Bakchod were still guided by what they found funny, he said.

Source: The Guardian December 31, 2017 05:15 UTC