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Ep 292: Varun Grover Is in the House

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Job of an Artist Is to Make Bridges

In comedy you can be directly political, but you have a punch line. The thing is, it's always a surprising punch line. It has to surprise you. And the moment you are surprised, you let down your guard because there is that emotion as kind of overtaken you. So for me, the job of an artist from from a privileged community, in this case, savana hindo male er, the job is to bring narratives which otherwise you won't see and to not feel like, okan, i'm watching a political statement. I'm watching a story, and that story then starts living inside me," she says.

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