Punchlines To Police Cases: A Stand-Up Comic On Four Years Of Harassment By Hindu Groups & A Derailed Career

Arrested with Munawar Faruqui in 2021, stand-up comic Nalin Yadav has since faced mobs, debt, job loss and repeated assaults. Branded anti-Hindu, Yadav was attacked for the fourth time in August 2025. Local politicians in Madhya Pradesh’s Pithampur continue to target him four years after he shot into the limelight, he says.

01 Sep 2025        Unzila Sheikh