No jokes please, we’re Indian – The Hindu (June 01, 2016)
Sometimes the reaction is the real joke. The police force in India’s financial capital have sought legal opinion to check if they have grounds to file an FIR against a comedian for a video he recently posted on the messaging application, Snapchat. The Mumbai police were following up on a complaint from the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, a political party with a remarkably low threshold for taking offence. And the MNS was not the only party outraged by the post by Tanmay Bhat, a comedian fairly well-known for his “roast videos”, or takedowns of celebrities. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.
Today’s Words:
- Threshold (noun) – a level/point at which a person starts to feel/experience/react psychologically.
- Outrage (verb) – anger, shock, annoy.
- Roast (verb) – tease, insult, ridicule, mock (in a friendly way).
- Take down (noun) – humiliation, dishonour, discredit.
- Whip (verb) – beat, hit, lash someone as punishment.
- Spoof (verb) – parody, make fun of, take off.
- Jibe (noun) – an insulting remark, taunt, a scornful act.
- Political incorrectness (noun) – politically wrong.
- Deem (verb) – regard as, consider, judge.
- Passable (adjective) – acceptable, adequate, satisfactory.
- Mockery (noun) – ridicule, joking, teasing.
- Stifle (verb) – prevent, constrain, hamper, curb, hinder.
- Look over someone’s shoulder (idiom) – to be concerned that something bad/unpleasant might happen.
- Trying (adjective) – difficult, arduous, hard, tough, stressful.
- Critique (verb)- criticise, evaluate, analyse, judge.
- Sensitisation (noun) – the state of being sensitive, sensitiveness.
- Self-censorship (noun) – self-control, self-discipline, self-restraint,
- Menacingly (adverb) – threateningly, dangerously, frighteningly.
- Rally (verb) – come together, join together, unite.
- Warrant (verb) – justify, validate, authorize, permit.
- Scrutiny (noun) – investigation, inspection, examination.
- Internalise (verb) – personalise, to incorporate, embody.
Note:
- Click each one of the words above for their definition, more synonyms, pronunciation, example sentences, phrases, derivatives, origin and etc from http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/ .
- Synonyms provided for the words above are my personal work and not that of Oxford University Press.