Browsing Tag: Joke

The expressions of hurt and outrage in India that followed recent jokes by late-night comedian Jay Leno and the hosts of the BBC program Top Gear, along with treason charges against a cartoonist, have sparked a debate here: Is the nation too thin-skinned to take a joke?

This is certainly not the kind of “attention” we need nor desire. Sikhs have been trying to educate the American public on who we are and particularly so in the last decade, and now what most people know is the action of one person who decided to take legal recourse.

Leno’s writers and researchers, while looking for the most valuable and beyond-the-reach real estate on earth, zeroed in - not on the Taj Mahal, not on the Palace of Versailles, not on the Vatican, not on Buckingham Palace - but the Golden Temple in Amritsar. I liked that … in addition to the joke itself.