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CNN reported on the 18th that the performance of a comedian who claimed to be from "Double-Sided India" in Washington, D.C., caused controversy, in which he sarcastically said "I am from India, where we respect women during the day, but gang rape them at night" and so on. In response to his performance, india has voices calling for his arrest, while supporters have defended him.
Darth: "There we honor women during the day..."
On Nov. 12, comedian VirDas performed a performance titled "I'm from Two Indias" at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, describing what he considers India's "dual personality," CNN said. According to the report, Darth uploaded the performance to YouTube on the 15th, and his six-minute performance video has now received more than 850,000 views.
As for Darth's performance, CNN said, in his monologue: "I come from a country called India, where we respect women during the day but gang rape them at night. "I come from a country called India, where we pride ourselves on being vegetarian but crushing farmers who grow vegetables." Wait a minute. DAS explained that during the demonstrations of the law protest against Indian farmers, the vehicles of high-ranking Indian officials and related people crushed the protesting farmers, causing at least 8 deaths.
Darth ends the show (Image source: Darth Twitter account)
CNN mentioned that the hashtag #VirDas has set off a craze on Indian Twitter, and as of Wednesday (17th) afternoon, there were more than 60,000 tweets related to the hashtag. According to reports, his remarks caused controversy, and Ashutosh Dube, legal adviser of India's ruling Bharatiya People's Party, said that he had complained to the Mumbai police about Darth's "inflammatory" remarks on the 16th, in addition, he also accused Darth of "slandering and destroying India's image in the United States" and "slandering the Indian state, Indian women, and the Indian prime minister". CNN also said Indian filmmaker Ashok Pendit believes that Darth, who made such remarks, "should be arrested immediately" and tweeted that "I see the shadow of a terrorist in this guy named #VirDas".
Dube tweeted screenshots
On the other hand, there are also supporters in India who defend Darth. According to CNN, Indian opposition MP Shahi Tarrul tweeted that Das "spoke on behalf of millions of people" and that "the standing comedian knows that the true meaning of the word 'standing' is not physical but moral". Another member of parliament, Kapil Sibar, also commented on Twitter on the 17th, saying, "No one can doubt that there are two Indias, but we don't want an Indian to tell the world about this", the lawmaker also wrote: "We are stingy and hypocritical." ”
Screenshot of Shahi Tarrul's Twitter
According to reports, Darth himself also issued a statement on Twitter on the 16th, saying that he was "proud" of India, "This video is a satire of the two-sidedness of a completely independent India", "there is good and evil within it." None of this is a secret. ”