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As a nation that prefers politics sans a side of humour, Akash Banerjee is trying to create a platform to sensitize the Indian audience towards the need of political satire.
The former VP of Radio Mirchi took the plunge and founded India's first and largest political & social satire platform, #TheDeshbhakt at a time when the words humour and politics could never dream of being spoken together in the same sentence.
In conversation with Sanjoy Roy, Akash tells us how and why the internet serves as the perfect tool to define the narrative that political satire is trying to create in India.