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Meet Sneha Suhas, a 22-year-old female comedian from Bangalore. In this interview, she shares her experiences as a comedian and the challenges she faced initially.
Meet Sneha Suhas, a 22-year-old comedienne from Bangalore. In this interview, she shares her experiences as a comedienne and the challenges she faced initially.
In this series, Briefcase, we will be meeting women at work in different fields, in different roles, to gain insight into their lives and work. With more women joining (or aspiring to) join the paid workforce, we live in exciting times, and this is an attempt to chronicle those times, one life at a time.
Laughter is the best medicine. But being a comedienne is an entirely different ball game. Male comedians dominate Indian television, but women have begun to attain fame as well. There are limited numbers of women in the panorama of comedy, and they face innumerable hurdles.
How would you describe yourself?
I’m generally very happy go lucky. But I can also be awkwardly shy, however, I’m very expressive when I need to be.
How did your friends and family react when you chose this profession?
My family’s reaction? Well, they were apprehensive and were not okay with the idea, sort of. They just want me to be self-reliant and so do I. They did want me to get a master’s degree before I started doing this. But you know, parents are parents. They want for me, what every parent wants for a kid. To be happy and content.
My friends, however are just excited to see me perform and constantly ask me what it feels like to be a comedienne!
Did you always want to be a comedienne?
Oh yeah! Always! I just knew that I wanted to be a performer.
How did this all start?
I began attending open mic sessions. These sessions give you access to the mic, and you’re allowed to test your jokes on the audience. These events occur during late nights. I began doing these sessions more frequently, and now it’s my profession.
Do you get paid for your profession?
Money is rather slow in the beginning. I’ve saved up some money from being a sales manager at a company I worked for earlier.
What is the biggest challenge for you as a female comedian?
Travelling late nights after shows, alone, which usually start only after 8:30- 9:00pm.
What is the subject matter your jokes?
My life, my childhood, school, upbringing, education system, conception of women, men, movies and religion.
How receptive were your audience when you started doing open mics?
When I started, I had unpolished jokes, which got better as I started doing many open mics sessions. The reception levels are better than they used to be because of my confidence levels too.
Do you have any tips for young female comedians?
What is funny is funny. It shouldn’t matter what gender you are. Your jokes should be hilarious and you must learn to build confidence as time goes by.
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Before expecting the daughter in law to love, respect and accept the new family, it is only fair that the family demonstrates all of these first.
If you are a married Indian woman, one of the first words you hear from your in laws is that you are now a daughter of the house. How true is that statement though? Are daughters in law really treated as daughters or is this only lip service?
A friend recently confided how hurt she felt when she wanted to visit her in-laws along with her husband but was told not to, because the in-laws wanted time alone with their son. Naturally, she was taken aback since she had always been fed this trope – that she was the daughter, not the daughter in law. Why then this sudden keeping at arm’s distance? Would a son in law ever be told not to accompany his wife on her visit to her parents because they wanted quality time with their daughter? That is unimaginable in a patriarchal society.
It is ok to want time alone with the married offspring but how does that meld into the Indian family system, where independent choices are less important than the whole family coming together?
My husband returns home tired after working & travelling. I, like other working women, return home refreshed after enjoying full day at office!
I am a working woman and mother of a 2 year old daughter. People say I am irresponsible and lazy because I have a house-help.
Yes, I’m irresponsible and don’t have any work. Except checking what groceries needs to be refilled and ordering them for home delivery, washing my and my husband’s clothes, drying and folding them, getting the work-wear clothes ironed, keeping clothes in place, cleaning bathrooms and toilets, changing bedsheets, dusting windows occasionally, hand washing my daughter’s soiled clothes in hot water, bathing my daughter twice, feeding my daughter breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Rest other work like cooking and house cleaning done by the house-help and my husband takes care of getting fruits and vegetables from the market every week. So I don’t have any work except those few mentioned earlier.
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Coordinator with a women's news network, Khabar Lahariya, Disha Mullick talks about her work in training rural women to report on issues that matter to them.
Coordinator with a women’s news network, Khabar Lahariya, Disha Mullick talks about her work in reporting on rural issues and training rural women to report on issues that matter to them.
In this series, BriefCase, we will be meeting women at work in different fields, different roles, to gain insight into their lives and work. With more women joining (or aspiring to) join the paid workforce, we live in exciting times, and this is an attempt to chronicle those times, one life at a time.
Disha Mullick works in a space that is a confluence of her passions and her desire to do something unique and ground-breaking. Based in Delhi, she is a graduate in English from St. Stephens College, Delhi and a Masters in Gender Studies from University of Warwick, UK. For the past 7 years she has been working as a Coordinator with Khabar Lahariya, a local language newspaper whose distinctive voice and popularity stems from its reportage of local issues with a perspective sensitive to power structures.