The Indian Stand Up Comedy Blog

How Do I Get More Stage Time?

Updated July 2019 In this post I'm going to explain how aspiring stand up comedians, whether in the USA or ...
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July 4, 2019 / Blog, Motivation, motivation, Stand Up Comedy, stand up comedy / 6 Comments

How to Start a Microbrewery in India | Toit’s Bangalore Journey

These days everybody who gets bored of the rat race thinks at 30 they should start a bar. Many try ...
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July 4, 2019 / birdy num num podcast, Blog, Motivation, motivation / No Comments

Varun Agarwal | Mistakes Young Entrepreneurs Make

Varun Agarwal is quite a celebrity in Bangalore, the young entrepreneurial startup world (e.g. guys who watch TVF Pitchers and ...
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July 3, 2019 / birdy num num podcast, Blog, Motivation, motivation, Stand Up Comedy / No Comments

Ten Mistakes Indian Stand Up Comics Make (2019)

Updated July 2019 Note: If you're not Indian, most of this stuff still applies across comedy scenes in the US, ...
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July 2, 2019 / Blog, Motivation, Stand Up Comedy, stand up comedy / 22 Comments

Aswathi Balakrishnan How to be a fashion blogger

Indian Fashion Bloggers | How To Get 100K Followers

In this post I'm going to explain some real, painful, not easy advice on how you can actually get followers ...
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June 25, 2019 / birdy num num podcast, Blog, Motivation, motivation, Stand Up Comedy / 2 Comments

Bangalore Traffic | Are We at Fault? (2019)

I've lived in Bangalore for close to 10 years now. When I landed at 3AM I remember driving through an ...
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June 24, 2019 / bangalore, birdy num num podcast, Blog, Motivation, News / No Comments

Best Indian Stand Up Comedy Videos (ENGLISH)

Stand up Comedy in India is Booming in 2019. I started much of the stand-up comedy wave in India and ...
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June 21, 2019 / Blog, Motivation, Stand Up Comedy, stand up comedy / No Comments

Stand Up Comedy Videos by Sanjay Manaktala (ENGLISH)

On this page you'll quickly find the latest Stand up comedy videos in English by Bangalore stand-up comedian Sanjay Manaktala ...
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June 21, 2019 / Blog, IT, Stand Up Comedy, stand up comedy / No Comments

Why You Hate your Tech Job or Want to Quit Engineering

I grew up in what I’m going to assume are similar circumstances to yourself. I enjoyed playing games, hanging out ...
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June 20, 2019 / Blog, IT, IT, Motivation, motivation / 4 Comments

Please Enjoy Your Own Indian Wedding

As a groom and a stand-up comedian, what a whirlwind weekend having a big fat Indian wedding can be. I've ...
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June 19, 2019 / birdy num num podcast, Blog, indian wedding, Motivation, motivation / No Comments

Best Indian Podcasts 2019

Podcasts in India are just getting started. America has demonstrated the power of folks like Apple Podcasts, iTunes, Spotify and ...
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June 19, 2019 / birdy num num podcast, Blog, Motivation, Stand Up Comedy / No Comments

How to Get Onsite Opportunities (2019)

Do you want to know how to work onsite or get some overseas assignments? Either with TCS, Infosys, Accenture or ...
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May 30, 2019 / Blog, IT, IT, Motivation, motivation / 2 Comments

How to Do Stand Up Comedy in India or Anywhere

In this post, I'm going to explain how to have a stand-up comedy career in India or America or Australia ...
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May 26, 2019 / Blog, comedian, Motivation, motivation, Stand Up Comedy, stand up comedy / 3 Comments

The Indian Mamas Boy Paradox

Can A Mother's Love Cause Harm? The modern Indian man is an interesting specimen. A good portion of us fit ...
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May 20, 2019 / Blog, dating, IT, IT, Motivation, motivation / 1 Comment

If You Care What People Think…Think Again

As I mature into my thirties, they're two things that I’ll always regret. 1. Not starting stand up comedy earlier ...
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March 12, 2019 / Blog, Motivation, motivation, Stand Up Comedy / 7 Comments

Failure as a Comedian

Updated: Jan 2019 As I write this post it’s 11PM on a Wednesday night. I’ve just returned home still wearing the suit ...
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January 8, 2019 / birdy num num podcast, Blog, Motivation, motivation, Stand Up Comedy, stand up comedy / 22 Comments

Who Enables your Mediocrity?

I was chatting with my brother the other day and telling him how one of the toughest parts of freelancing ...
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June 28, 2018 / birdy num num podcast, Blog, IT, Motivation, motivation, Stand Up Comedy / 15 Comments

New to Comedy? Make Friends to Survive

Stand up comedy is a very interesting art form in that to the casual observer it appears anybody can do ...
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May 15, 2018 / Blog, motivation, Stand Up Comedy, stand up comedy / 2 Comments

Reasons Why You’re Still Single (Indian Version)

In this post I'm going to explain why you're single and helpless. I'm also going to give you some tips ...
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March 7, 2018 / Blog, dating, motivation / 1 Comment

#SanjayPoetry: MEH

I don’t know what I’m doing It’s time I feel I’m losing Wake up and read the news Facebook ...
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February 6, 2017 / Blog, motivation / 2 Comments

Nice Guys Finish Last. But What’s the Hurry?

Many years ago I was sitting on the couch with my girlfriend at the time, hearing her yell at me ...
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June 27, 2016 / birdy num num podcast, Blog, dating, Motivation, motivation / 70 Comments

THE GREAT INDIAN SOBER UP

31 DAYS. NO DRINKS. NO SMOKES. AND NO MEAT. How many of you get really drunk, eat a gigantic meal ...
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April 4, 2016 / Blog, motivation / No Comments

I’m so Scared of Looking Creepy that I Won’t Ask You Out

I was at a bar in Goa recently doing what middle-class millennials do when they’re trying to cling on to ...
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March 1, 2016 / Blog, dating, motivation / 9 Comments

Comedian Takes Photo with Mic In Hand

34-year-old Infosys employee Comedian Praveen Rao recently changed his Facebook profile photo to a shot of him holding a microphone, ...
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January 11, 2016 / Blog, Aside, stand up comedy / 2 Comments