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Team Aisi Taisi Democracy, consisting of musician Rahul Ram, lyricist and writer Varun Grover and satirist Sanjay Rajoura, had a first of its kind experience during a performance at the Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) in Allahabad on Wednesday evening.
The group were invited to perform at gnoTalks 2016 on the campus and the audience consisting of students and faculty were thoroughly enjoying their show which started around 7pm.
“The couple of members of the faculty who shut down our show, weren’t against us talking about sex, their problem was that we were talking about it in the presence of women, which is exactly the kind of hypocrisy we wanted to highlight,” says Varun talking to The Quint.
“We’ve done similar shows in several colleges including IIT Bombay, BIT Vellore but there have been no problems as such. Our content is edgy, which is sometimes uncomfortable but it’s always funny. In the middle of a punchline, my mic got muted and it took us a little while to realise that it was intentionally switched off and then we were asked to stop the show right then and leave, because we have offended some people,” Varun adds describing what happened at the event.
What Varun says next is the important bit.
Aisi Taisi Democracy’s Facebook page has put up a post explaining their stand on the incident.
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