Anuvab Pal

Anubav Pal is an Indian stand up comedian, screenwriter, playwright and novelist

Anubav Pal is an Indian stand up comedian, screenwriter, playwright and novelist

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Stories by the author

• Why urban kids today feel harder to impress than ever

  
  16 May 2026 11:00 PM IST
• Mar-a-lagoman can say whatever he wants, but Iran is so the epicentre of cool

  
  25 Apr 2026 11:04 PM IST
• 'Not a wife, but a widow can realise the importance of life insurance'

  
  29 Mar 2026 12:03 AM IST
• So, armoured giants colliding between ads, throwing an oval ball and taking endless breaks—is this America’s biggest sporting event?

  
  28 Feb 2026 11:35 PM IST
• Kolkata's crumbling nostalgia is no longer a liability — It's powering a tourism revival

  
  17 Jan 2026 11:04 PM IST
• When people do stuff other than what they're supposed to be good at

  
  03 Jan 2026 11:00 PM IST
• Don't get patronising about women’s cricket success

  
  08 Nov 2025 11:00 PM IST
• The Poms were here, pomp was not: Why Starmer’s India trip feels less spectacular than past royal-style British PM visits

  
  11 Oct 2025 08:29 PM IST
• Anti-colonialism, that is against, er, Indian colonists

  
  27 Sep 2025 11:24 PM IST
• India's long-distance trains aren't a journey, it's all of life

  
  23 Aug 2025 11:08 PM IST
• This summer of ’25, London is peak Instagram theatre, starring new-age desi babalogs

  
  19 Jul 2025 11:00 PM IST
• Vijay Mallya and India's endless legal limbo: When does the wait end?

  
  14 Jun 2025 10:58 PM IST
• Gen X-ers were meant to lead: Now they’re dodging AI, funding startups, and managing Gen Z complaints- WTF happened?

  
  17 May 2025 10:49 PM IST
• If you can't beat 'em, make premium space for 'em to beat it out of their system

  
  05 Apr 2025 11:21 PM IST
• Welcome to the Bigg Boss world of doing business, where the 30-sec spectacle is king

  
  08 Mar 2025 11:10 PM IST
• Every time a comedian’s in trouble, it’s the same old routine of outrage, FIRs, sound bites

  
  15 Feb 2025 08:18 PM IST
• Earthlings, very soon there'll be more Indians outside India than inside

  
  18 Jan 2025 11:00 PM IST
• Scared of tennis? Too busy for golf? Pick pickleball!

  
  14 Dec 2024 10:57 PM IST
• In this tyrannical land of never-ending OTPs, let us have an OTP day

  
  23 Nov 2024 11:04 PM IST
• The India Ratan Tata has taken with him

  
  19 Oct 2024 10:58 PM IST
• If a 20-something finfluencer makes you feel like a loser, chill, it's fine

  
  21 Sep 2024 11:00 PM IST
• The magnificent misfit men of a lost Calcutta

  
  10 Aug 2024 10:35 PM IST
• A democracy where you can abuse a politician - & not be jailed?!

  
  29 Jun 2024 11:00 PM IST
• View: Get a juggler, talk up POK, just don’t let the voter get bored

  
  18 May 2024 11:00 PM IST
• Our Prime Minister as a global icebreaker

  
  20 Apr 2024 10:22 PM IST
• View: Whatever is true about India’s development, the opposite is also true

  
  09 Mar 2024 11:00 PM IST
• The last utopias, rants galore notwithstanding

  
  5 mins read10 Feb 2024
• Indian customers are ALWAYS right

  
  27 Jan 2024 11:00 PM IST
• Art for art's sake? Not unless paisa's vasooled

  
  21 Oct 2023 11:18 PM IST
• Superpower: To be one is by changing West and not India altering itself

  
  09 Sep 2023 10:36 PM IST
• There is only one intelligent use for AI...

  
  22 Jul 2023 09:08 PM IST
• Why today's NRIs reflect old-fashioned India more than urban resident Indians

  
  01 Jul 2023 08:12 PM IST
• The architect of the city of New Delhi - Edwin L Lutyens - mopes exclusively to ET

  
  03 Jun 2023 11:11 PM IST
• View: Tipping, a service industry conundrum of Greek tragedy proportions

  
  29 Apr 2023 11:01 PM IST
• So folks, shall we go with the flow, or get stuck in the rut of audit books?

  
  18 Mar 2023 11:00 PM IST
• It's not just Bollywood Shah Rukh Khan has saved

  
  04 Feb 2023 11:00 PM IST
• View: For the Indian customer, there can only be servants in the service industry

  
  14 Jan 2023 11:11 PM IST
• Goals that (some parts of) India have during World Cups

  
  17 Dec 2022 11:00 PM IST
• If India is so fab & America is in decay, why the long Green Card lines?

  
  18 Jun 2022 11:01 PM IST
• Investment options or cryptocurrency, tie-wearing uncles are leading the advice-doling department (of tricks)

  
  01 Jan 2022 11:01 PM IST
• Waiter, there's an economist in my soup!

  
  18 Dec 2021 10:38 PM IST
• Test cricket and the English: Your Test for our cotton, natives!

  
  18 Sep 2021 08:05 PM IST
• View: The hospital-to-hospitality industry

  
  28 Aug 2021 07:14 PM IST
• View: The playground of the rich now is personal joy from changing other people's lives

  
  5 mins read24 Jul 2021
• A barber, a delivery man, and a slice of India minus papaya: Ten minutes that shook a quiet world

  
  5 mins read3 Jul 2021