{"id":52930,"date":"2018-08-07T02:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/07\/no-madam-can-scare-me-maid-turned-comedian-mocks-indias-elite\/"},"modified":"2018-08-07T02:00:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T00:00:51","slug":"no-madam-can-scare-me-maid-turned-comedian-mocks-indias-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=52930","title":{"rendered":"&#039;No madam can scare me&#039;: maid turned comedian mocks India&#039;s elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deepika Mhatre has turned her experiences as a cook for rich families into a standup routineIt is considered insolent in India for a maid to talk back. But one housekeeper in Mumbai is challenging the expectation to be submissive and obedient by lampooning the world of domestic employment in a standup routine several nights a week.\u201cAlthough my employers were mostly nice to me, I used to hear horror stories from other maids,\u201d Deepika Mhatre, 43, told the Guardian. \u201cI used my experiences for my routine, like other comedians,\u201d she said. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2018\/aug\/07\/deepika-mhatre-maid-turned-comedian-mocks-india-elite\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;No madam can scare me&#039;: maid turned comedian mocks India&#039;s elite<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deepika Mhatre has turned her experiences as a cook for rich families into a standup routineIt is considered insolent in India for a maid to talk back. But one housekeeper in Mumbai is challenging the expectation to be submissive and obedient by lampooning the world of domestic employment in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}