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Who are the people who manage to get us laughing in these grim times?

Who's making us laugh in these grim times? Veer Arjun Singh finds out

There’s tons of good content on TikTok and not just mindless lip-syncs
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There’s tons of good content on TikTok and not just mindless lip-syncs

Veer Arjun Singh
A girl whom I had a major crush on once told me that she envied my long, silky hair after spotting me on my terrace on a Sunday afternoon. It was an unlikely compliment for a 13-year-old Sikh boy. I blushed. It was embarrassing.

Sixteen years later and with much shorter hair, anecdotes from my miserable teenage years make for endearing jokes today. But you know what’s better than a Sardar joke? A Sardar joke illustration. Dalbir Singh (@sikhpark on Instagram) is terribly good at visualising our collective misfortunes. He started the handle after 9/11 to inform his fellow Americans