A dar­ing, en­ter­tain­ing, ir­rev­er­ent speech cat­a­pults co­me­dian Michelle Wolf cen­trestage, leaves the Wash­ing­ton press di­vided, die-hard fem­i­nists in dis­ar­ray, while Trump rages with anger, sup­port pour­ing in from the in­ter­na­tional me­dia and the In­dian me­dia silent hardly in­ter­ested.

Lis­ten to the speech of star-co­me­dian Michelle Wolf at the White House Cor­re­spon­dents As­so­ci­a­tion Din­ner as re­ported by the Wash­ing­ton Post.  A din­ner party which is a reg­u­lar an­nual din­ner for years is not for thin-skinned peo­ple like Don­ald Trump and many of his ilk in In­dia. Trump skipped it last year and this year too. When stung by Wolf, he called her names. Just could not take it. The re­ac­tions are crass and un­de­mo­c­ra­tic. 

It is in­ter­est­ing to see the in­de­pen­dent US me­dia di­vided on the sub­ject. Some have apol­o­gised and oth­ers of­fered re­grets. Did the ris­ing star co­me­dian Michelle Wolf in­dulge? In a 15-minute stand-up text com­edy she tore apart the Trump pres­i­dency into pieces, spoof­ing every an­gle that was of in­ter­est to the peo­ple.  She landed cen­tre-stage with her truth­ful, di­rect, though raunchy re­marks which hurt those who were meant to be hurt. They ac­tu­ally shrieked in the af­ter­math. Don­ald Trump squeaked.

Speak­ing at the An­nual White House Cor­re­spon­dents Din­ner, at­tend­ing by close to 3000 jour­nal­ists, the lady co­me­dian did not spare any one. Every sec­ond she was on stage, with her eyes and with her words, she brought the house down -some laugh­ing, oth­ers awestruck and Press Sec­re­tary Sarah Sanders and the like dumb­founded. Or per­haps gritty enough to with­hold the angst.

“Think about it! In case we had such din­ners, which In­dian co­me­dian would have the guts to speak against a chief min­is­ter or a min­is­ter or the Prime Min­is­ter while he or she is seated a few steps away.”

I watched her speech on Wash­ing­ton Post two times, read the tran­script of the speech and paused. I won­dered, when will we have such din­ners in In­dia?  Which jour­nal­ist body will take the lead to or­gan­ise such a meet?

We have If­tar Par­ties in the Pres­i­den­tial Palace, which too has not been at­tended by Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Modi and his team, lest they be seen as pro-Mus­lim. 

Think about it! In case we had such din­ners, which In­dian co­me­dian would have the guts to speak against a chief min­is­ter or a min­is­ter or the Prime Min­is­ter while he or she is seated a few steps away. Which one it could be, who would be per­ceived to have the gump­tion to do such a thing and would still be in­vited to such an event in Delhi or Luc­know, notwith­stand­ing which party is send­ing in the in­vi­ta­tion. 

In In­dia, the near­est some­body would come to Michelle Wolf would be the Urdu and Hindi com­edy po­ets who would not hes­i­tate to amuse their lis­ten­ers with snide ref­er­ences, metaphoric and satir­i­cal snides at In­dian lead­ers. 

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Michelle Wolf hit at every­one in the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion, left, right and cen­tre. I wish Kapil Sharma does a sim­i­lar stand-up satire aimed at Naren­dra Modi rather than tom-tom with men dress­ing-up as women.