Samay Raina, Sanskaar, and the Great Indian Hypocrisy Circus
Samay Raina said, “If kids are watching my content, the parents have failed.”
And boom, the moral police lit up like Diwali came early.
But here’s the thing: he’s not wrong. He’s just the inconvenient mirror most folks don’t want to look into.
Let’s get one thing straight — the kids ain’t the ones filing FIRs or feeling religiously defiled. It’s the grown-ass adults, armed with pitchforks and a dangerously low sense of humour, who’ve made it their life’s mission to protect Indian sanskaar from comedians, memes, and microwave popcorn.
Newsflash: Kids didn’t cancel Munawar. Kids aren’t offended by Tanmay Bhat. Kids didn’t start hashtags against AIB. It’s your well-raised, Bhajan-singing WhatsApp-university-certified adults who felt blasphemy.
So, before we put parental failure on trial, how about we address the bigger issue?
*The problem isn’t that kids saw it.*
The problem is that we still haven’t taught our kids how to think.
We shelter them from cuss words but expose them to bigotry.
We filter out roast comedy but serve them casteism and patriarchy on a gold-plated thaali.
India doesn’t need censorship.
India needs *discernment.*
Label the content.
Tag it NSFW, 18+, political, sexual, whatever.
Let people choose.
Let people take ownership of what they consume.
We live in a country where a 10-year-old can operate ChatGPT but isn’t trusted to decide whether a joke is offensive or not. The result? They grow into 35-year-olds who report Netflix specials because their faith got a boo-boo.
Here’s the truth bomb: *Freedom of speech comes with the burden of sensibility.* Not just for the creator, but also the consumer.
So let’s stop treating creators like they’re babysitters to our children’s moral compass. They’re artists, not au pairs.
Your kid watching Samay Raina is not the apocalypse — it’s an opportunity. To talk. To teach. To THINK.
Because the day we start raising kids who understand content instead of reacting to it, we won’t need to cancel comedians.
We’ll finally start canceling stupidity.
— KG
“Label the content. Don’t lobotomize the country.”
