A 22-year-old Indian tech worker was fired from his job after he suggested during a stand-up comedy show that spending £3 on a date entitled him to physical intimacy, inviting fierce online backlash.
The controversy began last week when comedian Pranit More posted footage from a crowd-work segment at his stand-up performance in Gurugram, a city in the north Indian state of Haryana. In the clip, audience member Himanshu Jangra recounted taking a woman on a date and buying her a plate of chicken biryani worth about Rs 370 (£2.89), before she asked him to drop her back home.
