You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
Muck-raker
It's up to comedians to shine the light on what's wrong in the world, and we don't want things swept under the rug.
Journalism is just a gun. It’s only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that’s all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.
Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.
Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.
I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.
My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.
I want to tell stories powerful people don't want you to tell. It's not worth getting out of bed otherwise.
The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.
For me, talking about the casting couch in the Malayalam film industry was like calling the sky blue. There is nothing new about calling a spade a spade. My intention was not to create an effect; I just wanted to pluck a few weeds in the system and throw them out.
We "muckraked" not because we hated our world but because we loved it.
