Indian social comedy

Garg is now playing 15 shows a week. She will do three in the evening, after we have spoken, working up material for an hour-long comedy special she will film in September.

“Now I don’t want to slow down,” she says. “I have a lot of years to make up . . . I was home for 16 years, and I’m back at work, and my kids know that and my husband knows that. Most importantly, my mother-in-law needs to know that. Can you write that in your article?”