The serious business of comedy | Aditi Mittal | TEDxIIFTDelhi

Aditi talks about her unconventional career choice, the mistakes she made and the lessons she learnt on her way to recognition. She talks of the most satisfying and dissatisfying aspects of her career path by laying emphasis on the power of the audience’s opinion. Lastly, she encourages all to get their respective stories out there because no democracy can ever exist without dissent.

Stand Up Comedian, Actress, Voice Over Artist and Teacher

•Featured in Stand Up Planet, a documentary film about comedy in developing countries, which is #16 on The Comedy Bureau's "100 BEST THINGS IN COMEDY WE WERE WITNESS TO IN 2014"

•Rated amongst India’s top 10 stand-up comedians by The Times of India.

•Featured in CNNIBN.com as top 30 witty, intelligent and incredibly funny Indian women to follow on Twitter.

•Featured on BBC World and BBC America among “India’s trailblazers”

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at

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