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Surely, this will elicit laughter or maybe a stunned expression to say the least — a guy attends a spoken word poetry session and talks of Kacchi Dabeli, and how it didn’t work up his appetite. That’s Omkar Rege, a stand-up comedian and a passionate writer, working in a digital media company. During his stand-up comedy act, organised by BhaDiPa (Bharatiya Digital Party) on International Women’s Day in Pune, Omkar turned to Dabeli again; apps that deliver our food and keep us updated every second, to remind us that ‘your delivery is on its way’. We catch up with him to know more about his writing, poetry and ingenious humour. From working class to comedy Omkar, who hails from Goa, calls himself a ‘working class guy’ and turned to stand-up comedy slowly and steadily. “I loved being funny from my core. But I never thought I would actually go out there and do it. I always wanted a stable job, doing the stuff that I liked, which was writing,” says he. Considering that Omkar is ...