India, Jan. 26 -- Varun Grover, the delightful comic sage, recently had a go at the ugliness, hypocrisy, intolerance and chicanery that are tearing our country apart. His show, "Nothing Makes Sense," deconstructs the smug shibboleths and myths of our unhappy society. He weaponises humour to tell us what we are doing wrong and urges us to be more human!

Among other exhortations, Varun's cautionary advice to his audience: in case they are accosted by the thought-police regarding his subversive show, they should, among other excuses, bluff that he cracked jokes about Rahul Gandhi. Which brings me to the main point of this disquisition: over the last decade, the most vilified person in the country - Rahul Gandhi - has been more sinned agains...