Hyderabad, March 25 -- What Kunal Kamra said the other day and raised a laugh from his audience was nothing new. Uddhav Thackeray and his loyalists, that is those who stayed with him when the Shiv Sena split, had said much the same. They called the splitters "gaddars" or treacherous. It was acceptable to all, probably because such outpourings in the heat of existential electoral battles are allowed. It was at par for the course during both the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.

But, when it comes much later from a stand-up comedian, it is a thorn that pricks the ever-thinning skin politicians' skins. It insults a section's sentiments enough to vandalise a Mumbai studio where the comedian recorded his show and later brazenly claim the righ...