Welcome to a week of outrage in today’s India. Here are your subjects. Beef banned in Maharashtra and now Haryana. Jerry Seinfeld show cancelled in Mumbai. Nun raped in Bengal. Church desecrated in Haryana. The Aam Aadmi Party. Crops destroyed by unseasonal rain and hail. Sharad Yadav makes some incomprehensible remark about the colour of women’s skin. In today’s India, guess which we outrage about the most?

You know of course. The winner is Sharad Yadav and the loser by a long shot is the unseasonal rain. Because politicians are not just our society’s most incomprehensible incontrollable components, they are also our easiest targets. Sharad Yadav doesn’t care what city dwellers think of him, much less women. He has a well-maintained thick skin. He didn’t care when he argued against the Women’s Reservation bill with the unique defence that legislatures would be overrun by short-haired women. Why should anyone imagine he’d been bitten by some gender equality bug now?