Shiv Sena Member of Parliament Ravindra Gaikwad’s much publicised fight with Air India concluded with an apology, a written undertaking and a lifting of the flying ban imposed on him by the Federation of Indian Airlines. But is bad karma from political life really bad karma till a comic artist offers a version?

For those living under a rock, Mumbai-based stand-up comic Sorabh Pant narrated his version of events in a new routine. Among his other observations: the Shiv Sena leader might have achieved something no-one else has been able to do. “He made Indians unanimously fall in love with Air India. That is commendable.”

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To ensure everyone keeps up with the absurd drama of news, Pant also offered his analysis of the Karni Sena’s attack on the sets of Padmavati: They were protesting against a sex scene in the film despite Sanjal Leela Bhansali saying that there was no sex scene.

“They basically broke down the set of a film on the basis of a sex scene which was imaginary, of a character who was imaginary, of a movie which does not exist. JK Rowling has a complex with this imagination.”

Pant ended by offering a solution to these violent political senas or armies, including UP’s anti-Romeo squads, by suggesting that they be sent to the border before being able to form senas. “But Air India will not fly them there.”