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That if the Prime Minister doesn’t want to tell Advani and Parliament what secrets he is talking with the US on Pakistan because Advani did not tell Manmohan and Parliament what secrets Jaswant Singh talked with Strobe Talbott, who’s going to tell anything at all to Parliament?

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Gopal Kaushik, a friend, aptly reacted to Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize with an SMS: “Next year Barack Obama will get Nobel Prize for Chemistry. He’s got just great Chemistry, says Nobel Committee.” — Venkat

Mint Lounge suspended its regular dose of columnists and features today for a special, good-looking, number on Diwali gift items and ideas. But the question that begs the answer: why 104? What is the significance of that number? Possible answers:

1. They didn’t have the 105th idea.

2. Their design guys could fit only 104 items in 24 pages.

3. There are only 104 items on show this Diwali, slowdown you see.

(And I don’t have a 4th answer — venkat)

Rahul Gandhi gave the right to ask the first question to JNU students who shouted slogans at the campus last night against the Congress’ role in the 1984 Delhi riots. “Let us first give voice to the opposition,” he said (The Hindu, pg 1). Even if that was tokenism, how many politicians would risk that in India? Well done, Rahul.

 The BJP is ready to fight the Haryana elections. Its manifesto is out: The party will ban western music and “indecency in the name of culture”. The next big promise: It will set up a Cow-care Commission, “Gau seva aayog” (The Hindu, pg 5). Cow and Culture. Yessir, that’s what Haryana needs the most. Go, win the elections with that.