I could be handy, mending a fuse
When your lights have gone...
-- The Beatles

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah's typically effervescent declamation tucked in a note of personal gratitude. Declaring that Pratibha Pawar (daughter of an Indian Test cricketer incidentally) needed equal credit for the birthday lad's achievements, he thanked the couple for looking after his son when he studied at a Mumbai college. Said gent had since graduated to greater things -- Omar Abdullah is the GoI's minister of state for external affairs.