There was great excitement over Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s return to Delhi after having gone AWOL for the past two months. The monkey chatter on the Prince’s ghar wapasi, so to say, in the guava orchard better known as Lutyens’s Delhi just would not cease, even long after the sun had set and twilight turned into night on Raisina Hill and its bungalow-lined shady (literally, as well as metaphorically) surroundings.

Congress vice- president Rahul Gandhi emerges from his residence in New Delhi on Thursday, having returned from his 56-day long break. Pic/PTI