Your editorial “Welcome respite” (December 29) is heartwarming. Great to learn that the two main political parties gave up their usual penchant for quibbling over petty politics and decided to “get down to business.” Every Indian would be glad to learn that our politicians are becoming mature and realising that the tax payers spend a huge some of money on the running of the Parliament. So, instead of bickering and mud slinging, they should be using every minute in debating crucial issues so that important legislations are not delayed unneccessarily. Efforts at “bridging of the chasm between the Bharatiya Janata