Pramod Mahajan is missed more than ever, in these times of strains in the 22-year-old marriage between his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena. He was credited with single-handedly maintaining and nourishing the relationship, by assuaging the ego of Sena chief Bal Thackeray.
With Mahajan no more — and a frail Thackeray not in the thick of things — the marriage never seemed so stretched in the last 22 years as it is now.