Did anyone notice that Manmohan Singh clapped the loudest and longest when Pranab Mukherjee was nominated to run for president? Well, former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha did, and this is what he had to observe about the PM’s “uncharacteristic” clapping in an article in The Economic Times: “Was it because he felt that a deserving person in his party had eventually got his due, or was it because he felt that it was a good riddance?”