New Delhi, Nov. 2 -- Dear reader,

I must start this week's edition of Best of the Week with an apology: for the first time in this newsletter's 22-month history, we'll only be bringing you five stories instead of the usual 10. I have a very good reason for missing out on half the workload for today.

More than a year ago, I had cribbed to you about how my current workload and timings don't permit me to indulge in long weekends. If you subscribe to the print edition of Mint, you would've noticed that it reaches your doorstep pretty consistently: Holi and Diwali are the only two publishing holidays for us.

Despite every public holiday and Vijay Mallya tweet, the Earth doesn't stop spinning on its axis, and news never stops coming. So any ...