A few weeks ago, as the Congress party was gearing up to corner the government for not divulging the agenda of the special parliamentary session, any of the senior leaders could be given the task of writing the letter to the Prime Minister. Different reports suggest that the name of the party President Mallikarjun Kharge even came up for once. But in the end, it was Sonia Gandhi who took the shot. Besides placing nine agendas that the opposition INDIA block wants to bring to the table during the session, the letter invoked another crucial political message: the importance of old hawks in Indian politics is not going to die down soon both for real political reasons and for its tendency to live in nostalgia.