Advise for Mamata Banerjee from Sagarika Ghose

April 17, 2012 13:13

What an election it was! Winning a tsunami of a mandate with 225 out of 294 seats in 2011, Mamata Banerjee was called the Indian Lech Walesa: the anti-communist "hero' who defeated the mighty communists through democratic politics. Last year I had dubbed her a subaltern goddess, Kali of the footpath, or West Bengal's new Ma Durga in a crumpled sari, who resided not in a remote shrine but fought her battle on the streets among her voters.

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