India's 'Queen of Democrazy' at the crossroads of change

May 14, 2012 12:22

No fresh new on the Nepal plane crash as yet, though TV channels continue to push it as Breaking News.

Read this report on reuters, in the meanwhile:

Kolkata's red-brick secretariat was built more than 200 years ago for Britain's East India Company, which used trade in opium, cloth and tea to colonize the subcontinent.

Distrust of foreign merchants lingers still. For the past year, the sprawling building has been occupied by Mamata Banerjee, the diminutive chief minister of West Bengal state who is perhaps the largest obstacle to economic reforms that would allow 21st-century traders free access to India's consumer markets.

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