West Bengal's populist chief minister is doing badly. Yet she typifies shifts in power in India
BUYER'S remorse is common enough in the dusty markets of Kolkata, a delightful if crumbling great city, once known as Calcutta and still capital of the state of West Bengal. Those who buy cheap plastic goods or plaster-of-Paris busts of Rabindranath Tagore, Bengal's cultural hero, may come to regret their haste. Likewise, many who voted in last year's state election. Sickened by 34 years of wretched Communist rule, they handed power to Mamata Banerjee and her party, the Trinamool Congress. The sense of regret is palpable.
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