The Change that Bengal needs

Dawn broke on Bengal on Friday with, for the first time in 34 years, a non-Communist in Writers’ Buildings. Mamata Banerjee is faced with problems unique in Indian politics, she is burdened with expectations unmatched in Indian history. Poriborton, for her voters, will have meant far more than the content-free call for “change” that has marked other election campaigns elsewhere. Here, they hope for fundamental alterations in what Bengal has become.

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