Mamata Madness

It is irrelevant how streetsmart Mamata Banerjee was as West Bengal’s Opposition leader, but now as Chief Minister, she ought to be more levelheaded to be able to deliver on her promises (“Queen of Democrazy”, April 30). While Didi shows no gift of oratory in her impassioned speeches in Parliament, she is adept at the art of communicating with the aam aadmi on the ground. Lately, however, she has been whimsically arbitrary on several issues such as arresting a professor who ‘ dared’ to circulate a derogatory cartoon about her, banning the use of English dailies from public libraries and proscribing lessons on Marxism from the school syllabus!