Mamata's blue period

It is said before assuming office as chief minister Mamata Banerjee often tried her hand at painting or the synthesizer, even in the early hours of the morning. These days she is too busy to pursue her hobbies. Maybe that’s why she was seen fashioning flowers out of satin ribbons at the Bengal Leads Investor Summit when Industry Minister Partha Chaterjee was making his opening remarks. But the bigger point, perhaps, was the sycophancy that this art-work provoked; both Finance Minister Amit Mitra and Power Minister Manish Gupta were later seen scrambling for those flowers.