After Singur, a new chapter unfolds in Tata Group-West Bengal saga

A meeting between Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Tata Group Chairman N Chandrasekaran has rekindled hopes of fresh investments by the group in the state that goes to polls next year

A picture is worth a thousand words, it is said. The frame capturing a beaming Tata Group Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee greeted him with an uttariya (a traditional stole) at Nabanna, the state secretariat, was also rich in subtext. 

The July 9 meeting marked the first formal engagement between a Tata Group Chairman and Banerjee, 14 years after she swept to power in 2011 on the back of a massive agitation against land acquisition that saw the dramatic exit of Tata Motors’ Nano project from Singur and reshaped the state’s political landscape. 

After the