Flocking to Mamata

IN Media Watch Briefs | 11/05/2012

Ending the 34 year old Communist government’s rule made her feature on the list of Time Magazine’s hundred most influential people. Now, her recent meeting with Hillary Clinton has stirred up a frenzy of interview requests of her by foreign media. The Trinamool Congress leaders and the chief minister's office is said to have confirmed 16 requests from foreign media to interview Mamata Banerjee. The Times (London), The Independent (UK), The Straits Times (Singapore), The New York Times, The New York Times web and Gulf News, Dubai to name a few. (TOI)