India, June 22 -- Over a month since the lotus bloomed in West Bengal, the state finally has the eggs in place - but the omelette that a long-suffering public was promised is still awaited.

The newly-elected Bharatiya Janata Party government in Bengal has inherited both a mandate and a moment. To build great dreams of development, industrial reconstruction and transparent governance, it must now go all out and make the changes the state has been waiting for.

The irony, then, is hard to miss. The egg - that humble symbol of nourishment and new beginnings - has become Bengal's projectile of choice for political protest. People want the omelette on the platter. They are still waiting.

The 'Egg Therapy' Season

Defeated Trinamool Congress ...