Mirati

Drums and dancing tribals greeted the man who may just be India's next president, Pranab Mukherjee, at his native village Mirati in West Bengal's Birbhum district today. He hasn't shaken off his Finance Minister hat as yet, he is set to submit his resignation on June 26, so instead of talking about being India's first citizen, he spoke economy.

As in politics, so in the spiritual - Pranab Mukherjee leads the prayers at his ancestral home in West Bengal on the occasion of Durga Puja every year. The TV crews have only started coming recently, to the village of Mirati, 5 hours north of Kolkata - but this is an annual ritual, one which he has almost never missed.

Drums and dancing tribals greeted the man who may just be India's next president, Pranab Mukherjee, at his native village Mirati in West Bengal's Birbhum district today. He hasn't shaken off his Finance Minister hat as yet, he is set to submit his resignation on June 26, so instead of talking about being India's first citizen, he spoke economy.

As in politics, so in the spiritual - Pranab Mukherjee leads the prayers at his ancestral home in West Bengal on the occasion of Durga Puja every year. The TV crews have only started coming recently, to the village of Mirati, 5 hours north of Kolkata - but this is an annual ritual, one which he has almost never missed.