Who's that serious-faced little girl?

She is now the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Again



Who Would Have Guessed?:Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa (extreme right, front row) as a fourth grade student of Bishop Cotton Girls' High School in 1957.— Photo: Courtesy EGK & Son
Who Would Have Guessed?:Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa (extreme right, front row) as a fourth grade student of Bishop Cotton Girls' High School in 1957.—
As All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) Chief J. Jayalalithaa was being sworn in again as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, a small circle of people in this city, who once knew her as a wide-eyed little girl with pigtails, excitedly recalled those days.One of them, Stella Samuel told this reporter: “I can help you find a group photograph with her in it, shot in 1957. She was in her fourth grade then.”