Grief, tears and fears as India mourns ‘iron lady’ politician

Hundreds of thousands of people thronged the southern Indian city of Chennai Tuesday to honour their beloved leader, J. Jayalalitha, a former film actress and powerful politician popularly known as “Amma”(mother). A sea of weeping mourners surged toward the steps of a public hall in Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu, where Jayalalitha’s body, draped in the…