Pune, Feb. 1 -- On a hazy evening in Mumbai, the political climate appeared charged as Ajit Pawar's widow Sunetra Pawar was sworn in as Maharashtra's deputy chief minister, catapulting her from the periphery of power to its very centre. In a state that has had a long history of prominent and powerful women in the social arena, women politicians in consequential positions have been conspicuously missing. On Saturday, Sunetra Pawar breached a glass ceiling when she became the state's first woman deputy chief minister. The 62-year-old Sunetra Pawar's rise is not merely an administrative development, it's a clear signal within the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) about who carries Ajit Pawar's legacy. It's also significant in the context of the...