Dikshit on song

Call it the Sheila Dikshit's "jawani" moment. The exuberant septuagenarian Delhi chief minister has been elected three times and faces yet another election soon but this does not appear to have left her jaded. Last week at the inauguration of the IGL Suraksha Yojana, a programme to provide free insurance to drivers of CNG-run public transport vehicles, she added some entertainment to an otherwise routinely solemn occasion. When a choir sang the Hindi version of the rousing anthem, "We shall overcome" Dixit began clapping in tune, executed some sketchy dance steps and soon, she had the whole auditorium singing along.