Sources from Chennai have stated that Chief Minister J Jayalalitha, one of India's most charismatic political leaders, died in Chennai's Apollo Hospital on Monday night after a bitter 74 day battle for life, ending an era in Tamil Nadu politics and plunging the state in immense grief. She was 68. Jayalalitha, a spinster, breathed her last at the Apollo Hospitals just before midnight, over 24 hours after she suffered a cardiac arrest that derailed the halting progress she had been making