Politicians, academics, rights activists, and other notable figures gathered at the National Museum to express their condolences and pay tribute to the late Oikya NAP President Pankaj Bhattacharya yesterday.
Tagore initially had Kushari as their surname as the Brahmin family hailed from Kusha, the small hamlet of East Burdwan currently inhabited by 214 people, where not a single descendant of the Kusharis could be found on the poet's 162nd birthday.