There’s been no escaping
pishi and
pishi not so much
bhaipo remains one of the few surviving sentinels guarding the citadel of a pluralist Bengal. Those at Bengal’s doors
pishi’s detractors think otherwise: the pair, they allege, represents nepotism and corruption that they would get rid of with a few lusty blows of their (majoritarian) broom.
The depravity of politics Bengal’s politics is not an exception is such that it often forces viewers to turn their gaze elsewhere: towards, say, a far more luminous
pishi-bhaipo pairing. Leela Majumdar, a cousin of Sukumar Ray, was Satyajit Ray’s