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Kolkata: Intellectuals from across the city, including artists Suvaprasanna and Jogen Chowdhury, poets Subodh Sarkar and Joy Goswami, singer Kabir Suman, film personalities Arindam Sil and Raj Chakraborty will meet at Bangla Akademi at 3pm on Sunday to raise their voices against Visva-Bharati University and the BJP-led Centre’s, “attempt to target” Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, whose family links with Santiniketan goes back several decades. State cabinet minister Bratya Basu, who is also the convenor of the meet, is likely to be the only Trinamool Congress leader, to speak in the protest meeting. Basu said “Amartya Sen is being deliberately victimised. If someone as iconic as him can be politically targeted like this, one can imagine what they can do to others.” Basu said even Tagore had given up his Knighthood to protest against the British. “Did the British think of throwing him out of Uttarayan? Isn’t this absurd? In a democracy you can have differences with another p

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