Updated Dec 28, 2020 | 22:14 IST
Mamata Banerjee will hold a roadshow in Bolpur on Tuesday, just days after Amit Shah s roadshow there. TMC tries to evoke the Tagore pride to corner BJP in consonance with their outsider narrative. Mamata s weapon to fight BJP is Tagore legacy
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Mamata all set to lead a roadshow in Tagore s Shantiniketan to reassert her outsider narrative against BJP
The chief minister was not invited at the Tagore s Visva-Bharati centenary celebrations
Mamata laments Visva-Bharati losing Tagore s ideals under BJP
Kolkata: In a major show of strength West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday will hold a roadshow in Birbhum, the very place where nine days ago Union Home Minister Amit Shah held his first roadshow in Bengal this election season.
Updated Dec 24, 2020 | 17:52 IST
While BJP has tweeted a purported invitation letter alleging Mamata chose politics over Tagore, Mamata laments that the event was made political sacrificing Tagore s legacy. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee | Photo Credit: PTI
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Mamata laments the speech of PM Modi, calls it politcal
Mamata will hold public rally in Bolpur on December 29
Kolkata: The centenary celebration of prestigious Viswa Bharati University is mired in a fresh controversy as Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal Chief Minister, was seen missing from the event on Thursday. The event was, however, attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and State Governor Jagdeep Dhankar. The Chief Minister said that she was never invited, never received any invitation and also dismissed claims made by BJP that the invite was sent by the University. She regretted the cultural event was made into a BJP event.
The Inimitable Saeeda Bano Lived Her Life Off The Beaten Track Book review
Off the Beaten Track is the last hurrah of Saeeda Bano who managed to live life on her own terms even in the midst of rampant male narcissism.
The inimitable Saeeda Bano was the first female news reader at All India Radio (AIR) since 1947. She was affectionately called Bibi.
Born in 1913 in Bhopal, Bibi blames Lucknow for some of the woes she was forced to face in life. The suffocation that women felt in Lucknow then was due to deep rooted conservative values that were followed blindly unlike her life in Bhopal.