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The lone warrior

ISSUE DATE: May 3, 2021 UPDATED: April 23, 2021 20:41 IST Feisty fighter: Mamata Banerjee on dharna in Kolkata against the EC’s 24-hour campaign ban on her The Gandhi statue on Mayo Road has been one of the preferred protest sites in Kolkata for political parties and civil society groups. On April 13, Mamata Banerjee chose the venue to mark her dissent against the Election Commission (EC). No war cries, no sloganeering, the West Bengal chief minister sat near the statue for several hours, apparently engrossed in painting. Senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders camped some distance away in solidarity. A day before, when the EC barred her from campaigning for 24 hours for allegedly making provocative remarks during electioneering, a furious Mamata had taken to Twitter to challenge the order as “undemocratic and unconstitutional”. But at the Gandhi statue, she was a picture of restraint. The EC had ticked Mamata off on two counts, for allegedly making a community-specific sp

The fight over the Matua vote bank in West Bengal overshadows the sect s anti-caste roots

Updated: April 23, 2021 16:26 IST The Matuas became a significant political entity after the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003, came into being Share Article AAA The Baruni fair procession in Thakurnagar, the holy site of Matuas in North 24 Parganas.   | Photo Credit: Debasish Bhaduri The Matuas became a significant political entity after the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003, came into being On a sultry April day, Thakurnagar, the holy site of Matuas in the Bongaon sub-division of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district bordering Bangladesh, sizzles with banners of rival political parties asking for votes. As if indifferent to the ongoing political tension and the pandemic threat, a boisterous religious rally makes its way through the town, with men jumping as high as they can and women rolling on the roads. The sound of drums gets deafening. Every participant seems to be in ecstasy.

Builders of Bengal: Lal Behari Dey

The Reverend Lal Behari Day, who had converted to Christianity, was a Christian missionary and a pioneer of Indian English writing. He was a journalist, writer and collector of Bengali folk tales, which he published in English.  He wrote about peasant life and the life of rural Bengal. His novel Govinda Samanta (1874) was celebrated as an account of the lives of the rural and working class populations and earned the admiration of Charles Darwin. Folk-Tales of Bengal (1883) was praised widely and is still regarded with great affection. His personal life was marked by bold choices made from early youth. Day was born to a family of Subarna-banik caste in Sonapalasi near Burwan. He came to Calcutta and studied at Reverend Alexander Duff’s General Assembly Institution (now Scottish Church Collegiate School) where under Duff’s influence he converted to Christianity in 1843, when he was 19.

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