Folk singer Basudeb Das Baul may have wanted to regale Union home minister Amit Shah with a song on “amity and peace” before the lunch he hosted at home on Sunday, but could not.
There seemed to be just no time for the song Basudeb had planned,
Orey manus dekhbi jodi bhogoban (o human, if you want to see god), which talks of religious tolerance. Basudeb could just sing a welcome song in front of the home minister before being “prodded” for lunch.
Shah, who lunched on rice, dal, roti, potato and pointed gourd fritters,
alu-posto, among other simple vegetarian Bengal dishes, however, asked for a third roti after the first two.