West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Hindi has always been whimsical and evocative. She once famously riposted to Mulayam Singh Yadav: “Aapko shairi chahiye? Main shairi doonga.” Accustomed to referring to herself as a “simple man,”- editorials in the Bengali newspaper Ananda Bazaar sometimes call her “Shri” Mamata Banerjee-Didi has little time for the masculine/feminine genders of the Hindi language.
Now, as the confrontation builds between the Centre and West Bengal government over the CM’s late attendance at the prime minister’s Kalaikunda air base meeting, and the absence of former chief secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay, with the Modi government now shooting off a show cause notice to Bandopadhyay, it’s not surprising that Didi has deployed her colourful Hindi to emphasise her do Read More
