Culture's poisoned cauldron

Dada is a bhadralok literary critic and film buff, and firebrand Didi likes painting and singing. They are only too eager to promote their artistic patronage and interests in that most self-consciously intellectual of cities, Kolkata. Both have their coteries in the world of art, theatre and film but that common turf is no healing bond between West Bengal’s chief ministers past and present, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Mamata Banerjee. Both kept the portfolio of information and culture with themselves. Petty jealousies are now bubbling over in this poisoned cauldron.

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