Some people in Mamata Banerjee’s inner circle must have their knives out for her. On the day of the Durga Puja carnival in Kolkata that coincided with the climate calamity in north Bengal, instead of handing her a note at the start of the event advising her to publicly commiserate with those bereaved and left homeless in the floods and landslides, the Brutus handed her a violin.

As a result, what the world saw was not just Mamata clapping and dancing with a bevy of starlets on a grand stage on the city’s arterial Red Road as the idols of goddesses rolled by on flatbeds, it even saw her pretend-playing the violin thrust into her hands.

All this, while north Bengal drowned.

How her adversaries must have smirked when cameras clicked and recorded for history the moment when a violin-playing

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