hey are all equals at the top of the Trinamul Congress pile, comrades united in the cause of Mamata Banerjee, but every autumn, they turn into fierce competitors, not in politics, but Puja.
Till the paribartan, the biggest social festival in Bengal used to see many divides — north versus south of Calcutta, theme versus traditional décor, neighbourhood versus neighbourhood — but since 2011, the greatest divide of them all is the one that separates Mamata’s trusted lieutenants, vying to make their pujas the biggest crowd-pullers in the city.
While some, like Subrata Mukherjee, are veterans now, having been in the game since the ’70s, others, such as Aroop Biswas, are not to be taken lightly, although they have emerged on the scene in the last decade.