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Opinion | Mamata Banerjee’s Cosplay Comes From Deep Cultural Insecurity As The ‘Unintellectual’ Bengali

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16.05.2026

Opinion | Mamata Banerjee’s Cosplay Comes From Deep Cultural Insecurity As The ‘Unintellectual’ Bengali

While Mamata serviced her whims and insecurities, West Bengal’s spineless intelligentsia, film personalities, and vice chancellors of universities unabashedly enabled it

Even after a humiliating electoral defeat, former West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has refused to stop her role-play of what-she-is-not. She appeared in a lawyer’s black robes at the Calcutta High Court to argue a case related to post-poll violence, making her the first sitting (and recently former) chief minister to do so in more than one court.

She had reportedly procured an LLB degree from Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri Law College, Kolkata, way back in 1982. But does that make it fine for her to strut around in lawyers’ robes?

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