Maneka Mitra

Helle Lyng has appeared out of nowhere with a sudden bizarre interest in India. I find it all very suspicious. She writes for an unheard of paper in Norway, that is funded by the Norwegian government - and only does occasionally commentary pieces for them. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…

She is Olivia Banerjee, a gold medalist former student of Presidency University, Kolkata. The university has banned her from entering the campus & pusue her PhD there. The Reason is she sprayed a ABVP recruitment poster with words "FUCK RSS, Rapist, Casteist". This was followed - An FIR. Then she and another final yr postgraduate student from the sociology dept were expelled despite Olivia keep insisting that she alone sprayed these lines. Following the University action, the CM Suvendu Adhikari said “The ABVP has been cleaning cockroaches, termites, ‘dimagi naxals’ and others from the campuses of Presidency and Jadavpur.” It is that CM who few months ago brought a rally of half naked naga sadhus in front of prestigious Jadavpur University to flex his majoritarian politics. To expel Olivia and the other student they misrepresented the facts. They blamed them of insulting Swami Vivekananda as the ABVP used Swami Vivekananda's photo in that recruitment poster. When was Swami Vivekananda an RSS or ABVP member? He wasn't a cheap communal person either. In today's India, if he had existed, the BJP-RSS would've called him anti-national, dimagi naxal. Putting his photo on the posters of such a cabal of hate is itself an insult to him. Sometime back CM Suvendu said now they will start cleaning Dimagi Naxal from campuses. Olivia isn't scared btw. Nor the alumni and the other teachers. The English Professor of the University Dr. Kalyan Kumar Das, had written on his Facebook a day after their expulsion, “I don’t teach my students to become morons incapable of speaking truth to power! Let that sink in, powers that be!” I remember Netaji Subhas had also been expelled from this same institution when it was Presidency College. That time too, the reason was student activism.

Once Rishi Bagree’s neighbour forgot to use condom India is still paying price for that

Maneka is being ignored , sitting quietly while her dead husband’s seat is going to Rajiv Gandhi . Sonia cannot speak in Hindi , English is Italian accent, wearing high fashion western clothes and looking coldly at Maneka as a lowly being . That time I remember , phoned were a luxury, dining tables were aspirational , eating mangoes with fork and knife was elite , we had power cuts while these ppl were living in airconditioned luxury . I think Priyanka Gandhi watches these videos to copy Indira Gandhi style