THE DIE IS CASTE
On her way to a rally in Khatra in Bankura district on November 23, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee made a halt at Benkia, a village of 116-odd Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) families. Sitting on a charpoy in a courtyard, she encouraged the womenfolk to talk about their problems and asked if the free rations promised to the poor by her government were reaching them. Within hours, social media was flooded with pictures of Mamata in the village.
Not long ago, on November 5, the 350-odd SC residents of Chaturthi village in
