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Tagore's song of celebration

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Business Standard New Delhi

Guess how one celebrates an electoral victory? After the results of Lok Sabha elections were out, Congress General-Secretary Rahul Gandhi had paid a quiet visit to the samaadhis of Rajiv Gandhi and Indira Gandhi in Delhi. In West Bengal, when Trinamool Congress swept the recent civic body polls, its chief Mamata Banerjee quickly returned to Kolkata and sought recourse to Rabindranath Tagore. First, she quoted a Tagore poem to remind the supporters that they should remain calm and modest. In the evening, she attended a wedding party and sang Tagore's songs along with other guests.

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First Published: Jun 06 2010 | 12:17 AM IST

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