View: By digressing from its vikas agenda, BJP is providing Didi a second wind

The Bengali word ‘pishi’ — father’s sister — has the hint of an ominous tone attached to it when not used to denote an actual blood relation. It can, in the right context, describe a belligerent woman, a harridan, who seems short on the kind of womanly traits Bengalis, both men and women, traditionally invest in ‘mashi’ (mother’s sister), ‘ma’ (mother) and, of course, ‘didi’ (elder sister).Abhishek Banerjee’s latest tryst with The Agency, of