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A day before the fifth-phase of polling in Bengal, a Bengali song that spoke out against Fascism has found an echo in the hills of Darjeeling. “Ma katai pani jaadina, yahi desh mai basnechhu (I won’t go anywhere else, I will live in this country),” says the Nepali song, almost literally translating the Bengali song in Nepali, and also sharing the visuals from the original. The Bengali song “Nijeder mote nijeder gaan (Our views, our songs) speaking out against the politics of hatred had created a flutter.   Advertisement In the Bengali version, Rabindranath Tagore’s 1923 play Raktakarabi (Red Oleanders) inarguably his strongest protest against authoritarianism and exploitation, had featured prominently.  The Nepali version has been performed by Laaliguraas, meaning red rhododendrons, a socio-cultural organisation that has been at the spearhead against Fascism.

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