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Tag: Prof Riten Mitra

The Grandson Who Made Me Fall in Love with Ila Mitra

Now that you are up there, Riten, tell your thakma how much you admired her Dear Riten, I first met Ila Mitra through you in March 2021, deep in the global panic of Covid19, although she was already gone 19 years then. I had glimpsed her in disparate blogs and some newspaper articles in Bengali online but she was the…