I write songs, poems, nursery rhymes, draw photos, and typically sing. Mamata Banerjee has by no means shied away from expressing her inventive aspect.
On Friday, as folks throughout the state celebrated Saraswati Puja, Banerjee posted a track on X sung by Trinamool Congress MP Aditi Munshi, knowledgeable singer. She wrote the lyrics for the business and set it to music. The primary stanza now reads: “This Basant Panchami, could the youth transfer ahead with renewed power, break all boundaries and obstacles and tear despair to items.”
“At the moment is Vasant Panchami.”
Younger persons are coming in new tendencies,
break down boundaries
Break by way of frustration. ”Wishing you all Saraswati Puja and Vasant Panchami with all my coronary heart and love, greetings and finest needs.
On this event, I want to share with you a Saraswati Puja track written and composed by me and sung by Aditi Munshi. pic.twitter.com/VoCxpglF5D
— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) January 23, 2026
A day earlier, on the opening ceremony of the Kolkata Worldwide Ebook Honest, Banerjee stated she had written 26 poems towards the Particular Intensive Revision of Electoral Registers (SIR), which she and her celebration have persistently focused as an try and disenfranchise voters. Banerjee stated the poems, which take care of the theme of “harassment and struggling confronted by widespread folks resulting from SIR”, had been written in two days whereas flying on varied missions in helicopters.
This time, 9 books written by CM shall be bought on the TMC sales space on the e-book honest, bringing the whole variety of books written by her to 162. Over time, Banerjee’s books and “hundreds of poems” have lined quite a lot of topics, together with her wrestle as an opposition chief, the Singur and Nandigram actions that introduced down the citadel of the Left and propelled her to the CM chairpersonship in 2011, and the Centre’s insurance policies. Demonetisation, GST, CAA, NRC, violence and so on.
Banerjee’s projection of her inventive self by way of her poems, art work, and songs could also be learn as an try to claim cultural authenticity, regardless of being removed from the beliefs outlined by Bengal’s bhadralok norms. In distinction, her predecessor, CPI(M) chief Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, was praised for his persona as an informed Marxist. He was generally known as a movie buff and admirer of theater and poetry, and translated the works of Gabriel García Márquez into Bengali.
“However moderately than attempting to stay as much as lofty bhadralok beliefs, Mamata Banerjee is utilizing her lack of ample cultural capital to her benefit, establishing another mannequin of political management by which her simplicity and emotionality are property moderately than liabilities,” wrote anthropologist Kenneth Bo Nielsen in a e-book he edited in 2016 titled Democracy in India.
“Mamata Banerjee, in a extremely revealing preface to one among her collections of poems, writes, “I worry that this assortment is not going to entice readers’ consideration by way of the standard of the poems, however it might be appreciated for its brevity and emotional content material.” Equally, as a painter, she describes herself as “only a wanderer dabbling in colour.” Her work are (typically) valued by different artists sympathetic to her political agenda not a lot for his or her inherent inventive qualities, however for the “honesty and full of life feeling” or “ardour, enthusiasm, and grit” that shines by way of her canvases. Equally, she appears to be attracting voters’ consideration not by her ideology or the standard of her political eloquence, however by her simplicity, ardour, and emotional content material.”
In a 2022 paper revealed in Politics & Gender, political scientist Proma Raychowdhury argues that the function of Banerjee’s “higher caste social standing” is essential to how her Didi persona is cultivated, which is seen as representing marginalized folks whereas claiming “the cultural inheritance of the elite Bhadralok regime that she is considered opposing.”
prolific songwriter
Banerjee just isn’t solely a prolific poet but additionally a songwriter. Throughout Durga Puja final 12 months, CM launched a track on X on every day of the pageant. She additionally composed the theme track for the well-known Durga Puja in north Kolkata, which was sung by Reverend Indranil Sen. The well-known group puja participant has been recognized to ask CM to compose songs, and one among her hottest songs is: Maa Go Tumi Sarbojaninsung by singer Shreya Ghoshal.
Beforehand, in a business in September 2025, he wrote a track on the theme of “Bengali asmita (pleasure),” which is among the Bharatiya Janata Occasion’s key methods to counter Hindutva politics, with the intention to protest the alleged mistreatment of Bengali migrant staff in different states.
On June 21, 2025, she launched the track “Ami Sangeet Piyasi” (translated as “I’m a music lover”) on the event of World Music Day, and earlier that 12 months, on January 12, at a particular live performance in Kolkata, Sen and different singers took to the stage to sing the track from the business.
In 2019, a seven-song assortment ‘Mati (soil)’ written and composed by Banerjee was launched earlier than Durga Puja. Some songs are: You may eat meals, you may eat greens. (The mountains cry, the inexperienced cries), Matty Armal Moner Fauchor (The soil is the harvest of my coronary heart), Akash Tumi Brishti Dill (Sky, you made it rain). Ma go tomar balabasha e (Mother, in your love) A bit of little bit of your humba humbahu, loopy loopy (swinging forwards and backwards) and Ciro ekta chot maye (There was a younger lady).
