#Books: Didi - The Indomitable Mamta Banerjee
Six months ago I came across Mamta Banerjee's exclusive interview of 2004 on Walk the Talk by Shekhar Gupta and this was the first interview that gives you a glimpse of Didi the person. In the previous videos of Didi, I have seen her scolding someone or losing her temper so it never piqued my interest largely because of the lack of knowledge about the Bengal politics. But I really enjoyed watching this interview with Shekhar Gupta because she seems cool and she takes Shekhar Gupta to her party office, they walk in her locality. However, this video is memorable for me because of the important lesson I learned from Didi. It was in this interview that I came to know that she is a poet, an author and prolific painter and has published around 13 books which are indeed impressive considering how demanding her life in politics is she could strike a balance to pursue her interests. When Shekhar Gupta asked about how she finds time to do all this to which she replied that her brain was in