Be Brave and Strong: Mamata Banerjee Post-Defeat Message

In a reflective yet combative literary response to her party’s recent poll defeat, Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday shared a poem titled "Brave", invoking courage, dignity and inner strength in the face of adversity.

Written in simple, direct lines that are characteristic of Banerjee’s political poetry, the poem comes across as both a personal reflection and a message to the demoralised TMC cadre after the BJP’s victory in the just-concluded West Bengal Assembly polls that ended the party’s 15-year rule in the state.

"Be brave and strong," the former West Bengal chief minister wrote in the opening line.