In her letter to the CM, Jaya Dasgupta, principal secretary, planning and development, said the said article, as published in English in West Bengal recently, was a distorted version of what her mother Neela Dasgupta wrote in Bengali for a souvenir of Presidency College as a student way back in 1946-48.

Neela, Jaya and her daughter Joyoshi studied in Presidency. Incidentally, Joyoshi cleared the all India Civil Services Examination this year and was ranked 42nd.

The I&C department had requested Jaya for permission to translate Neela’s article in English and use it in West Bengal magazine.

The article, along with two others by Jaya and Joyoshi, appeared in this year’s March edition of West Bengal. In these write-ups, the three generations of Dasguptas reminisced about their alma mater.

Jaya has now written to the CM that the translation of her mother’s article was full of mistakes. “I apologise to you for encroaching on your time but I was aghast to read the version in English. It was fully distorted and full of mistakes. I request you to look into it.”

“I cannot understand how this kind of work can come out of that department. They did major injustice to my mother. Imagine this kind of write-up can appear in the government’s mouthpiece. I feel greatly ashamed. And I did not hide my feelings to the chief minister,” Jaya told The Indian Express.