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In an interview to discuss her memoir ‘An Education for Rita’, Brinda Karat reveals that Rita was the name she was first given when she joined the CPI(M). One of her colleagues called Chandrabhan, a textile worker and former wrestler, could never pronounce her name Brinda. He called her Birinder instead. She says: “My repeated efforts to correct his pronunciation had come to nought. It was probably with relief that he enthusiastically welcomed the suggestion to rename me. He said: ‘Let’s have a name that is easy to pronounce. We will call you Rita’. From that day for the next ten years, I was known as Comrade Rita.”
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