Calcutta, Nov. 6 :    Calcutta, Nov. 6:  If it had its way, the new First Family would have stopped the photograph and the accompanying report from going into print. Such is their loathing for limelight. Buddhadev Bhattacharya and his family follow a code of life that puts a premium on high thinking, privacy and anonymity. The family comprises Bhattacharya's widowed mother Lila Devi, wife Meera (a librarian in a private organisation) and daughter Suchetana, now a first-year student of political science at Presidency College. His mother and wife attended the investiture at Raj Bhavan, partly amused, partly embarrassed because the spotlight was on them. But Suchetana gave the waiting cameras at Raj Bhavan the slip, as she chose to go to Netaji Indoor Stadium instead. From the stands, she saw her father bid an emotional farewell to Jyoti Basu. 'I am happy where I am,' she said . Soft-spoken, unpretentious and firmly rooted in reality, Meera is clearly the driving force of the family. She divides her time between office, where she is the universal 'Meeradi', and her world in a small, spartan flat on Palm Avenue, in south Calcutta. Meera has unshakeable faith in her husband, his honesty, his intellectual ability, his sense of fairness.'I know him, a rare human being, for so long that it is enough for me to be known simply as Buddhadev's wife,' she once told a family friend. Her deep respect and admiration for Bhattacharya flow from an appreciation of his spartan lifestyle and intellectual pursuits. In Meera, the new chief minsiter has a perfect companion who stands by him in times of need. Not many know that after his only sister, Chitrangada, a few years senior to him, died of malaria a few months ago, Bhattacharya was inconsolable. At Writers', he was the stone-faced administrator, but back home, he would cry like a child. It was Meera who helped Bhattacharya to overcome the loss. The family's obsession with anonymity was evident last year , when Meera and Suchetana stood in a queue for about an hour and a half to collect an admission form at Presidency. Suchetana was eligible for admission to Jadavpur University, too, but opted for Presidency because her father had studied there.