April 10 :    April 10:  Mamata Banerjee. Address: 36C Ballygunge Circular Road. Occupation: marriage registrar. Family: Husband and children. Not convinced? Well, you are not the only one. There are hundreds of others who think so and call her up in the dead of night, cooing adulation or shouting profanities. The consequence: Life turning topsy-turvy for a middle-aged housewife, a mother of two and recently-appointed marriage registrar of her area (Ward 69). The first (adulation), she can take in her stride, but it's the second (profanities) that gets her blood boiling sometimes. 'I sometimes want to complain to my namesake and request her to do something about my problem,' Mamata the marriage registrar said. It's then that she turns to her husband for solace. The advice she always receives: take the latter, too, in your stride. After all, her husband is an employee of the Trinamul-controlled Calcutta Municipal Corporation. So life goes on as usual - in the shadow of the Agnikanya. The shadow, as Mamata (not the politician) has found out, is not always a comfortable sitting place. 'One night, I received an anonymous call,' she recounted on Wednesday. 'The caller used language not fit to go to print and threatened me with unpleasant consequences if I continued opposing the state government's move to evict settlers from the banks of Tolly's Nullah,' she added. Irked, she tried explaining to the male voice the mistake he - and others of his ilk often - had made. 'But before I could say that I was not the Trinamul Congress leader and did not have anything to do with the Tolly's Nullah protests, he banged the receiver down,' Mamata said. She asked her husband to do something. ' 'No use,' he told me,' she added. But sharing a name with Bengal's principal Opposition leader has sprung pleasant surprises, too. One came at an ophthalmologist's in Jadavpur. 'The slip I gave in was in the queue after those of several persons,' Mamata told The Telegraph. But, to her surprise, she was the first to be called into the chamber as soon as the doctor came in. 'It was then that I realised that sharing a name with a celebrity has its better moments, too,' she added. There were also frequent calls - often at unearthly hours - from Didi's fans. Almost everyone had a few lines composed by him/her and dedicated to their 'elder sister', Mamata (the one with the mistaken identity) said. 'The poems are almost always followed by a request for a critical appreciation,' she said. 'Often, I don't have the heart to disappoint. But there have been occasions when I was not believed when I said that I was Mamata all right, but not the one they were looking for,' she said, sitting inside her eighth-floor apartment and far from the grime and dust of the single-storeyed establishment on Harish Chatterjee Street in Kalighat. The adulatory calls are often preceded by a request that sounded strange in the beginning. 'Didi, onek door theke phone korchhi, doya kore rakhben na (Didi, this is a long-distance call, please let me finish),' the callers say. The Didi, when she heard what being her namesake meant for the Ballygunge Circular Road resident, was all apology. 'This is the first time that I am hearing such a strange story,' the Trinamul Congress leader said. 'And I am very sorry for her,' she added. 'But what can I do,' she sounded uncharacteristically helpless. 'But those who keep calling her must be genuinely looking for me', was all she could offer as solace.