Kabir Suman’s is a moving story, of how he first got drawn to Mamata Banerjee and then found that she ran a party in which she alone mattered. We can feel sad for Suman, but let us not get caught up in emotion. What the Coffee with BS (“The day the music died”, April 20) did not ask Suman, perhaps because he would have no answer (?), is what his solution is to the Maoist insurgency. It is nice to be able to sing songs about giving land back to people, but how do you keep them out of poverty unless industry is allowed to come in; and how do you bring in industry without giving it land? Suman would have had a problem with any party he joined. No party can afford to run its politics on the basis of emotions.
What we need to be concerned about is which party, while giving land to industry, ensures that land-losers get a good deal and are rehabilitated at the earliest.
Sanjay Sinha, New Delhi
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