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 | Ode to farewell: A Kishore Kumar song for Mamata Our Correspondent In one of his best songs, zindagi ke safar me guzar jaate hain jo makaam… (from the movie Aap ki kasam), Kishore Kumar sang these immortal lines, Kal tadapna pade yaad me jinki/Rok lo roothkar unko jaane na do/Baad me pyaar ke chahe bhejo hazaron salaam/Woh phir nahi aate/Woh phir nahi aate (The people without whom you can't live/Cajole them; don't let them go/They won't come back, despite all your pleadings/They won't come back/They won't come back). One wonders if Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Bannerjee and her cranky followers ever relished the soulful number. But the meaningful lyrics by Anand Bakshi quite appropriately express the feeling of the motley crowd of Don Quixotes, professional revolutionaries and agent provocateurs that surrounded her. After Tata Motors bid adieu to Singur, the land restoration movement spearheaded by the Trinamool Congress and the Leftist outfit, SUCI, is now demanding from the West Bengal Fovernment to get a fresh industrial project at the former Nano site. "The site where the Tata plant has been built is no more arable. So, we want the Government to get some other industrial project to run from the site," SUCI's state secretary and central committee member Prabhat Bose said. As if getting a big industrial project were as easy as organizing a dance programme—we don't want X troupe, bring in Y troupe! "Where will the landless farmers go now? We want the Government to provide jobs for all those who have sacrificed their land for the Tata project and for the local youth," Bannerjee said. But, Madam, why are you asking this question? And why are you asking these questions now? Didn't you know the landless farmers will be without vocation if the Tatas quit? Such demands only highlight the ignorance of the protestors, for it is the private sector only that could have provided jobs and speeded up economic activity in the state. By throwing out a major industrial plant, it is not only the people who were directly related, like the vendors and local employees, who suffer; the mindless protests have also made other prospective investors jittery. What is more, most other states are ardently wooing industrialists. Bengal's tragedy is that earlier it was the communists who drove out industry in their adolescent zeal to create a proletarian paradise. But, even as they have accepted the folly of their doctrinaire excesses, their enemy, Banerjee, has embraced their ideology and is unwilling to let them make amends. It would be a good idea to make her relish Kishore Kumar's song. Woh phir nahi aate, Woh phir nahi aate —perhaps, the pensive pleading may soothe her frayed nerves. Perhaps, poetry may succeed where reason has failed. Posted on : 10/16/2008 Mail this article to your friend |