To Satyabrata Chakraborty of Calcutta who expressed his views on Sudipto’s sister’s interview on Star Ananda. I disagree that she was incoherent. In fact, her arguments were cogent and she was very calm and composed as she spoke level-headedly about the perils of students getting involved in politics, urging them to concentrate on studying rather than pursuing paths of violence. In fact, her analysis of partisan politics and how the youth were engulfed by it without pinpointing any particular political party was an extremely mature stance which I felt our political leaders ought to take cognisance of. Her words were the genuine feelings, the outpouring of genuine grief, of someone who has just lost her brother. In fact, what seemed concocted to me is her subsequent “withdrawal” the next day of what she had said. As she withdrew her comments she appeared to be unconvincing as though she was being prompted. After all, her father and her brother did belong to the Left so how can she do the politically incorrect thing of speaking her mind and expressing her real thoughts? So she had to retract. When a person says two diametrically opposite things, I think it is wise for us to analyse the conviction with which a speaker says something.