CONGRATULATIONS, ABIR (Meghnad Bose)!
A good one, Abir (Meghnad Bose), to include me by way of complementary element when you compliment us thus that we ever imagined or said that you had ruined your career in opting to be a journalist! I, for one, as Mousumi Kaki (Mousumi Guha) will, if she remembers, testify, had prophesied when you had just got over with your Class 5 Final Examinations that you would be a journalist one day by way of future profession. This, on account of your mature maintenance of your diary on the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup with childlike professional dexterity. Thereafter, when you were on the threshold of your college days, as yet unsure of your future, it was I who always privately told your mother that you would eventually settle to become a journalist.
And so you turned out to be and we are all proud of you and your attainments thus far, and the future looks promising, too. But what has ever been your hallmark is your camaraderie, your feeling good when others do well, perhaps more than when you yourself do well. This is a spiritual quality that makes one see oneself reflected in others truly and not merely by way of social pretence. This ability to enlarge vision and see the broader aspect of a thing is what constitutes the core of enlightened citizenship. It is also the finest element in gregarious living, this happy harmony with others and never undue conflict save when one has to stand up for the rights of all and cannot quite cower under pressure of authority to subscribe to servile living.
Your work for the abused and the wronged ones in a society where ethical values are still scriptural prescriptions that need and need not practical application is commendable and in this you are doing diligently what you ought to as a journalist. But life is long and career eventually the pathway of the soul that leads one in the evening of one's evolution to God. This element of self-enlightenment you ought to also gradually gear yourself up for.
Society does not change for the better overnight and it takes the evolution of a vast mass of humanity to see significant changes in it in the ultimate light of spirituality, a higher moral order, the dignity of life in the truest sense and the creation of a terrestrial platform for the maximum fulfilment of all in education and experience that conduces to the all-round well-being of the human person, and why, of all of sentience for that matter, for we are all units of an integrated system that rises or falls together. As such, it would be worthwhile to study, meditate and introspect on the deeper purpose of life, for, indeed, this life is so very precious and is so hard to come by. Well has Adi Shankaracharya said, दुर्लभं त्रयमेवैतत् दैवानुग्रहहेतुकम्
मनुष्यत्वं मुमुक्षुत्वं महापुरुषसंश्रयः
- विवेकचूडामणि [Rare indeed are these three in conjunction come by --- a human birth, the desire to be free (spiritual liberation from the unceasing cycle of birth, life and death) and the association of a great soul (perfected sage).]
So, now, let me on behalf of us both, your mother and myself, congratulate you for your commendable work and express our happiness for the laurels won. An especial thankfulness to you for always living a larger-than-one-man life whenever it comes to sharing others' grief as your own and never ever failing to appreciate others for their work well done. Well done, Abir (Meghnad Bose), and may the entire team at The Quint be blessed in life and love and blissful union! ... Baba (Sugata Bose)
Written by Sugata Bose
— with Meghnad Bose.A good one, Abir (Meghnad Bose), to include me by way of complementary element when you compliment us thus that we ever imagined or said that you had ruined your career in opting to be a journalist! I, for one, as Mousumi Kaki (Mousumi Guha) will, if she remembers, testify, had prophesied when you had just got over with your Class 5 Final Examinations that you would be a journalist one day by way of future profession. This, on account of your mature maintenance of your diary on the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup with childlike professional dexterity. Thereafter, when you were on the threshold of your college days, as yet unsure of your future, it was I who always privately told your mother that you would eventually settle to become a journalist.
And so you turned out to be and we are all proud of you and your attainments thus far, and the future looks promising, too. But what has ever been your hallmark is your camaraderie, your feeling good when others do well, perhaps more than when you yourself do well. This is a spiritual quality that makes one see oneself reflected in others truly and not merely by way of social pretence. This ability to enlarge vision and see the broader aspect of a thing is what constitutes the core of enlightened citizenship. It is also the finest element in gregarious living, this happy harmony with others and never undue conflict save when one has to stand up for the rights of all and cannot quite cower under pressure of authority to subscribe to servile living.
Your work for the abused and the wronged ones in a society where ethical values are still scriptural prescriptions that need and need not practical application is commendable and in this you are doing diligently what you ought to as a journalist. But life is long and career eventually the pathway of the soul that leads one in the evening of one's evolution to God. This element of self-enlightenment you ought to also gradually gear yourself up for.
Society does not change for the better overnight and it takes the evolution of a vast mass of humanity to see significant changes in it in the ultimate light of spirituality, a higher moral order, the dignity of life in the truest sense and the creation of a terrestrial platform for the maximum fulfilment of all in education and experience that conduces to the all-round well-being of the human person, and why, of all of sentience for that matter, for we are all units of an integrated system that rises or falls together. As such, it would be worthwhile to study, meditate and introspect on the deeper purpose of life, for, indeed, this life is so very precious and is so hard to come by. Well has Adi Shankaracharya said, दुर्लभं त्रयमेवैतत् दैवानुग्रहहेतुकम्
मनुष्यत्वं मुमुक्षुत्वं महापुरुषसंश्रयः
- विवेकचूडामणि [Rare indeed are these three in conjunction come by --- a human birth, the desire to be free (spiritual liberation from the unceasing cycle of birth, life and death) and the association of a great soul (perfected sage).]
So, now, let me on behalf of us both, your mother and myself, congratulate you for your commendable work and express our happiness for the laurels won. An especial thankfulness to you for always living a larger-than-one-man life whenever it comes to sharing others' grief as your own and never ever failing to appreciate others for their work well done. Well done, Abir (Meghnad Bose), and may the entire team at The Quint be blessed in life and love and blissful union! ... Baba (Sugata Bose)
Written by Sugata Bose
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