IN RESPONSE TO SWAPAN KONAR'S LABELLING ME AS BJP MATERIAL AND, SO, NOT QUITE IN HARMONY WITH THE FACT THAT I AM ALSO A NETAJI SUPPORTER

IN RESPONSE TO SWAPAN KONAR'S LABELLING ME AS BJP MATERIAL AND, SO, NOT QUITE IN HARMONY WITH THE FACT THAT I AM ALSO A NETAJI SUPPORTER

Sugata Bose : [@Swapan Konar] Again you have started your tantrums with your insensitive and infantile comments, even positively distasteful for a person of your advanced age which holds me back from giving you a befitting rebuff. You say --- I do not --- that I belong to BJP. May I ask you a similar question now. Do you belong to CJP (Chinese Janata Party)? Also, it seems you do not consider human beings as humans but as material, for you have labelled me 'maal'. Nothing better may be expected of a Communist, in case you are one, for you must be then an avowed dialectical materialist and a historical materialist, too. P.S. : To reiterate my earlier reply a month or so back when you had thus attacked me verbally, I am strictly an apolitical person reserving my political activity to just casting my vote when it is election time. That you harbour such misconceptions about others so easily seriously raises questions about the sanity of the political discourse these days in our country, no less in our benighted Bengal. I can understand where it all comes from and I feel all the more inspired thus to propagate the cause of Swamiji and Netaji to thwart the malicious designs of millions led astray by tortuous political texts and training in a culture that betrays our best interests as a nation.

Sugata Bose : [@Swapan Konar] Why did you edit your comment and soften it? Let people read into your level of civility and your degree of decorum in civic discourse? Did you feel ashamed of your earlier rather shameful comment where you used the derogatory term 'maal' to identify my person?

Sugata Bose : [@Swapan Konar] You are an Indian and a man of fairly advanced age and, yet, you speak in rather coarse language in addressing people. This also is incongruous. As far as my affiliation to any order of political belief is concerned, I have already stated that I am apolitical strictly. However, it has not made any impression on your mind full of preconceptions about others. Hence, your rather caustic remark. Learn civic propriety please and desist in future from spewing venom on others which only express your level of cultural refinement. Do not forget your essential divinity. Go back to Vivekananda. As for my devotion to Netaji and not mere support, as you say, I need no assistance in this regard from an erudite like you who can fathom another individual's essence of being in a trice to pass his valued judgement on such. I am content to be myself and so be you in mutual reverence which, after all, is the best way to proceed in this world of wild differences and wilder intolerance of such. As for harmony of ideological inclination, well, the socialists and the communists may have their views about the same and so do the Vedantists have, only at a much deeper level where materialism, which the extreme leftists vouch for, reaches not. Thus, having my foothold well located in the foundations of the Self (Atman), I profess devotion to Swamiji and Netaji and to the Sanatan Dharma which is my country's spiritual culture and mine, too. There is no incongruity in this if you are well versed in the spiritual tradition of our motherland and have not strayed so far as yet that a return of the prodigal son even at this advanced age is no more possible. With the best of wishes for you and yours, for we are essentially one in the being, I remain your countryman and fellow citizen, Sugata Bose.

Sugata Bose : [@Swapan Konar] Thank you and do accept my pranam.

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P.S. : Sugata Bose : [@Debkumar Chatterjee] I have driven home my point. But I have too great a respect for the human being who is, after all, divinity incarnate, for me to castigate any for frivolous comment made. Going by his profile picture --- that is, if one is to have a fair faith that it is the one of the gentleman who has thus commented --- and thereby gathering the apparent fact that he is an elderly gentleman, my fundamental culture prompted me to respond the way I did. And I did so in no uncertain terms. Being rude to another person for no rhyme or reason or for very little apparent reason would undo my culture and reduce me to the 'maal' (material) I had originally been labelled as before sanity restored things and the comment was edited. So, in the fitness and in the fullness of things, democratic discourse was brought to a level of better decorum than would have been the case had I been vociferous unduly at flimsy comment made on my person for whatever political persuasion a person may have subscribed to which impels him in a moment of weakness to thus utter words worth condemnation. So far as the poet goes, I must confess that he was my primary professor in my learning such civility that I have alluded to before the volcanic Vivekananda completed my training to make me the man I am today.

THE TASHKENT MAN

THE TASHKENT MAN

Now it is widely suspected that Lal Bahadur Shastri was poisoned to death in Tashkent. Who was it that he had met there that brought about his untimely demise? Was it Netaji? If so, how? What are the credible facts available to us that would convince us thus? Who was the Tashkent Man? Was he Netaji? But his face does not apparently quite match with Netaji's it seems. Does it? He seems to be quite young for a 68 year old man and looks younger than Netaji was in 1945. Moreover, the shape of the ear does not quite seem the same as Netaji's. Even the looks of the gentleman does not have the same luminosity of Netaji's. Yet, the British face-mapping expert, Neil Millar, when commissioned to unveil the mystery of this 'Mystery Man', came to the rather astounding conclusion that the facial features of both Netaji and the Tashkent Man are uncannily alike. So, what is your take on this issue? Who was the Tashkent Man? Was he Netaji?

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P.S. : Sugata Bose : But, Fraeortis Satarawalla, believers say that Netaji had thus disguised himself to avoid detection, that is, he had hair implanted on his scalp. I guess that is what the faithful believe it to be. Again, as Saurav Bhattacharjee rightly says, it could have been a wig as well.

Sugata Bose : [@Fraeortis Satarawalla] That is hardly ever likely for all such will invariably come under some sort of political compulsion, complex as the case is with its national and international ramifications. At least that is what has been the stated position of the Government of India in the past and that is how it has conducted itself with utmost secrecy about the Netaji Files.

Sugata Bose : You are very right, Keka. Your artist's eye caught keenly the difference.

Sugata Bose : Not quite, Prasenjit Ghosh. Gumnami Baba was not in India at that time.

Sugata Bose : Netaji biographer Mihir Bose had said in an interview that this Tashkent Man was a Pakistani diplomat. View this video at 4.48 min and thereafter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XilgZJsGICE...

Sugata Bose Apparently no one. I have read in Abhirup Sarkar's comment that no one was allowed in those days to go near the room where the sage stayed for the period of time that Bhagavanji stayed out of India. In other words, no dummy, empty room, none allowed to see inside.

Sugata Bose : It is necessary to solve the Tashkent Man mystery in order to counter the claims of the recently published book that Bhagavanji suffered from Post Trauma Stress Disorder or PTSD.

Sugata Bose : [@Joy Deep] The Tashkent Pact took place in 1966 and Bhagavanji arrived at Faizabad in 1983. Am I getting it right? So, perhaps, he was elsewhere located in Uttar Pradesh at around that time and not Faizabad. Moreover, I have read in a comment of Abhirup Sarkar that at the time of the talks in Tashkent, Bhagavanji was absent from his location in India and there was no dummy whatsoever doing replacement duty for him there. Rather, no one was allowed to go near or enter his residential room where a strict vigil was kept up to uphold the secrecy so as to avoid detection of his absence. This is hearsay evidence for me and you may have other references whereby you may judge better. Abhirup Sarkar may also corroborate on this with added information.

SISTER NIVEDITA IN A TRUER LIGHT ... 1

SISTER NIVEDITA IN A TRUER LIGHT ... 1

It is not true to say that Sister Nivedita dedicated her life in India for women's education as is the standard official refrain of the Order to which she belonged. She sure did so but she laboured tirelessly for the national regeneration in every sphere as well including the awakening of the political consciousness of the masses, quickening them through her fiery speeches across the length and breadth of India.

Nivedita's association with the revolutionaries of the day including Aurobindo Ghosh, her being a member of their inner council of five and attending the revolutionary meetings in secret, her scathing criticism of the British government's policies in India in her newspaper articles, her seminal work for scientific development in her adopted motherland through her collaborative labour with Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose, her inspirational work for the entire intelligentsia of India in bondage from which cultural figures like Rabindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Abanindranath Tagore and a host of others drew sustenance, all these and much more were the burden of the Sister's attainments and the mission to which she dedicated her life in the land of her dreams. But her greatest mission increasingly turned out to be the quickening of the political consciousness of dependent India groaning under British tyranny. In this she stood rock-solid behind the Bengal revolutionaries led by Aurobindo Ghosh and became the inspirational figure of the freedom movement with all her Irish patriotic fervour and Vivekananda-fire impelling her into action.

Sister Nivedita, thus, to my mind, must truly be remembered not merely as one of the many pioneers of women's education in India but as the one who totally consecrated her life to the emancipation of suppressed India in every sphere, not the least of which was the liberation movement of colonised India. To deliberately downplay her political attainments is to be a falsifier of history which ought not to be indulged in.

Vande Mataram !

Written by Sugata Bose

BACK TO VIVEKANANDA ... 1

BACK TO VIVEKANANDA ... 1

The country today needs character. The youth have lost their way. Indigestion of Marxism and consequent vituperation against Vivekananda seems to be their lot. Sad to see this sheer wastage of youthful resource in the bloom of their lives. I shall spare no means to help correct the course of many an errant soul now meandering in the maze of tortuous texts which, when wrongly comprehended, sully the mind and lead these freshest flowers of humanity awry into the desert sand of decadence and destruction. What is needed today is a return to Vivekananda. What is needed today is a refurbishing of the roguish mind with the shraddha of Nachiketa, as Swamiji was wont to saying.

Written by Sugata Bose

HOW LONG, SIR, HOW LONG ?

HOW LONG, SIR, HOW LONG ?

Netaji researchers (Drjayanta Choudhuri, Madhusudan Pal and Keshab Bhattacherjee), wake up ! Modern researchers have joined in the bandwagon and are citing wrong references constantly in their vain and foolish bid to seek the limelight. I need not mention names for it would be a breach of propriety.

Cases of such wrong reference in a recent TV presentation available on YouTube :

1. Netaji wrote a letter when he left Kabul in 1940. (1941, perhaps?)
2. Netaji's closest kith and kin, his wife and ...?

Such and many others are constantly coming into the public domain and are creating confusion in the minds of the common people exposed to such. Shall you not respond?

Written by Sugata Bose

RETORT TO DERISIVE REMARK

RETORT TO DERISIVE REMARK

Pradyumnya Basu : Apni ato proshno koren keno... Apni ki sobar exam nan... Naki apni kichu e janan na.

Sugata Bose : @ Pradyumnya Basu ; Prashna korar uddyeshyo janamanashey kichhu tatporjyopurna bishoy ankito kora, tnader chintalokey eishokol bishoygulir utthaponey punoh sachetanataa srishty kora, purono bhranta dharana theke beriye ashtey sahayata kora natun aloker nirikhey o nijer asamapta shikshakey apnar moto biddvatjaner nikot sampurnata laabher prayashkalpey svatahprerito hoye. Jathaarthai dhorechhen, amar jnan prayey ajnantulyoi ebong apni je kripaparobosh hoye ei pratiprashna tulechhen tatei amader desher apnar moto bijnajaner jnaner paridhijnaney amar ei prashnaprakalper aangshik saphalyasadhan holo. Apnar aashirbaad bhiksha kori jatey apnar atul jnansambharey samriddha hoye bhabishyatprakalpey abhranta padakshepey agrasar hotey pari. Pranata apnar shreecharaney apnari chirashishya o binito jnankripaabikshu, Sugata Bose.

Indrajit Choudhury : নেতাজি সম্বন্ধে যে ব্যক্তির ন্যূনতম জ্ঞান নেই ,তিনিও বলবেন যে এটি একটি অসভ্য এবং অবান্তর প্রশ্ন । এটা কি বাংলা টিভি সিরিয়ালের ক্যারেক্টার ?

Sugata Bose : Prashna sobsomoyei tultey hobe Netaji charitra ke nishkalanka dyakhanor abhiprayey karon aajo bahu manush ei bibaha byaparti sambandhey aparishkaar dharana niyei Netajike bibahita bole mone koren. Atoyeb, prashna tuley alochonar abataarona kora ekanto aboshyok, tai ekhaney taar uposthapona. Kono prashnai abaantar noy, asabhyo toh noy e. Sangjatochitta hon, bhasha parimarjita korun. @ Indrajit Choudhury

Sitaram Mukherjee : আপনি কি বলেন?

Sugata Bose : Ami prashna rekhechhi apnader motamot prakasher jonyo. Amar mot toh bahubar bolechhi nana lekhay. Hoyto apnar ta porar abokaash hoyni. Abar likhbo, porben anugraha kore.

Minarul Mondal : সুগতো,,,,বাবু,,,,সবাই,,,,জানে,,,,আপনি,,,,কাদের,,,,হয়ে,,,,কাজ,,,,করেন,,,,নেতাজি,,,কে,,,

ছোট,,,,করার,,,,জন্য

Sugata Bose : Jathaartha bolechhen bhrantachitta hoye. Chittaprakshalon kore bibechonapurbak abar likhben. @ Minarul Mondal

Pinaki Bhattacharya : apni janen na?naki eai sob abantor prosno kore nijer bokamo prokash korchen? eai sob na jene, netajir karmojog ta anuvob karun..

Sugata Bose : Apni nijeke ati buddhiman bhebe o sheimoto amar sambandhey abhimot prakash kore nijekei janasamakshey kshudra pratipanna korchhen. Eyjonyo kintu ami dawi roilam na. Aparer sambandhey ajotha durbakya proyog asha kori Netaji anuraagi o anugaamider gawsagu (H.C.F.) ba lawsagu (L.C.M.) noy. @ Pinaki Bhattacharya

NETAJI'S FAMILY --- AN OFT-QUOTED MISNOMER IN THE LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT SO MANY OF ITS MEMBERS ARE DELIBERATELY KEPT OUT OF THE DISAPPEARANCE DISCOURSE

NETAJI'S FAMILY --- AN OFT-QUOTED MISNOMER IN THE LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT SO MANY OF ITS MEMBERS ARE DELIBERATELY KEPT OUT OF THE DISAPPEARANCE DISCOURSE 

We often hear from media-men and so-called historians that we need to bear in mind what Netaji's family's stance is about his whereabouts post-disappearance. Here we must be wary of not treading into the dangerous zone of merely considering one line of Netaji's fraternal lineage as being representative of his entire family and, so, falling into the pitfall of segmented comprehension instead of the totality of it gleaned from the entire and rather large spectrum of the Bose family. It is important to consider the entire family's opinion on the disappearance issue for that is how a more correct and comprehensive picture of it will emerge.

Truth stands independent of human opinion. Thus, to lay exclusive claim on it by way of superior possession of lineage is contrary to this self-dependent status of truth. Whether one line of Netaji's family subscribes to a particular conviction about him post-disappearance hardly matters and in no way alters reality. While a section of the Bose family may hold one particular view about the leader, another section may hold quite another view. So, to lay emphasis on one section's opinion alone to the callous neglect of the other is to be insincere in the pursuit of truth. The entire spectrum of familial opinion must necessarily be given credence to if one is to be sincere in the unravelling of the truth. Moreover, a section of the extended family by public adulation cannot lay exclusive claim to the proprietorship of Netaji's legacy and, thus, secure sole rights to the proliferation of whatever choice theories they may have about (a) Netaji's escape from his Elgin Road residence (b) his alleged marriage and progeny (c) his whereabouts and fate post-disappearance on 18 August, 1945. They must be held accountable to the people of India to submit whatever documents they have in their possession for thorough investigation and research by scholars. 

Netaji is national property and not the possession of the particular family of his birth. This Netaji himself had publicly avowed and this the family itself has on many an occasion averred. Thus, the family becomes, in the light of this statement, one of the key players in this movement to uncover the truth, no doubt, but not the sole participant in it. And, where the family has not cooperated with the programme of unravelling the truth and has gone on harping on the same tune of air-crash, marriage et al, despite the declassification of relevant files countering such peculiar convictions, the people must become vociferous in denunciation of such deliberate attempts to bury the truth by constant contrary affirmations in the media.

Public adulation of Netaji must not be indiscriminately extended to his larger kith and kin, for that would be akin to extension of royal privilege in a democracy that has banished feudalism. This slovenly attitude of the public towards these supposed higher familial beings, simply because they are blood-related to Netaji, is a travesty of the very democracy that our Constitution enshrines as our polity's fundamental feature. This ought to go and sanity return to the discourse on the basis of hard facts and figures, documents and data.

Drjayanta Choudhuri said the other day that documents speak for themselves. But do they in real terms in this nation where people still hold on to the archaic feudal spirit of servitude to the master? Why must any family hold privilege over the people by dint of its association with the peerless patriot and why must the people accept such servitude of sorts? If facts reveal the pathway of the hero one way and documents or their absence point to the fact that Netaji was a lifelong celibate, then to propagate the malicious lie that he died in the air-crash and that he had married and had progeny thereof is the cruellest crime that could have been committed for whatever self-interest against a pristine, pure being, one which has tainted and tarnished the otherwise impeccable image of the Prince of Patriots. And this also ought not to have been, and it is high time that those who propagate these lies, despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, ought to retract their steps and align themselves with the truth that has already surfaced till date. That would be Netaji-like, indeed, and only then may these family members lay claim to being true kith and kin of Netaji. But old heresies revealed, perhaps, will hurt interests and these related ones find no avenue whatsoever left to them whereby they may find their way back to the mainstream of the discourse in terms of truth.

So far as the researchers are concerned, it ought to be their obligation to the nation to bring to light whatever information they have thus far gleaned from various interviews of the entire familial spectrum so that the people are made aware of where each and every section of this inordinately large family stands in terms of convictions about the hero's life and times and his destiny in disappearance. Researchers need to be free from egotistic compulsions, petty self-interest in terms of acquiring flimsy name and fame that will pass like the spring breeze in no time rendering them dry when the scorch of the summer sets in, and the obstinacy that allows them not the magnanimity to combine strengths in propagating the truth about the common ideal of their lives, their beloved inspirational liberator of the motherland, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

It is a veritable shame that a few far less knowledgeable activists, by dint of their faculty for combination, have stolen the show and feed into the mainstream discourse their preferred narrative about Bhagavanji which is being filmed as well and is due for release in the coming days. To clamour that such distorted versions of the reclusive being ought not not to be propagated is like crying over spilt milk after one has spilled the milk oneself. Is it not what these researchers deserve in the light of their inability to effectively combine and form a counter-association for the propagation of the truth which is the stated purpose of this writer? Well, even then, how many are coming forward to genuinely help this writer to advance the cause of truth and dispel the illusions thus far harboured by the bulk of the population about the alleged miscarriages of the patriot's career? Here do not say that Jayasree Prakashan is there for such a cause and it has been functioning fine for the last eight decades. That seminal organisation and pristine publication notwithstanding, perfidies against the patriot peerless have proliferated and it ought to have been prevented by sufficient counter-propaganda whereby the people would have widely known the greater truth about the liberator of the land.

Leaving such regrettable non-performance behind and drawing lessons from it, what we need today is an organisation of disciplined workers, committed to the cause in the manner mentioned decades ago at Haripura by Netaji himself. The formation of a think tank on Netaji ought to be our primary duty and this is our stated immediate objective as well. How far we shall succeed in this venture depends on the unselfishness of these avowed researchers, their pragmatic considerations and the degree of their love for the hero of their dreams about which there can be no doubts entertained whatsoever.

If we rise up in defence of the one that liberated us and do not pass such callous statements as of his invincibility against all odds for which we ought not to take effective action against his persona being maligned, we will have done our bit for the resurrection of the hero from beneath the cartloads of lewd literature that has piled on him ever since he disappeared, from the dusty shelves that have hidden his whereabouts in the yellow pages of dangerous documents lying as yet classified, and from the clutches of a coterie that controls and corrodes the course of the correct chronicling of the hero's historical narrative and destiny thereafter.

Come, let us join hands and combine our strengths to undo the perfidies perpetrated against our hero of epic proportions and, in so doing, let us at long last absolve ourselves of the sin of this terrible neglect we have left him to suffer ever since he disappeared into the fine mist one August afternoon.

Written by Sugata Bose

NETAJI RESEARCHER AND HISTORIAN, NOW A TERM IN EXPRESS EXHIBITED FOOLISHNESS

 

NETAJI RESEARCHER AND HISTORIAN, NOW A TERM IN EXPRESS EXHIBITED FOOLISHNESS

Those that claim to be researchers, many of them, perhaps, most of them, except a handful likeDrjayanta Choudhuri, Madhusudan Pal and Keshab Bhattacherjee, are fundamentally gathering facts from published books and feigning to be researchers. How can the truth come out from these pretenders? It is self-propagation that inspires them to be Netaji researchers and now that the oven is hot, they are jumping into the bandwagon to bake their bread of false claims and commercial concoctions.

We must be wary of these pretenders to truth, these self-professed protagonists of Netaji's cause in his absence, these seekers of the limelight and these profit-makers at the leader's expense, for Netaji now provides an abundantly lucrative commercial career for a person willing to invest his time and energy into pursuing pretentiously even the mystery surrounding his disappearance.

It is such a shame that the intellectual culture of this nation has plummeted to such an abysmal level that these mischievous ones are allowed to steal the limelight while genuine researchers do not get the occasion or the opportunity or the national platform to express their researched views on this contentious issue. Here we have a game on hand. Join me in this crusade for the establishment of the truth and the unmasking of whosoever dares spread malicious lies about the patriot premier.

Written by Sugata Bose

IN RESPONSE TO A READER'S SUPPLEMENT TO MY POST

IN RESPONSE TO A READER'S SUPPLEMENT TO MY POST

[ Ref : ''Organisation breeds new evils.'' ... by Swami Vivekananda ]

Naveena CK, it is not necessary to quote everything. It depends on the prerogative of the writer of the post. If you deem it better to do otherwise, proceed along your preferred line. Might as well quote the whole universe and innumerable others that have preceded, by way of citing the verses of the Ancient Poet who writes so beautifully and so violently at that, that the whole of space-time be filled with such secondary gibberish. Better to quote pertinent segments that relate to the mood and the idea seeking expression than cater to every reader's whim by way of fanciful referential response.

P.S. : This observation is as pertinent in ideal terms as the other --- not quite the latter part of it, so far as I can see --- is in pragmatic terms for the proliferation of the message.
[ ''To organise or not to organise? If I organise, the spirit will diminish. If I do not organise, the message will not spread.'' ... by Swami Vivekananda ]

I have read these two observations of Swamiji separately and not quite as one proceeding from the other in a single consolidated observation.

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হা ঠাকুর !

হা ঠাকুর !

দেশে রজোগুণের প্লাবন আনার অর্থ এই নয় যে ' আধ্যাত্মিকতার ' দোহাই দিয়ে প্রাতিষ্ঠানিক প্রকল্পে ও উদ্বোধন অনুষ্ঠানে অর্থের যথেচ্ছ অপচয় করা নৈতিকতার সীমা উল্লঙ্ঘন নয় | স্বামীজীর বাস্তব বক্তব্যের একটি ছিল মিতব্যয়িতা | সেটি আজ প্রাতিষ্ঠানিকভাবে বিস্মৃত | এই ভাবেই অবতারের পুনরাগমনহেতু যুগপ্রোয়জন সৃষ্ট হয় | আজকের এই অবক্ষয় এক ভগবান স্বয়ং নবকলেবর ধারণের মধ্য দিয়ে দূর করতে পারেন | হা ঠাকুর, হায় মা, হা স্বামীজী, হায় সিস্টার, এই কি শেষে আমাদের দশা হল ?
কোথা ঈশ্বর প্রস্তরখণ্ড প্রোথিত করার মাঝে ? নরদেবতা কেঁদে ফেরে পূজার অভাবে আর স্থবির অথর্ব মূর্তির প্রসন্নতাকল্পে অযোচিত অর্থের অসদ্বব্যবহার !

রচয়িতা : সুগত বোস (Sugata Bose)

CELEBRATE WHILE THE MASSES SUFFER

CELEBRATE WHILE THE MASSES SUFFER

There is but one God and that is the vast mass of sleeping humanity groaning under the tyranny of the capital. Indiscriminate inconsequential expenditure on futile programmes geared towards supposed national development has become the bane of this movement. Vivekananda cries in agony.

Written by Sugata Bose

QUESTIONS CRISP, ANSWERS PITHY

QUESTIONS CRISP, ANSWERS PITHY

প্রশ্ন : জগতের স্বরূপ কি ?
উত্তর : নিরূপাধিক চৈতন্যসত্ত্বা |

প্রশ্ন : সাধুসঙ্গের ফল কী ?
উত্তর : সত্ত্বগুণের সঞ্চার |

প্রশ্ন : ভ্রম কি?
উত্তর : দেহমনে আত্মবুদ্ধি |

প্রশ্ন : সন্ন্যাসী কে ?
উত্তর : যিনি কায়মনোবাক্যে পবিত্র, সর্বত্যাগী, ভোগে বিগতস্পৃহ, পরার্থতৎপর ও অহর্নিশি ঈশ্বরপ্রেমী |

প্রশ্ন : ধর্মাচরণে অপরিহার্য কি ?
উত্তর : পবিত্রতা |

প্রশ্ন : যোগে অপরিহার্য কি ?
উত্তর : কুলকুণ্ডলিনী জাগরণ |

প্রশ্ন : বিবর্তনের গতিপথ কি ?
উত্তর : এক হতে বহু (প্রাথমিক, প্রবৃত্তিমার্গে) ও বহু হতে এক (পরিশেষে, নিবৃত্তিমার্গে) |

প্রশ্ন : কোথায় চলেছি ?
উত্তর : একত্বের অভিমুখে |

প্রশ্ন : স্বামীজী প্রদত্ত ভারতবাসির ব্রত কি ?
উত্তর : ত্যাগ ও সেবা |

প্রশ্ন : জীবনের উদ্দেশ্য কি ?
উত্তর : আত্মসাক্ষাৎকার |

প্রশ্ন : রামকৃষ্ণ মিশনের আদর্শ কি ?
উত্তর : নিজের মোক্ষলাভের নিমিত্ত জগতের হিতসাধন |

প্রশ্ন : নেতাজীর যথার্থ অনুগামী হতে গেলে কি করণীয় ?
উত্তর : অখণ্ড ব্রহ্মচর্য অবলম্বনপূর্বক চরিত্রগঠন |

প্রশ্ন : সুভাসচন্দ্র বোস কি পরিশেষে সন্ন্যাসী হয়ে গুপ্ত জীবন যাপন করেছিলেন ? এর যাথার্থ কতটা বলে আপনাদের বোধ হয় ?

প্রশ্ন : নেতাজী কি বিবাহিত ও কন্যার পিতা ছিলেন ?

প্রশ্ল : অন্তর্হিত নেতাজী যে সন্ন্যাসী ভগবানজী, এর অকাট্য প্রমাণ কি ?

প্রশ্ন : ভারতের দাসত্বশৃঙ্খলমোচনকল্পে ফ্যাসিবাদি জাপানী সাম্রায্যের সহায়তা নেওয়াকে কেন্দ্র করে শ্রীঅরবিন্দ নেতাজীর প্রতি দেশদ্রোহিতার ও মাতৃভূমির প্রতি অপরাধের যে অভিযোগ এনেছেন, এবিষয়ে আপনার অভিমত কি ?

প্রশ্ল : নেতাজী রাশিয়াতে ছিলেন এমন কোনো অকাট্য প্রমাণ পাওয়া গেছে কি ?

প্রশ্ন : নেতাজীর সাথে বেঙ্গল ভলান্টিয়ার্সের যোগ কি?

প্রশ্ন : মহানিষ্ক্রমণের আসল কাহিনী কি ?

প্রশ্ন : সুভাসচন্দ্রকে কেন রাসবিহারীর উত্তরসূরী বলা যেতে পারে ?

প্রশ্ন : মাস্টারদা সূর্য সেন ও তাঁর সশস্ত্র বিপ্লবের সাথে নেতাজীর প্রত্যক্ষ বা পরোক্ষ কোনো যোগ ছিল কি ?

প্রশ্ন: তাইহকু বিমান দুর্ঘটনায় নেতাজীর মৃত্যু কেন মিথ্যা?

প্রশ্ন : ২৩ জানুয়ারী, ১৪ এপ্রিল, ৬ জুলাই, ১৮ অগষ্ট, ২১ অক্টোবর ও ৩০ ডিসেম্বর --- এই দিনগুলির তাৎপর্য কি ?

প্রশ্ন : নেতাজীর যথার্থ অনুগামী হতে গেলে কি করণীয় ?
উত্তর : অখণ্ড ব্রহ্মচর্য অবলম্বনপূর্বক চরিত্রগঠন |

কেমনে বাঁধিব তায় ? ... ২

কেমনে বাঁধিব তায় ? ... ২

ঈশ্বর বিষয়বুদ্ধির গোচর নন যে তাঁকে কলুষিত, কামনালিপ্ত, অহংকৃত, বুদ্বুদসম, বাসনাসিক্ত বুদ্ধিসহায়ে বুঝে ফেলবেন | এ বিড়ম্বনা পরিত্যাপূর্বক শ্রদ্ধাবনতচিত্তে অখণ্ড ব্রহ্মচর্য অবলম্বন করে ঈশ্বরতত্ত্ব অনুধাবনকল্পে যত্নশীল হউন | নইলে বৃথা নরজন্মের যৌবন-প্রৌঢ়কালের আস্ফালন | পরিশেষে ঠকে যাবেন যখন, রামমোহনের ভাষায়, ' শেষের সেদিন বড়ই ভয়ঙ্কর ' শিয়রে এসে দাঁড়বে আর ' যখন সবাই কবে কথা, তুমি রবে নিরুত্তর |'

ক্রমশঃ

রচয়িতা : সুগত বোস (Sugata Bose)

কেমনে বাঁধিব তায় ? ... ১

কেমনে বাঁধিব তায় ? ... ১

ঠাকুর তো পিঞ্জরাবদ্ধ বিহঙ্গ নন যে তাঁর ওপর প্রতিষ্ঠানের মোহর লাগিয়ে তাঁকে বন্দি করে রাখব | তিনি আত্মাপক্ষী, মুক্তবিহঙ্গ, কোনো শৃঙ্খলে আবদ্ধ নন | তাঁর ইচ্ছায় যদি প্রতিষ্ঠান চলে তো মঙ্গল, নচেৎ, তাঁর পুনর্বার রূপপরিগ্রহের সময় আগত | বলেছিলেন, " শতবর্ষ ভক্তহৃদয়ে সূক্ষ্মদেহে থাকব | ... পার্ষদদের পূর্ণজ্ঞান দিলাম না | পূর্ণজ্ঞান দিলে তারা আবার আসবে কেন ? ... যারা অন্তরঙ্গ, তাদের মুক্তি হবে না | বায়ুকোণে আর একবার (আমার) দেহ হবে | "

ক্রমশঃ

রচয়িতা : সুগত বোস (Sugata Bose)

CALL FOR A COMBINED CONFERENCE

CALL FOR A COMBINED CONFERENCE

We need to make a concerted effort to counter these aspersions cast on the basis of dubious inference drawn from unrelated evidence of sorts. Hence, my appeal to all genuine researchers to come forward and respond to my call of holding a joint session soon, the way thus far I have conducted them on facebook live. Later, as a follow-up to such initial endeavour, a Press Conference may be called as well to highlight the whole issue and also to bring to the fore the other side of the thing that will reveal the truer picture and the fact, and not fanciful wild assertions founded in the corrosively creative mind's adherence to delusive dreams and deranged declarations. @ Drjayanta Choudhuri, Madhusudan Pal, Ashraful Islam, Keshab Bhattacherjee, Joy Deep, Shankar Kumar Chatterjee, Abhirup Sarkar,Tapan Bhattacharya, Bijoy Nag.

Written by Sugata Bose

BIJOY NAG --- SILENT, SELFLESS, SACRIFICIAL SOUL DEDICATED TO NETAJI

BIJOY NAG --- SILENT, SELFLESS, SACRIFICIAL SOUL DEDICATED TO NETAJI

The venerable Sri Bijoy Nag, editor of 'Jayasree' magazine, and one who has carried on a silent sacrificial lifelong labour of love for the lion-soul of India's freedom, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Incidentally, Sri Bijoy Nag belongs to the revolutionary lineage in some sense, being nephew to the redoubtable revolutionary Leela (Nag) Roy, whose legacy he carries forward till date in Jayasree. 

শ্রদ্ধেয় শ্রীযুক্ত বিজয় নাগ মহাশয় যিনি 'জয়শ্রী' পত্রিকার সম্পাদক ও যাঁর আজীবন নিঃশব্দ নিরলস ত্যাগপূত সেবাব্রত দেশনায়ক নেতাজী সুভাষচন্দ্রের চরণকমলে নিবেদিত | উল্লেখ্য, শ্রীযুক্ত বিজয় নাগ প্রাতঃস্মরণীয়া বিপ্লবী লীলা (নাগ) রায় এর ভ্রাতুস্পুত্র, যাঁর কর্মধারার অন্যতম ধারক ও বাহক তিনি জয়শ্রীর মাধ্যমে |

Written by Sugata Bose

Photo : courtesy, Bijoy Nag

POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER OF GUMNAMI BABA ALIAS BHAGAVANJI?

POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER OF GUMNAMI BABA ALIAS BHAGAVANJI?

There is a need for concerted effort on our part to rise in resistance to everything that commercialises the country's core concerns under the pretext of demystifying the disappearance of Netaji and bringing sanity to the discourse. Arbitrary claims and consequent commerce through the levelling of charges and casting calumny against the reclusive figure of Bhagavanji, who many believe was/is Netaji in the ascetic's garb, is reprehensible and needs repudiation in the severest terms if proven false.

That Netaji sells well is anybody's guess and this cashing in at somebody's expense must not be allowed to proliferate. Else, the respectability of activists will take a severe beating as seems to be the destiny of the current lot of self-styled activists claiming exclusive knowledge of Bhagavanji's unstable mental state post supposed torture during Soviet incarceration. That he was suffering from psychological imbalance on account of Post Trauma Stress Disorder (PTSD) which 'manifested in occasional false memories and delusions (paranoid and grandiose)' needs to be established by the book writers on the firm foundation of facts and not mere self-styled preferred inferences that lack rational rigour and cannot be deemed conclusive. It is up to the authors who claim such corrosive conclusions to prove that they are in the right. Should they fail, their credibility, already much corroded in many a corridor, will be lost for good and the Baba will stand vindicated thus in his absolute sanity and the recoil of karma will have had its fitting fruition.

I shall post further on this contentious issue as I get to study in depth --- provided there is depth to it --- the contents of this book and arrive at my own conclusions.

Written by Sugata Bose

LANGUAGE PREFERENCE IN LIVE VIDEO SHOW

LANGUAGE PREFERENCE IN LIVE VIDEO SHOW

Yes, but the problem is with the audience, varied and dispersed as they are and with preferred linguistic preferences born out of fundamental capacities and leanings thereof. But the sheen is lost if there is a transference of the lingua franca periodically for it disturbs the flow even as fresh mental adjustments are made to accommodate such verbal alterations. I find myself more at ease with the alien tongue which has been historically, and not unhappily anymore, been imposed on me by colonial conquest, for I can then keep under wraps volatile stuff given articulation to, by usage of English euphemism or other refinements and linguistic sophistication. Such capacity, though, is highly desirable in the vernacular as well but I fall veritably short on that. Hence, English would have been preferred by me but for audience preference deeming it otherwise.

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IN FIRST RESPONSE TO THE LABELLING OF BHAGAVANJI AS ONE SUFFERING FROM POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

IN FIRST RESPONSE TO THE LABELLING OF BHAGAVANJI AS ONE SUFFERING FROM POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

Suppose someone writes a book stating that Netaji was a monomaniac and did what he did whole life out of deep-seated megalomania. Then is it imperative to subscribe to such perfidious proposition in the first place by purchasing the said publication and, so, help the proliferation of such literature in the market which would seem to be the object of the whole marketing strategy? No, one does not have to read such stuff to refute certain fundamental facts for one may have already been privy to sufficient credible material to posit one's views to the contrary. At any rate, I propose to read through before I give my considered views about the book and its content, a fact that I have already stated in an earlier observation which you may have overlooked. As for calling something trash, it was not the book that I have anywhere stated as being so but the proffered idea that Bhagavanji was a victim of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) that has drawn my pertinent observation.

Anyhow, from the look of the statement about medieval monstrosity of book-burning that you have brought in --- and let me add here that you need not go thus far into history to cite such cases, for the Nazis committed similar cultural violence against literature they considered anti-German --- it seems that you have already been privy to the contents of the book in question and, in consequence, buy the PTSD affliction proposition, or, perhaps, you are merely arguing on grounds much traversed in past positing of logical principles. Whatever may have prompted you to thus give expression to your thoughts on my observation, I wholeheartedly welcome it as being part of the democratic discourse which is why I have ventured to give back this rather elaborate response, and I will get back to this discussion for sure in detailed analytical articulation when I have finished studying the book which ought to anyhow come my way.

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AUROBINDO AND NETAJI ... 4

AUROBINDO AND NETAJI ... 4

DISPENSATION OF THE DUAL DEVOTION

You are free to label me with all the epithets at your disposal for that is but the residual refrain of refracted devotion. When objective analysis fails to gain ground and opacity to reason gets the upper hand, as it happens in the case of verbally violent individuals issuing vitriolic personal comments as, my esteemed friend, you are indulging in, it becomes imperative for the recipient to refrain from sullying his response in equal terms and to further the course of the discourse with worthier opponents in more civilised debate than this one is being reduced to inevitably, courtesy your personal attacks.

This has been my response to Aurobindo's casting of most damaging aspersion of treason on the peerless patriot that Netaji was. It is hard to fathom how supposed equal devotion to Aurobindo and Netaji from one may fail to draw the ire of such when the former labels such epithets against the latter of unsullied patriotism. If anyone has betrayed the motherland to seek self-security and serene personal peacefulness at the cost of the country after having led scores of the freshest flowers of humanity to the gallows and to hideous hell in deportation, it certainly was the derelict to duty in the form of the leader who left the battlefield and not the 'Prince of Patriots' who led from the front right till the very end. So, if any question mark is to be raised about commitment to the nation, it certainly points in the direction of the caustic critic in secure self-isolation in French terrain rather than in the direction of the one being who could manfully rise to attempt driving the British out of the subcontinent.

Devotion to Netaji is not a mere verbal affair but requires a stronger character current among such declared devotees when their hero is nastily hit below the belt by one who could scant care for the ones who he had condemned to death and despair in dreaded deportation through his sudden discovery of deluded divinity. Such unprincipled following having not the courage of conviction to stand by their unduly castigated leader of unblemished patriotism is unworthy of being considered as due devotion for it stands shorn of the essential self-respect that characterises the true devotee. If criticism made of Netaji by Aurobindo had been on the basis of mere principles and not personal condemnation of the most damaging order, it would have been welcome for it would have added historical perspective to the said discourse. As it turned out, though, the statement made was far from civil and most unbecoming of a supposed seer. Hence, the rebuttal offered by this insignificant writer in a bid to undo the damage thus done to the patriot perennial. This is devotion when men rise to the occasion to defend the brightest and the best when under hideous attack from homeland where support ought to have been.

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AUROBINDO AND NETAJI --- REFUTATION OF COMMENTS AND CRITICISMS

AUROBINDO AND NETAJI ... 3

REFUTATION OF COMMENTS AND CRITICISMS

So it seems, dear adversarial friend, as blind devotees of Aurobindo are culpable to the same offence and cannot brook any criticism levelled justifiably against their god for his having earlier cast terrible aspersions on Netaji. As for dear venerable one's comment, I await his constructive criticisms of Netaji based on facts to dispel his illusions about the direction of this page. I desist from levelling charges against a good friend and continue to seek your active participation in this group that has not quite lost its balance in over-adulation of any.
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My dear Sir, casting such damaging aspersion on Netaji as Aurobindo has done in reference to his alleged treasonous and criminal alliance with the Japanese against the motherland may not be construed as mere critical reference and needs severest condemnation even as we heed the content of the calumny cast for historical comprehension. The group certainly has many blind devotees of Netaji who throw caution to the winds while referring to Netaji and comment corrosively and unseasonably on some other freedom fighters but the same charge may not be levelled against this writer as you may inadvertently have implied in your reference if I have not read you wrong. I exhort you to gather critical data against Netaji, if you so please or have the occasion to do so, and present them as posts here and they will be approved by me if they are factual, well-articulated and civil. If vicious criticisms arise, I shall be by your side to give you allowance to defend your case.
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Who ever said so, my venerable friend? Is it rational to arrive at such a stupendous inference from my earlier observation as you have done? As for his contribution, Aurobindo's career graph as a failed revolutionary needs to be critically examined and then alone ought he to be accorded his rightful place in the history of the freedom movement. His legacy of political thought and robust articulation is not by any means being negated for even today they thrill us to the bones and inspire us with the high ideals of nationalism and freedom in much the same way as the Swami Vivekananda inspires us even today. But this glorious period of bold expression of the principles and programmes of freedom notwithstanding, Aurobindo's cowardly act of relinquishing revolution when he had already implicated a host of young men in it which cost them life and blood at the gallows and in devilish deportation, does not paint him in a good light and, historically speaking, taints his reputation as a revolutionary and a patriot for good, the very evil fate from which Krishna rescued Arjuna when in a somewhat similar predicament. So, while devotes galore may swallow the fiction of divine intervention of his revolutionary life while awaiting trial in prison, it will be historically untenable to posit such unverifiable evidence by way of seeking redemption from revolution. This was dereliction of divine duty as opposed to observing it as the leader said in self-defence in the Uttarpara Address. So, these are epic events in the motherland's history that need ruminating and not covering up with fragrant flowers of pretentious piety, for, as Swamiji famously said, the flowers rot and the festering corpse rots, too. Let us, therefore, not study the lives of 'these choice and master spirits of the Age' through the prism of personal predilections or pious prescriptions emanating from the heavens and appearing in cellular confines but let us be objective and historically sound in our derivations and understanding thereof.
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But, my illumined friend, Sri Aurobindo supposedly was a seer and ought to, by his self-professed claims to super-divine standards whereby he was in the process of altering terrestrial human consciousness altogether, have known better. If he did not, which it seems to have been the case, then his and the Mother's semblance of omniscience as God-incarnate will be deemed rather suspect and the tall claims to yogic insights and attainments will crash to a precipitous fall. When the Mother met Abid Hassan and heard his spirited defence of his leader, her extreme views about Netaji were moderated and she along with her master adopted a softer, although, the same principled line in policy, towards Netaji. This sort of experiential ever-adjusting perspective about personalities while being suggestive of human pliability, is certainly indicative as well of flawed judgement, the incapacity to see through to the inner nature of man and the paucity in the perceptive faculties whereby yogis with unerring insight can read into the seeds of time, space and causality, a sine qua non at any rate for anyone seeking to masterfully alter the course of human destiny through the working of the truth consciousness (hreet chetana). Such human fallibility, while being very much acceptable in rational terms, is rather incongruous in the self-defined divine setting to which the Mother had placed the Master (Sri Aurobindo) and the Master the Mother. So, it is a curious medley of misguided metaphysics that seems to have stolen the show and sunk the ship of the supposed spiritual duo midstream.
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Written by Sugata Bose