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.
Written by Sugata Bose
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.
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