LET NOT PRETENTIOUS MODERATORS SULLY THE SANCITIFIED ATMOSPHERE OF SWAMIJI'S BIRTH ANNIVERSARY MUSICAL PROGRAMMES ON 12 JANUARY EVERY YEAR AT THE RAMAKRISHNA MISSION INSTITUTE OF CULTURE

LET NOT PRETENTIOUS MODERATORS SULLY THE SANCITIFIED ATMOSPHERE OF SWAMIJI'S BIRTH ANNIVERSARY MUSICAL PROGRAMMES ON 12 JANUARY EVERY YEAR AT THE RAMAKRISHNA MISSION INSTITUTE OF CULTURE

The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture conducts annual programmes on Hindustani Classical Music on Swami Vivekananda's birthday, 12 January. But the moderators they employ for the purpose are thoroughly pretentious in the way they speak with their standard affected tone and mock-poetic manners.

Why does the Mission allow these moderators to make a mockery of a classical programme with their standard gibberish each time? It does not befit the Ramakrishna Mission to engage these superficial articulates to make their improper appraisal of artistes in such pretentious manner at the time of introducing them before the programme and by way of final flourish at the end of their performance. A programme conducted at the Ramakrishna Mission ought to be free of Avidya Maya. Unfortunately, it is not so as these moderators with their affected tone and mock mannerisms spoil the show to some extent and bring the touch of detestable Avidya Maya to the programme which the venerable monks of the Order ought to object to and take care that such degenerate deliveries are not made from the microphone of the Mission.

I rest my case here hoping that some monk may read this criticism of mine and take the necessary steps to see to it that the Mission's musical programmes are devoid of despicable Maya and that pure music in all its pristine flow alone sanctifies the abode of Thakur-Ma-Swamiji.

Jai Ramakrishna !

Written by Sugata Bose