FACEBOOK COMMENTS FROM DIFFERENT PROFILES ... 19

FACEBOOK COMMENTS FROM DIFFERENT PROFILES ... 19

Sugata Bose @Partha Pratim Daxx Vp : That is the Pandora's Paradox. You see the failure of the communists to seize political power in India along revolutionary or electoral channels does not exclude the possibility of leftists dominating the intellectual circles in India. From Nehru to Netaji, from Satyajit Ray to Ritwik Ghatak, from Hiren Mukerjee to Prannoy Roy, all were/are leftists. The universities in India have a dominant section of the creme de la creme of the faculty who are pronouncedly leftist in thinking and ideological inclination. And this is so because they are progressive, humanitarian in philosophical persuasion and pronouncedly people-oriented. Hence, you see, this is the ground reality whether you like it or not.

SugataBose @Somnath Bandyoapdhayay : I shall rest only when I attain videha mukti. Then it shall be an eternal rest. Nonetheless, thanks for your concern and consideration. 

Sugata Bose @Sachin Ketkar : Mother Teresa did give her reason for taking donations from men of questionable bearings, stating that she was in no position to judge an individual as God is the sole and supreme judge. She said that it was not given to her to deny any the joy of giving. Whatever the source of money was, it was not possible for her to ascertain such details and act in accordance and she could not in any case deprive the giver the occasion to serve God's children in the poorest of the poor through such donations. As to the allegation of her converting masses of people to Catholicism,  it us an unsubstantiated charge and bears no credibility in terms of concrete fact.

Sugata Bose @Ashok Kotha : Right and wrong are also relative perceptions in the phenomenal realm. In Brahman there is no movement. Hence, causality ceases there and with it the notions of relative right and wrong. Duality allows dynamic flow, undulating and altering in dimension. Hence, the perception of right and wrong arises. But when the non-dual plane of the Brahman is reached, it is a changeless superconscious perfection where error simply disappears.

Sugata Bose @Aloke Mukherjee : You sure have a strong point for it is just my perception without evidentiary proof based on either statistical sampling or actual count. This idea strikes me often when I see that leftists are quite well-versed in what they discuss whereas rightists so often speak gibberish. But this is mere superficial notion and not foolproof awareness based on real study or even taking into consideration all the elements, the different strands of intellectual endeavour in the country.

Sugata Bose @Amitabha Dutta Majumdar : Communism in its thus far manifested historical apparel has for sure floundered in the final analysis despite making phenomenal contributions to human development but leftist or socialist movements across the world have surely not gone into oblivion with it. They are as yet vibrant albeit stymied by the preponderance of crony capitalism which, though, gives them sustenance in seed whence under propitious circumstances they may well spring into life and action in aid of the teeming millions that suffer the rigours of appalling iniquities of coarse capitalism.

Sugata Bose @Aloke Mukherjee : I have stated what I sincerely see to be true for present day India. Hence, I see no reason why I should withhold my keypad from printing what I find to be true. This world is from the Vedantic standpoint only an appearance and essentially unreal. But do you thereby abide by such scriptural stricture and refrain from affirming your phenomenal status as real to your associates in common communication simply to validate the scriptural mandate which for sure has experiential authentication of the seers of transcendental truth? Hence, there is no need to attempt to curb my expression when we are all every moment giving the lie to our real existence and affirming the unreal as real. Now, as to the content of the post, I was only being accommodating enough to appreciate your standpoint as well and, so, gave my reply but it seems to have misfired and carried conversation to extreme injunction now being levied on me by means of polite request which, nonetheless, infringes unduly on my freedom of expression, for I see no reason how my post may have been socially damaging or disparaging to any effect.

Sugata Bose @Souvick Mukherjee : No, I really mean that the leftist intellectuals may be more often than not materialistic but they are erudite to a degree for sure as opposed to rightist ill-informed and illogical pedantic practitioners of the professorial art who keep on speaking gibberish to the glee of the gullible multitude.

Sugata Bose @Sameer Banik : Right. Strength is dissipated in taking recourse to undue hatred which we can ill-afford if we are to survive as a civilisation. Rather we should adopt affirmative measures to advance our civilisational cause, the spiritualisation of the whole world. And we must definitely look deep into history to discover where we had gone wrong that so debilitated us to be reduced to slavery for well over a thousand years.

Sugata Bose @Poonam Mis : Aha ! You called me a fool and then cut the comment? That was a piece of cowardice indeed, or was it a late realisation that I do not deserve such an epithet? Now, quit this pretentious identity of your profile and reveal your true face, dear wisdom personified ! As far as boring people is concerned, well, that is my exact intention, to bore my ideas way within these dense heads that spew rightist venom thus. Has it gone in?

Sugata Bose @Poonam Mis : The Atman is never confused, it being the seat of all knowledge, for it is absolute consciousness.

Sugata Bose @Poonam Mis : They (Romilla Thapar and Prannoy Roy) are definitely intellectual in their thinking and have academic credentials and life's attainments to testify to that effect.

Sugata Bose @Poonam Mis : Send the doctor, diet and doses (read : medicine).

Sugata Bose @Sanjoy Goswami : Individual discernment and insight, personal perception based on collective civilisational conditioning, academic training of the discerner, and the coherence of thinking of the said intellectuals which impact and induce such judgement.

Sugata Bose @Subhrojyoti Nasker : Can you not read the content of what Swamiji says about the dire necessity of bread which socialism guarantees as opposed to the consumerist avarice which capitalism feeds on and feeds into society where the poor are crushed under the wheels of machinery that runs to fuel the iniquities that abound thereby?

Sugata Bose @Anindya Roy : This time I thought that Nivedita should be included. Earlier I have never included her in such a list. So the slots ran out.

Sugata Bose @Elora Biswas : I did not include her because I wished to draw up only those members here who were completely identified with the Indian ethos which arguably Mother Teresa with her Catholic allegiance was not. Hence. However, you can always contradict my stance by stating that her universal approach to serving God in living humanity transcended such definitive boundaries and that the list by exclusion of her person has itself suffered a diminution in spiritual stature and status in truth. Difficult to exclude any from this list to include Mother. So, I guess, like Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, Mother Teresa will also have to bless the list from their station above it as, true to character, they will unhesitatingly doubtlessly do.

Sugata Bose @Partha Pratim Adhikary : Make your own list and submit. Then you will find out the difficulty of accommodating so many seminal greats within such a short list of ten.

Sugata Bose @Partha Pratim Adhikary : Why did you remove your comment? With it my response got removed too.

Sugata Bose @সুদীপ্ত চক্রবর্তী : That changes the format altogether, loosening the compactness of the traditional ten.

Sugata Bose @Partha Pratim Adhikary : What can be done when there are so many who have contributed to the resurgence of India? If Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, then the question will immediately arise as to why not C.V. Raman or Satyendranath Bose or Srinivasa Ramanujan or Meghnad Saha. Hence.

Sugata Bose @Partha Pratim Adhikary : No, no, you sure have a point. But this list includes those only whose lives were a mass of burning love for the country and the people, not in terms of excellence in this or that discipline of human endeavour as such.

Sugata Bose @সৌরভ মণ্ডল : But Mahatma Gandhi's impact on India was incredible, phenomenal, almost unseen since the days of the Buddha, according to Swami Lokeshwarananda, who himself was a member of the revolutionary society, the Anushilan Samity. At his bidding the masses moved as if held by the sorcerer's charm but really by the power of his personality. He was a mass leader not by design or clever manipulation but by his utter identification with the life of his people. Such stalwarts as Netaji, Nehru, Patel and a galaxy of other seminar leaders followed him with such reverence for his person even when they differed with him on ideological grounds or in matters of policy decisions. The world had not seen truly such a one in ages and, perhaps, will have to wait ages more to witness a like phenomenon again.

Sugata Bose @Tapan Bhattacharya : Can you prove it with credible evidence that Gandhiji was indeed a British implant into the Indian freedom movement with the expresss aim of suppressing its armed revolutionary action ?

Sugata Bose @Rítãm Màitrà : I personally believe Gandhiji, with all his political and ideological shortcomings, was one of the most extraordinary human beings in world history, a veritable phenomenon, to have trod this planet earth.

Sugata Bose @Julie Binder Maitra : Right. He (Swami Pranavananda) was a towering soul, a veritable lion of a man in the mould of Swami Vivekananda who exhorted the Hindus to unite and stand strong against the impending calamity that he had foreseen would befall them before long unless they unified their wills in resistance. To this effect, for the resuscitation of his motherland, he set afoot a band of monatics who formed the body politic of the Bharat Sevashram Sangha, quite an inspirational order of monks who zealously carry on their multifarious works of service throughout the country and in some countries abroad, and so fulfil the mission of their Master Swami Pranavananda. The words of this modern sage are power-packed, thunderous calls that quicken life in the dead and waken slumbering souls into life and action to alter the otherwise tragic terrestrial fate fraught with the miseries of earthly life.

Sugata Bose @Brenda Arnold Mattox : Yes, they (Ramakrishna and Vivekananda) were Bengalis but Bengalis are Indians as well. In fact in this list eight out of the ten listed, barring Mahatma Gandhi and Sister Nivedita, were Bengalis. And Sister Nivedita operated from Kolkata (then Calcutta) which was the capital of the Bengal Presidency and of the whole of British India.

Sugata Bose @Ashok Kotha : But in stating this you are being terribly judgemental. What you deem to be best you ought to yourself follow. So, pointless stating it here. And sure there is the best pursuit of seeking to know the Self, what in common parlance is called God-realisation. But such endeavours are not be blazoned in public. There is a growing intolerance among men these days about what they deem others ought to be doing or not doing and, although it is an inevitable cultural downflow amidst its general decadence, it is regrettable nonetheless. Freedom of expression ought to be respected and since you perchance cannot bear to behold it in others, I have eased you off into affable oblivion.

Sugata Bose @Ashok Kotha : What is your problem? Are you seeking attention from me? And why are so bothered about what I do? Is it not better to oil your own machine and leave me to do mine?

Sugata Bose @Rudradeb Sanyal : No, you are quite right about the utopian nature of Marx's final assumption about the endpoint in communist statelessness when everything in the socioeconomic order will be in order and the exploitative character of man will have been replaced by theoretical understanding and societal evolution. That is a far cry in Marxian theory though but not distinct much from the religious ideal of Satya Yuga in some respects. Moreover, I am not a communist or a communist sympathizer in any way, theistic that I am where communism is atheistic, spiritualistic that I am where communism is materialistic. Hence, I read into it, just as you perhaps do as well, from academic and social interest and not from any personal affiliation as such.

Sugata Bose @Mithushree G Mukherjee : Right from class 1. Bit by bit let the children get acclimatized to its resonant vibrations. Grammar can be introduced slowly from class 5. Let the epics be taught in higher classes and the great dramas of Kalidas, Banabhatta and the like.

Sugata Bose @Subrata Ray : Where have I compared? Does the post imply comparison or does it point to chronological greatness?

Sugata Bose @Sipra Banerji : Where has the comparison been made? Does the post imply comparison or does it merely refer to chronological greatness?

Sugata Bose @ Goutam Biswas : Well said but both in essence converged onto the same service, the same veneration of God in man, one beholding Shiva in jiva and the other Christ in the suffering poorest of the poor.

Sugata Bose @Goutam Biswas : Cannot agree that she converted en masse or served any only after converting but sure enough she was inspired by her Catholic faith even unto voluntary individual conversion to her faith, never by compulsion or inducement though.

Sugata Bose @Subrata Ray : I am astounded that the simple English in which the post has been written has after repeated reading -- at least I suppose so -- remained thus incomprehensible that it can entail such misinterpretation. Indeed, suspense stories seem suspended everywhere these days when life itself lies in suspension for most of us.

Sugata Bose @Swami Sunirmalananda : You should be ashamed of yourself that as follower of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda you instigate others to ignore people who they themselves may not like to do so. This is most unbecoming of a monastic member of such an esteemed organization as the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. Your posts however reveal your hateful mind masqueraded though they are as love of Hindus and their persecuted lot. Reform your ways before the double clutches of Maya envelope you. Time indeed it is that you should do so and no more bring the Ramakrishna Mission to shame with your abrasive acts. As a monk of the Ramakrishna Order you should be guiding people towards enlightenment after realizing it yourself instead of instigating them unto undue intolerance tantamount to nothing substantial by way of improvement of the lot of the Hindus and the proper defence of the Sanatan Dharma. Amend your ways. That would be renunciation indeed for one who has nominally done so at the point of formal negation of worldly life upon entering the vast void of absolute consciousness termed 'sannyas'.

Sugata Bose @ দ্যুতিমান বিশ্বাস : I have posted after a lifelong of self-inquiry. Therefore, further self-questioning is unnecessary. I have met Mother Teresa multiple times and closely interacted with her and her Order. Did you have a like occasion or opportunity to do so? Have you read any definitive biography of Mother or even that of Swami Vivekananda?

Sugata Bose @দ্যুতিমান বিশ্বাস : You must understand that Thakur-Ma are God incarnate on earth and their blessings extend to all and so much more so to Mother Teresa who was a phenomenal nun in the great tradition of Catholic renunciation about which Swamiji himself has unequivocally spoken of. As far as respect is concerned, I deserve none from any more than what Thakur-Ma-Swamiji have already given me and continue to shower on me each day out of their boundless bounty. So, if your respectfulness is so circumstantial or conditional, you may with pleasure withdraw it and for that I shall bear you neither ill-will nor harbour any rancour towards you. God bless you in your advance towards the Truth that lies hidden at the core of your spiritual being !

Sugata Bose @Vikram Chug : Yes, smart indeed to combat corruption masquerading these days as spiritual renaissance of sorts. It is decadent revivalism and not religious regeneration that is the order or the day today in this blessed motherland of ours and that needs the adoption of corrective measures.

Sugata Bose @Vikram Chug : By the way it's been years I have heard from you since those early years of mine on Facebook when you were one of the earliest to frequent my posts, on my page, though, and not on my profile. How have you been and how are you?

Sugata Bose @DrSanghamitra Chakrabarti : Nivedita for sure was and is the blessed daughter of Thakur-Ma-Swamiji but can Mother Teresa be excluded from their grace even if she on account of exclusive religious persuasion could not live upto their ideals completely. But Thakur being Christ and Ma being Mother Mary -- by experiential assertion of both Swamiji and Nivedita -- can it be gainsaid that Mother Teresa was not therefore by inference at least their blessed child? Who can do such mighty deeds of mercy which were literally poems of compassion but the one who has the commission of God, and what were Thakur-Ma but the Divine incarnates whose blessings for sure must have been showered on Mother Teresa who carried into practice Thakur's formulation of 'Shivjnaney jeevseva' as 'Service to suffering Christ in the living form of the poorest of the poor'?

Sugata Bose @Hitendra Mehta : Surprising analysis that needs no commenting further on beyond stating that in Facebook posts one does not write treatises to clarify clouded conceptions of all and sundry. Your response has highlighted the intellectually impoverished state of the polity in general.

Sugata Bose @Hitendra Mehta : What are you talking about? All preconceptions, prejudices and pettiness pouring out profusely with pertinent perversity. I honour you as Brahman which you fail to understand. Hence, your self-defamation and laying the blame for it on me.

Sugata Bose @ Hitendra Mehta : Please receive my respects at least for all your uncharitable remarks about me for they come from a brother with good intentions impelling them. One day you will realise the validity of what I have stated thus far.

Sugata Bose @Hitendra Mehta : No, no, I am amused at you preposterous ignorance and consequent innocence in appreciation of the current of such a simple post as mine. Anyhow, brood on it more in the days to come and this cloud will clear. A person who deems respect as disrespect can but be pitied and left alone, and so shall I do with you now. God bless you and stay safe !

Sugata Bose @Partha Pratim Adhikary : Study Swamiji thoroughly if you wish to redress this. Mere online protest in the absence of proper preparation for such will be of no avail.

Sugata Bose @Sipra Banerji : Have I called you so? That was addressed to Swami Sunirmalananda who instigated you by implication to ignore me without actually naming me.

Sugata Bose @Sipra Banerji : Do you not understand basic English that you do not follow the chronological content of the post which has no comparison intended in it anyway?

Sugata Bose @Susan Baker : Perverse people with no sense whatsoever as to what a post is intended to convey even when explicitly stated in clear, concise and uncomplicated terms.

Sugata Bose @Surajit Ghosh : Mother Teresa was the living exemplar of most of Sri Ramakrishna's spiritual principles, from 'Shivjnane jeevseva' (service to sentient beings in the spirit of service to God) to 'Kaamkanchan tyag' (renunciation of lust and gold). Her consecrated life to Christ was a consecration unto Thakur-Ma in essence, whatever be its external form. Her superhuman austere living, her universal love despite her conditioned Catholic limitations which she largely transcended, and her limitless pity for the poorest of the poor where she became the conduit of God's love for them, all were vibrant illustrations that she had indeed been the blessed daughter of Thakur-Ma. Words count for little, deeds do.

Sugata Bose @Sharmistha Chatterjee : This patient perseverance at assimilation of the best in life from all quarters is the key to growth which is the special genius of the Hindu race for which it has been able to successfully tide over countless civilisational aggressions against it during its protracted evolutionary march through millenia. Unfortunately, the Partition of India, the historical mishandling of the Kashmir problem and the subsequent political perfidies that have allowed mischievous proselytising by the Semitic religions, Islam and Christianity, and the persecution of Hindus en masse in places such the Kashmir Valley, Pakistan and Bangladesh have left a bitter taste in the palate of the Hindus which, now aided by political activity on behalf of it, has made Hindus largely less tolerant and more wildly abusive in the air against those of these orders of Abrahamic religious persuasion. Education and enlightenment will reduce this crass culture but in changing demography where Hindus feel threatened by growing Islamism and corrosive Church activity, and amidst the general decadence that must necessarily accompany such demographic lower order boom, plummeting culture is the natural consequence and assimilation as before a receding reality. Here we have work at hand to which I exhort you and kindred souls to join in and bring about the much-needed healthy transformation of humanity here and elsewhere in general.

Sugata Bose @Tapan Mukherjee : Thank you for your kind appreciation. It is ever an inspiration to be lauded thus which adds fillip to my creative endeavours. Thank you once again for you are elderly and transparently sincere in your articulate sympathy for my writing which is a rare commodity these days here on Facebook where the discerning reader is rare and an expansive heart that can ardently appreciate rarer still.

Sugata Bose @DrMrityunjoy Mahato : Why? Socialists can't innovate?

Sugata Bose @Rudradeb Sanyal : Growing suffering will increase awareness and the reverse current of discontent will set in to do so. 'Necessity is the mother of invention', so the saying goes, and alternative leadership and a truly nationalistic party with positive reformist programmes as opposed to a pretentious one with divisive regressive propaganda will be thrown up by the same Indian polity that has catapulted Modi to power, a seat which he hardly deserves anymore and has now become by the Peter Principle his undoing. Do not worry, the change will come and will be for good as a saner generation restores the country to health, and democracy in distinctive delight, as opposed to divisive, diabolical plight, dances again to usher in light, love, happiness, peace and prosperity where the poor are no more offered as human oblation to the sacrificial fire of crony capitalism.

Sugata Bose @Bhaskar Bhowmick : Visionary leader, towering titan of the political realm. (Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru)

Sugata Bose @Rítãm Màitrà But that does not detract from the fact that the present economic order in the world is inexcusably exploitative and needs reform, if not a revolutionary replacement altogether immediately. We ought not to be apologists for crony capitalism.

Sugata Bose @Rítãm Màitrà : You and I and we unless, of course, we ourselves are the cat. Then others will do the restraining act.

Sugata Bose @Rítãm Màitrà: Yes, change always takes place in the future for the problems crop up in the present and redressing them inevitably and necessarily takes time, all events, being as they are, phased out in time when circumstances eventually become propitious for such adjustment, amendment or revolutionary, sweeping alteration.

Sugata Bose @Soumitra Sankar Roychowdhury : It is more or less a constitutional compulsion in the average humanity to repose such faith in a supposedly omnipotent elder brother who shall save us in sinking situations, given the treacherous turbulence life throws up invariably in the shape of sorrow and suffering,  disease and death. But belief and its sibling of an assumption of peace is one and genuine conviction born out of spiritual realisation another which can tide over a tsunami of trouble, unshaken, unmoved, for in this latter psychological state there is the foundation of the Self to hold one whose absence in perception makes the earlier assumed peace vulnerable and susceptible to the further modification of a frustrated faith and a cynical outlook on matters religious thereafter. Hence, realisation has been deemed the key and cornerstone of the dharma in our ancient spiritual tradition.

Sugata Bose @Surajit Ghosh : Somewhat, if you take recent events and convictions into consideration. But you know me well enough to not require a reminder that I have never been into politics ever in my life and have never been partisan in any way in anything, preferring always to hold on to truth and side with the cause of the ultimate spiritual truth of life and existence as exemplified and lived by the divine duo, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda. But the suffering fate of the country in the hands of rogues at the helm of affairs everywhere had induced me to take for the first time some sort of an active interest in the electoral politics of our state with consequent terrible disillusionment with the callousness and cruelty in indifference towards the health hazard that related mass rallies and road shows entailed. Moreover, the mischievous untruthfulness of politicians across the spectrum during the recently concluded state elections have completely broken my confidence in any party or politician worth the call. Hence, my present pronouncement and my explicit stand regarding them.

Sugata Bose @Riya Bhattacharya : Yes, indeed. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was, along with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the young Turk of India's independence movement, its most progressive face at a time when the nation was in bud with ideologies struggling for a foothold in the emerging nation's polity. The twain worked for long in unison and were in close conference on issues pertinent to the politics of the day. The Planning Committee of 1938, whose idea and execution was Bose's, was headed by Nehru at Bose's request. Occasional differences notwithstanding, they carried ahead the progressive agenda of the Congress in tandem till matters came to a head post Tripuri. Nehru's non-commital betrayal of Bose's trust by his ditching him to gain Gandhiji's favour created a rift that even the highly civil and selfless Bose could not bridge, although, on paper he continued to be on affable terms with Panditji to the extent that he even named a brigade of his Indian National Army the 'Nehru Brigade'. When Netaji fatefully disappeared after 17 August, 1945 -- the day he was last photographed --, the mantle of governance by quirk of fate fell on Nehru. Those were turbulent, treacherous times and the country, freshly dismembered and devastated by civil war, was in ruins even before it had gathered its act together to set forth its first steps. Sardar Patel stood the strong man amidst this raging typhoon and integrated India but, alas, he was to pass away in 1950 when India needed him the most. Gandhiji had been assassinated in 1948, Netaji had disappeared in 1945, Rash Behari Bose was dead in 1945 and now Patel passed away in 1950. Detractors of Nehru quote these as being fortuitous which allowed Nehru preeminence and predominance in the polity. Whatever it be, Nehru now had to almost singlehandedly steer India through the early phase of India's freedom to secure democracy which was highly threatened in those initial years. A section of British politics had predicted the quick breakdown of the Indian federation but Nehru's stewardship averted such a precipitous fate for the emerging nation which went ahead from strength to strength on the firm foundation of sterling democratic institutions which Nehru built. His vision guided India through those dark days of diabolic devastation and placed India on a pedestal of which we should be proud of. There were colossal mistakes which Pandit Nehru made on account of his gentle nature and the complexity of the problems which required deft handling instead of brutish delivery. The consequence was Partition to begin with, Tibet, Kashmir and China. His mishandling of the first Indo-Pak War over Kashmir and the untimely calling of the ceasefire followed by UN involvement, his handing of undue Constitutional advantages to Kashmir arbitrarily which precipitated so much subsequent turmoil in the Valley till they began to envisage themselves as separate from the Indian Union, his quiet acceptance of China's sovereignty over Tibet, his indifference to Chinese occupation of Aksai Chin, his allowing Pakistan to occupy Balochistan and his monumental mishandling of the Northeast which led to India's humiliation in the Chinese aggression of 1962 and loss of territory in the Arunachal, all these do paint him as a leader of sublime flights of statesmanship in the global sphere and abysmal failure nearer to home in India's neighbourhood. The Non-aligned Movement which he co-founded, the general tenor of his foreign policy, enlightened, albeit internationally oriented instead of towards narrow nationalism, these were the luminous landmarks of Nehru's reign at a time when the Cold War was tearing the world apart through its secluded icy chill. You see, today undue emphasis is being laid on Nehru's failures just as undue glorification was made of his achievements earlier by successive Congress Governments at the Centre. What is now needed is a balanced assessment of Nehru's reign devoid of partisan outlook and prejudiced view thereof. So, get going to unravelling the truth by intense reading of the history of modern India.

Sugata Bose @Debjit Biswas : Spirituality and not regressive religion as is the order of the day thanks to political programming.

Sugata Bose @Sumit Mukerji : Please share these articles on Facebook if it is possible so that many may know many unknown facets of his life and that of his forefathers.

Sugata Bose @Sumit Mukerji : Serialise it if you can. I am eager to read. I knew Prof. Hiren Mukerjee personally.

Sugata Bose @Diganta Sengupta : The name 'Marine Drive' was appropriate and the change just the reverse for it is not indicative of the location or historically of any pertinence, I guess, in this regard. Naming for naming's sake is pointless for everything must bear some significance in terms of historical or geographical reference. The only objection, if any, one might have had to the thus far existent name could have been its Anglicised phonetic flavour, but then India, courtesy colonial consequence, has her disproportionately large share of colonial heritage to disown elsewhere in that case as well. These are cosmetic changes tantamount to nothing substantial and will, despite such renewed reference in terms of name, produce hardly a ripple in public memory about the great hero of India's independence which can only be substantially effected through inclusion of his heroic deeds in school curriculum when the child mind is most impressionable. May the powers at the helm of affairs effect such necessary and consequential changes !

Sugata Bose @Kalyan Ghosh : আপনি কী অসাধারণ কাজ করছেন !

Sugata Bose @Bhaskar Sen Sharma :  Wrong assessment as I quite often, everyday in fact, keep giving 'like/love' signs to those posts of my Facebook friends which come my way and which I like or find pertinent to social well-being and spiritual evolution, and I am one of those who shares posts of others the most, often to the tune of 40 plus 'shares' of a single post for my more than 90 groups and near 90 pages. I never ask anyone to do so for mine and do feel writing on Facebook so copiously a waste of time and effort sometimes when I see that so few read them, preferring to give a 'like' to the appended photograph instead or simply giving them the go-by. However, my writing is my spontaneous reaction to what I see all around and I do not think anybody owes me a fig that they should 'like' or comment on my posts. One more thing. I am  a social commentator and do Facebook only for the specific cause of serving society. I do not project myself or my family or have any self-serving to act either as fillip for my posts or as inspiration motivating them. I also have my joys and sorrows but keep them to myself as far as possible. I do not see any reason why I should publicise my mother or father or family as I see going on all around, remembering ever that privacy is privacy and publicity publicity and 'never the twain shall meet' in my life so long as I remain essentially myself. I do not post 'stories' publishing my dressed-up visage for others to appreciate/admire for I seldom see myself in the mirror to even reckon that others deserve to do so at my bidding. Hence, there is a misconception here about me and I hope I have been able to duly clarify my mind and my stand thereof. And by way of bringing back a near-forgotten fact finally. I have written on you 15 small but lyrical essays by way of appreciation of your commendable literary skills which are all on my personal page and have also composed several essays on your departed daughter with sincerely felt emotions sweeping my frame as I wrote them in saddest memory of one who I have but met in imagination alone with her bereaved father standing aside bathed in tears. I wonder if anyone else on Facebook has done likewise. If they have, my heartiest commendations to them. If they have not, I deem it to have been my privilege to have done so and so set the door ajar for them to follow if they so choose. But only if they so choose of their own will and volition, for an enforced comment or 'like/love' is that much shorn of truth as forced love is shorn of sublimity of emotion itself. May God bless you and yours, my noble friend !

Sugata Bose @Parnika Bubna : Time to initiate another thought-provoking debate. If breathing were so intermittent as posts and comments here are, life would have been extinct as this group's (THAKUR-MA-SWAMIJI-GURUDEV) destiny seems to be.

Sugata Bose @Sharmistha Chatterjee : Only learning will not do. Contributing original thinking as well is the dire necessity in this group (THAKUR-MA-SWAMIJI-GURUDEV) to keep it from breathing its final few breaths.

Sugata Bose @Diganta Sengupta : Economist has legitimately economised his trips and made the correct use of the privilege afforded the Bharat Ratnas by the Government of India.

Sugata Bose @Sanjoy Goswami : You are right. But that is the way rightist fascists have been dubbed in history -- ultranationalists. And did they not vouch themselves to be so?

Sugata Bose @Anindya Roy : Definitely, relative to the unscrupulous politics practised by the major world leaders like Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Churchill, Franco, Mao and the whole bandwagon. Gandhi was way more principled than the lot of them who knew only realopolitik to guide them and help them achieve their often too dubious political goals that subjected nations and races to inhuman tyranny.

Sugata Bose @Anindya Roy : These are extraneous issues that do not pertain to the post.

Sugata Bose @Anindya Roy : You are missing the basic point of the post and are dragging in stuff that are extraneous to it.

Sugata Bose @Anindya Roy: Why should you bother about what I think? Read up history and find out for yourself the truth about whatever matter you wish to. My opinion should not be of any moment to you. I am not being adamant, just being pertinent as any focused person ought to be during an intellectual discourse. There is something called post pertinence which I am abiding by. This matter has been well discussed elsewhere and may be so again when the occasion arises but certainly not now on grounds of intellectual propriety. I hope you understand that.

Sugata Bose @Sharmistha Chatterjee : When one has merged in the One, that is, the one has disappeared and with it the many, and the One stands serene in Self-revelation, the Witness to its own Self, the sensory perceptions have vanished too and the attributeless, integrated Consciousness remains in a supersensory concentrated solidarity of Being and undivided comprehension. Relativity reveals to the mind what it does fractionally and covers consciousness of the Absolute but the Absolute -- covered apparently like the sun by a speck of cloud and never really so -- shines in solitary splendour, nonetheless, beyond the reach of the relative threefold hindering elements of space, time and causality. Where we seemingly are, the Absolute seems not to be, and 'where' the Absolute is, we have like bubbles burst, disappearing like the morning mist in the enveloping atmosphere of superabiding transcendental Truth.

Sugata Bose @Santosh Kumar Banerjee : In Ramakrishna Mission schools a subject called 'Dharma' is taught.

Sugata Bose @Santosh Kumar Banerjee : Very much aware and feel betrayed by it. And it was a great relief to see them lose the Case in the Supreme Court whereby divine justice was dealt unto it. Else, it would have spelled the doom of the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Movement.

Sugata Bose @Shaoni Sarma : This has been a longstanding request from another venerable friend as well and I have as yet failed to comply, much less fulfil. I must do so now that it has come in like terms from another quarter as well but I need time. Till then let me ruminate on her life and times to be able to cull out significant passages from that epochal period of India's history so as to create the right setting for the unfolding of her great and golden life, and to that general effect my work has already been for years. For the specifics, let me set myself to this virtual labour of love, for what else does the Sister of burning love for all of us deserve from us?

Sugata Bose @Chandra Kumar Bose : Oh, a brilliant presentation ! Glory unto you, Chandra Kumar Bose. And you have completely effaced yourself through, perhaps, a deliberate use of the small letter to begin your sentences which, if translated to real life terms, augurs well for all. I have always harboured the notion that men like you should come forward, inspired by Swamiji and Netaji, to act thereof as beacons for the youth and, if you heed my hope thus, you will be doing our motherland a seminal service for which posterity will hold you in grateful memory and which shall also so spiritually serve you that you shall feel fulfilled one day in having done what you had done in so many terms. But these are but my visions about your esteemed self that need translation into life terms as yet and there are many that fondly nurse these hopes about you and look forward to that day when, free of personal political ambitions and inspired solely by the spirit of service, you shall dedicate yourself to doing yourself the rightful service that shall redeem you in the public imagination and fulfil you in rightful terms, making you an honour for your family and forefathers among whom shines Netaji with undimmed lustre to light up your path. I urge you to study Swamiji daily with a thoroughness that becomes you and comprehend Netaji in a fuller form, and thence to launch your active effort towards the betterment of the polity. My sincere regards and cherished aspirations.

Yours sincerely, Sugata Bose. 

Sugata Bose @Joydeep Mukherjee : ভারতরত্ন ? কেন ? কি তাঁর (অনীতা দেবীর) অবদান ভারতের জন্য ? আর হঠাৎ বিদেশিনীকে নিয়ে টানাটানি কেন দেশের রত্ন বিতরণের অভিপ্রায়ে ? তিনি ভারতের কে ও কি কাজ কবে করেছেন আমাদের দেশের জন্য যে তাঁর ভারতরত্ন পাওয়ার যোগ্যতা হঠাৎ জন্মাল আজ ?

Sugata Bose @Joydeep Mukherjee : ভাষাটা একটু সংযত করলে নেতাজীর প্রতি অধিক সম্মান প্রদর্শন হয় না কি ? কি বলেন ? আপনি তো একজন যথার্থ নেতাজী অনুরাগী ও অনুসারী, তাই না ? আপনার মুখে কি এহেন অপশব্দ শোভা পায় ? আপনার এই দুর্ভাষণ, এই অদ্ভূত ভাষাপ্রয়োগ কি নেতাজী অনুমোদন করতেন বলে আপনার মনে হয় ? সুসংস্কৃত হোন তাঁর মহান চারিত্রছাঁচে, তাঁর দৈব অনুপ্রেরণায় | নইলে বৃথা পণ্ডশ্রম এই প্রচার তাঁর নামে | ভেবে দেখবেন কথাগুলো | 

আপনার সুহৃদ, সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose), শ্রদ্ধেয় শিশির বসুর তনয় নয় |

Sugata Bose @Joydeep Mukherjee : Are you not ruining your future prospects in terms of social respectability by resorting to such vile language?

Sugata Bose @Sujoy Chowdhury : This proof is invalid as the official narrative is of Netaji having married in February 1942 and fathered Anita on 29 November of the same year. Therefore, this document is easily bypassed by protagonists of the marriage theory. However, if you go by the earlier date of alleged marriage, 26 December, 1937, then of course your certification here is vindicated as tenable proof of Netaji's celibacy. But there was a faux pas regarding the marriage date, I have heard from a credible source which puts the date of alleged marriage at a later point in February, 1942, just over nine months from Anita's birth. Whichever is true, I have no clue to it whatsoever, neither do I take up a position in this regard. I have only commented to highlight this particular point which is often missed in the melee of information cited to refute the alleged marriage .

Sugata Bose @Joydeep Mukherjee :  Shameless exposition of exquisite ignorance on your part. You are a legal practitioner and yet so irrational in addressing an issue as pertinent as the venerable Sukanta Biswas has raised? This is infrarational attitude most unbecoming of a reputed lawyer.

Sugata Bose @Bhaswar Das : Please resort to reason to silence ignorance as profound as this.

Sugata Bose @Joydeep Mukherjee : আগে judgement, পরে case ! বেশ, বেশ ! এরই নাম প্রেম স্বদেশ !

Sugata Bose @Drjayanta Choudhuri : The points are pertinent but they need proper presentation in a more rational way following absolute logical rigour that can stand the legal test. The speaker must completely avoid making emotional gestures or unnecessary digressions to bring home the point fearlessly and with due forthrightness. Clinical precision is necessary without any needless meandering or mention of extraneous facts that may confuse the audience by conflating issues. However, we are indebted nonetheless for a plethora of information presented, although in a trifle chaotic way that falls short of inducing conviction in the stated things. Greater intelligence is necessary to combat the perfidious forces in opposition. Else, all these efforts may excite public opinion in favour of the speaker's stated stance but will fail to alter factually the narrative in the higher echelons which control mass information. A legal luminary, if contacted and brought to conviction about these data, would do wonders for the cause but it is no ordinary lawyer's job either. Only the most brilliant mind at work can dispel these delusions that distract the common man regarding the patriot premier.

Sugata Bose @Ritabhari Chakraborty : Brilliant girl ! You will go miles yet till you reach the highest. To that dawn of quickening consciousness, to that dewy morn of awakening wisdom when the manifold world will melt in an unfolding of the solidarity of the Being, the integrated vision enveloping every aspect of your self and releasing you unto your highest transcendental Self, to that noonshine I send my heartiest commendations in advance lest such an occasion never arises again. Your intelligence must come good beyond the ephemeral glitter of phenomenal achievement and appreciation thereof and lead you unto your deepest Self where in limitless splendour abide you beyond the pale of all these appendages of attributes that so cover consciousness. God bless you a thousandfold for you to achieve your cherished laurels before you cast them aside in spontaneous self-assertion to reclaim your own truest Self ! May you stay healthy and safe, pure and perfect for rising tier by tier through the vicissitudes of life ! May Mother bless you ! May Thakur be your guiding star ever ! My warm wishes I add onto theirs, insignificant though they may be.

Sugata Bose @Sujoy Chowdhury : That is absolutely correct. What I have been stressing is that the correct line of defence ought to be provided to ward off such aggressive thrusts on the basis of suppositions and half-baked 'evidence'. The purported letter of Netaji to Sarat Bose attesting to the alleged marriage has not been tested forensically to estimate its date of origin, despite repeated requests by researchers who refute the marriage claim. But all things said and done, the defence has to be foolproof on the basis of hard evidence or its hard absence and on the basis of rigorous logic that can withstand all counter onslaught.

Sugata Bose @Joydeep Mukherjee : You will lose this battle, friend, for there are far too many ardent supporters of Netaji, devoted followers who can forsake for him a lot to be expected to stand by and pocket insult such as this to their hero. So, ready yourself for an assault from all sides or surrender your case if you have not the powder to stay put and fight.

Sugata Bose @Sujoy Mukherjee : Well enumerated and qualified it well too. I once used to fancy passing away at 39 like Swamiji and Dr. Martin Luther King but the duo rejected me from their august company and blessed me, it seems, with additional years and, perhaps, if I may second your opinion, that added verve of springing youth to carry on, hopefully, with work bearing a semblance of their undying spirit.

Sugata Bose @Bhaskar Mukherjee In the same club now at last. Junior citizens have evicted me.

Sugata Bose @Amit Paul : Many claim they have been solved, that Gumnami Baba/Bhagwanji is Netaji post-disappearance who categorically denied the marriage theory and even castigated Sisir as a 'liar'. Now it's for one to read and realize, confront these assertions and come to conclusions. The mystery will not otherwise be easy to dispel in the teeth of governmental apathy, even evident opposition to disclosure of the sealed documents in the PMO and the IB archives, and a consequent satisfactory closure of the case.

Sugata Bose @Rajyashree Chaudhuri : Who has authored this letter do you think? Who is this supposed self-righteous citizen who dares not come out into the open and reveal his identity? Subterfuge used here or genuine concern?

Sugata Bose @Satyendra Singh : BOOK PREVIEW -- Superb introduction. All the very best for what promises to be a fascinating account rendered in a delectable, crisp style, fast and moving, even as the subjects of the narrative and their life-transforming, world-transforming adventures. A very welcome move, a fresh literary approach in a realm filled with an overload of hackneyed articulate expression. My wholehearted support lies in wait expectantly for you and to your splendid contribution to the cause of bringing the premier three luminaries of modern India to the fore once again and together in this inimitable original way.

Sugata Bose @Sudhansu Barman : But he (Gandhi) did make a platform movement of pleaders into a mass movement of peasants.

Sugata Bose @Jayanta Das : Brilliant position for a brilliant person. Inspire your students with not only an avid interest for their subject of study but also love for the land, their motherland, their true mother who has nourished them and brought them thus far to fruition. They must not leave her shores for good, relegating her billion children to perpetual misery born in ignorance of the material means for decent survival. They have been educated at their expense and owe it to them to give, by way of loving return, their best services for the amelioration of the condition of the masses. God bless you in your noble endeavours ahead !

Sugata Bose @Rítãm Màitrà : He (Milkha Singh) sure did long back. Now may be our slow-reacting government will wake up and confer on him typically the posthumous Bharat Ratna.