FACEBOOK COMMENTS FROM DIFFERENT PROFILES ... 21

FACEBOOK COMMENTS FROM DIFFERENT PROFILES ... 21

Sugata Bose @Sangeeta Chakraborty : Your devotion to Thakur is sincere and surely endearing to him.

Sugata Bose @Diganta Sengupta : How lovely ! Divine looks. What eyes ! The quintessential classical Indian beauty.

Sugata Bose @Vandana Agrawal Jain : Only you appreciated. The rest are content with devotions and photograph.

Sugata Bose @Munish Kumar : Yes, the teachers must always be abreast of the latest developments in their field of academic activity for them to effectively impart knowledge and excite due curiosity in their students for further exploration of the subject.

Sugata Bose @DrAjeyy Shinde : No. Because the Jews are scientific unlike the Hindutvavaadis who are up to medieval religious pursuits wholesale nowadays in a most regressive manner oblivious of future consequence.

Sugata Bose @Aniruddha Bhattacharjee : The Arya culture is falling into disuse because of massive ignorance about it. Instead of sloganeering we should study and write about it for proper propagation of the pristine principles of this grandest of all philosophical systems.

Sugata Bose @Randeep Bhattacharya : No, a strict governance only on the basis of economic issues is the way ahead. Religious regressiveness cannot take us forward. Modern nations cannot afford to have archaic religious basis to their polity. The sociological issues are complex and need scientific handling which medieval religious culture can scarce cater to. Religion must be kept aside and apart from politics and allowed to run its private course with neither governmental patronage nor pandering to garner political support.

Sugata Bose @Randeep Bhattacharya : No, this religious favouritism which is the bane of all democracies must go. What we are seeing now is Hindu reaction. But it cannot save the country from impending economic disaster. Religious appeasement of a lowly type as is practised by the authorities in India must be robustly replaced by equal treatment of all. Crony capitalism must be checked and corrosive conversion must be checked as well. The Arya culture must be upheld which pronounces the equal divinity of all and this must be our national culture. But it has to be understood in depth and implemented duly with a view to national development and the overall evolution of the polity. Science and the Vedanta must cooperate in a classlesss, casteless society to bring happiness to all. Capitalism must not be allowed to bring in wide disparities in ownership of wealth, neither must Christianity or Islam be allowed to corrupt the age-old cultural course of the country. For this false propaganda, religion-based politics and collusion of political parties with their favoured business magnates must stop. But it can only be if the masses are made aware of their rights, if the middle class provides effective leadership and if the leaders are of character and merit. A far cry as of now in a nation of little understanding of its cultural identity, little willingness to sacrifice for the well-being of the country and a polity suffering from a surfeit of levity.

Sugata Bose @Bhaskar Nath : Religion is the root of all evil in politics. Christianity and Islam have been more political movements historically than religious. Hence, their emphasis on conversion to gain popular control of territory and consequent political power. The Arya culture has suffered thus terribly through the ill-effects of Christian and Islamic invasion and has hardly been itself for the past 1300 odd years. The climactic death-deal dealt by Islam was the Partition of the motherland and the wedge driven into the polity then is breeding its foul harvest in regressive politics of the day, perhaps, a due development in antithesis following the dialectics of historical materialism. But modernity demands scientific development in rapid terms notwithstanding the other cultural compulsions that may seem to be of overriding importance. Else, a vast population will flounder so foul that it will face a catastrophe unthinkable as of now. India is no small village that religious arbitration may rule. This vast nation has a Constitution that must duly be abided by in truth and in all sincerity of intent and action. Medievalism must be universally supplanted by modernity, regressive religion by progressive science and crony capitalism by welfare economics that works.

Sugata Bose @Randeep Bhattacharya : I agree wholeheartedly with you here. When the question of religious freedom came up in the debates of the Constituent Assembly it was decided to not only allow religious freedom of practice but also that of propagation. Hence, the two Semitic religions, Christianity and Islam, which had done such damage to the Arya culture for more than a millennium, were given a free rein to keep corroding our hoary Vedic culture through continued conversion. When Morarji Desai in 1977 expressed the will to bring in the Anti-Conversion Bill, it was our beloved Mother Teresa who had entreated with the Prime Minister to refrain from passing the Bill as it would deny the people of India the free choice of religion, if even through conversion. The Government for whatever reason did not go ahead with the tabling of the Bill. The conversion programme carried on and we are where we are now.

Sugata Bose @Randeep Bhattacharya : Uniform Civil Code, yes. Ban on Religious Conversion will be antithetical to democracy. Hence, it will be difficult to implement unless India declares herself to be a theocratic state, a Hindu Rashtra. Population policy, of course, is a must and needs urgent implementation. The term 'secular' ought to be defined clearly for sure. The French Revolution had given it a distinctly atheistic character. But later world developments have defined it as the government being guided in its rule by Constitutional provisions as opposed to the dictates of religious scriptures which theocracies follow in governance, that is, the political state and religion are to be kept completely separate and disjoint.

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : ধর্ম হল যা মানুষকে একত্বের পথে ধারণ করে রাখে ।

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick True. But for some this dual face is basic to their character, born out of the need to impress others and rise in people's estimation. Such ones are self-deluded and as yet unfit for the inner life, leave alone Self-realisation.

Sugata Bose @Sanjay Sarkar : পাকিস্তান আলোকপ্রাপ্ত -- ওটি শ্লেষাত্মক ।

Sugata Bose @Rítãm Màitrà : Which branch centre of Ramakrishna Mission have you discovered in Pakistan since they wound up bag an baggage in 1948?

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : Today we are en masse being led into the regressive trappings of medieval reactionary Hinduism rather than the original Vedic Dharma. The invasive influence of Buddhism, Jainism, Christianity and Islam led the Sanatan Dharma into reverse reactionary gear which was medieval Hinduism. What we are now up to is adhering to its worst decadent form. This is certainly not the kind of dharma that the Arya rishis had discovered and introduced into the body politic of the then Bharatvarsha. What the rishis taught was not at all contradisposed to what we today term modern science. Rather it was the culmination and the fulfilment of it. Read Bhupendranath Datta's 'Swami Vivekananda Patriot-Prophet' and you will understand what I mean. In it is detailed this decadence and the historical process determining it. The religion that is popular today and is being politically popularised is Pauranic Dharma and not Vedic Dharma. The way ahead, though, is courtesy modern science and the ancient Vedanta.

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : Not quite that way because ISKCON spreads superstition in the name of religion, irrational doctrinaire imposition which are not Vedic in spirit but have a decadent reactionary basis to it, courtesy invasion of India by Islam. But you are right in the sense that Hinduism in general must take the cue from this organisation's proselytising zeal and accordingly with more reasoned and seasoned steps move ahead with the spiritual conquest of the world. Perhaps, ancient Buddhism is a better exemplar in this whole business.

Sugata Bose @Sujoy Mukherjee : I am with you in the same boat by the riverside, anchored to hope and refusing to as yet set sail till the Mother Faith be safely settled onto its all-conquering course.

Sugata Bose @Vidya K : True. Therefore we must preach the pristine principles of the Vedanta to enlighten the world just as science has done in case of the material world. But Christianity and Islam are corrosively converting. Hence, by way of self-defence also we can no longer be passive onlookers to our own brethren being converted en masse to these proselytising faiths but must aggressively reach out to them by way of guarding them against such prospective conversion as well as actively opposing such moves by Christian missionaries and Islamic clerics.

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : Yes, they are. Veda is the source and Tantra the derivative.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : Glories are always finite, hence untenable. Enumeration can never be infinite and attributes being conceptions are ever bound with limits. Hence, untenable.

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : Islam is limited in that sense and cannot rise to the highest conception of the infinite God, Brahman. Hence, like its other two monotheistic Abrahamic siblings, Judaism and Christianity, it cannot look beyond its narrow, exclusive, totalitarian view about the One who words fail to describe, conceptions fail to reach and who cannot be possibly circumscribed by text or prophetic injunction, by arbitrary individual assertion or imposition of any sort whatsoever. That Sri Ramakrishna criticised the Vaishnava intolerance and not that of Islam may be purely because of his greater interaction with adherents of the former faith and little interaction with that of the latter. Moreover, the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna only records what M was witness to of the Master's sayings. Hence. However, Sri Ramakrishna was never too tired of remonstrating against all forms of exclusiveness of faith which surely absolves him of any such selective statement about it as you have referred to.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : First of all there is an assumption here that there is after all a Creator, that it is at all necessary to have one. Secondly, manifestation being always finite, attributes are finite as well. Hence, to define God as a being with infinite good attributes is a contradiction in terms. God, if He is, cannot be thus described and may be only admitted as a transcendent impersonal being beyond finite reach. What is being attempted to be reached within phenomenal bounds is a human conception which is necessarily limited and not infinite as such. Hence, such a God falls flat and fails His own existence in finite human understanding. The Vedantic view is the only rational way out of this dubious predicament and that is of a transcendent reality with no phenomenal appendage.

Sugata Bose @Swami Nikhileshwarananda : M's original birthday was on 14 July, the Bastille Day.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : This is the stated stance of the faithful but is illogical as such. Maya is manifestation and is as such finite. So, the immanent God, the so-called ruler of Maya, is necessarily finite. ''God and the universe rise together and God and the universe fall together,'' says Swamiji. There cannot be two infinities. God being Maya has no real existence just like the universe has none such. He, like the universe of name and form, is an appearance in either name and form or attributes which is in altered terms the same. God disappears in Brahman which is the only reality. Hence, all this infinitude ascribed to God in devotional terms is unreasonable, logically invalid and philosophically flawed. There is only one reality and that is the Vast Void of the attributeless substratum, the existential substance of a delusive vacuous world.

Sugata Bose @Partha Pratim Adhikary : What else is God? Nirguna is hardly ever referred to anywhere as God.

Sugata Bose @Bhaskar Sen Sharma : But glorification of personality, be that of man or a supposed God, is in a sense propaganda and, hence, commercial, however sublime the commerce may be held to be. Whether man derives profit out of it in immediate tangible terms or more deferred benefit of a mass following with its accruing assets following suit, the propagation of personality which dualistic religion invariably does is fuelled by the gregarious commercial instinct, if you get what I mean by it.

Sugata Bose @Bhaskar Sen Sharma : But subservience to personality is fundamentally a weakness born out of bodily weakness and borne by the sense of physicality. Hence, such adherence has wasted the early promise of the Vedic religion as it has stultified its impersonal philosophical growth which modern science has through its impersonal endeavours taken up and flourished thereby. The Sanatan Dharma was never such a debilitation in terms of personality worship. Unfortunately, its latter-day aberration post the Islamic conquest of India has become so and the decadence continues.

Sugata Bose @Bhaskar Sen Sharma : That's what I like about you, honesty par excellence and filial adherence to truth felt or being in consonance with.

Sugata Bose @Pijus Kumar Dey : The goat body is being eaten which is not Atma. Atma is the underlying Spirit, the substratum of phenomenal existence.

Sugata Bose @Pijus Kumar Dey : Has God made any rules ever, unless you mean to say that natural law is God's rule?

Sugata Bose @Abhisek Metya : We can only hope for such a utilisation of available talent. But I have been hoping for it since my childhood and have now become a senior citizen, still hoping. Alas, hope, the eternal duper, never dies, although, having reposed faith in it and not in our abilities, we die despicable deaths! Indeed, as a nation we are only expected to hop about hope!

Sugata Bose @Pijus Kumar Dey : Sure enough. But where is all this 'food stuff' coming into discussion here in the first place? It is your introduction, not the post's.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : Read 'Is Vedanta the Future Religion?' However, it has to be understood as well. Mere reading may not suffice. But, nonetheless, we can only begin somewhere and a good way is to begin by reading the text before we read into its meaning and eventually its essence which must not just be read but realised comprehensively.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : One can experience this supposed God on the basis of a hypothesis that one exists. But it is just a hypothesis and nothing more. Since one's phenomenal existence cannot be proved, such assertions of dualistic God-vision do not hold any credible ground.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : There is no question of Shakti gracing any for neither in essence exist. Experience non-dual, ever frozen in solidified, solitary, existential solidarity of being, is its self-validation.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : These stories are myths within the myth of phenomena, dreams having no significance as such, for they are bred and born in the primeval ignorance of name and form which cannot be ascribed any existential reality. The question of aspiration, aspirant, realised soul, grace and entry into and exit from the transcendental state are all myths. Hence, they are to be discarded in this deliberation on the Absolute Reality which, after all, has no need of deliberation whatsoever, such deliberation itself being mythical and, so, unreal. Brahman alone is. There can be no Brahmajnani as the latter is a conception yet again of name and form which cannot approach the Transcendent Reality.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : All is unreal. Brahman alone is, though not the way it seems to be, clothed in this fine epithet adorning it. Truth cannot be conditional.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad: Who is Totapuri and who is Ramakrishna? Who is Swami Bhuteshananda? Does Brahman need props to stand on by their presence or to fall by in their absence? It is its own support and needs no authentication or otherwise by myths, however magnified as holy and sacrosanct. Brahman, rather Tat, alone is.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : Rosy stories.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : Provided the 'I' has any validity. All rosy stories bred in ignorance.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : All your statements are on the basis of the original assumption of phenomenal reality. Hence, they are invalid as substantive evidence. Phenomena cannot be substantiated except through their like falsehood in other phenomenal assertions.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : Multiplicity simply is not. Oneness alone abides. Hence, your arguments seem extraneous. 

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : Quotation and authority do not validate truth or negate it. Brahman is its own authority, none else is.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : This dualistic stand on the non-dual is amusing, although such amusement is Maya, too.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : But Swamiji, to quote him for once, seriously doubts the efficacy of the dualistic method in arriving at the Absolute Truth. He much disapproves of resorting to the dualistic falsehood to attempt to realise the Truth. Read 'Is Vedanta the Future Religion?'

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : How do you know it? All your cognition of such assertions is based on dualism.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : Then you admit that you are discussing being based in unreality or falsehood?

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : We have been discussing truth, not any assumed aberration of it. Hence, the question of breadth or narrowness of deliberation does not arise.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : But can anybody ever attain illumination? Illumination ever being impersonal, the personality dissolves to reveal it. No one is illumined. Illumination simply is. The Atman abides in itself, none ever reaches it. One simply disappears at a distance to reform again at a distance while the Atman in separation abides in Self-brooding, in Self-witnessing. The term 'Brahmajnani' (Knower of Brahman) is erroneous, an equal myth as the universe all knowledge and knowers belong to is.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : Hence, the dualistic misconceptions that are being constantly brought in by dogmatic assertion of authority as opposed to sane logic. Absence of subtle intelligence is causing it. Age-old superstition is at the root of it.  Samadhi alone will clear conception. No wonder Swamiji laments in 'Is Vedanta the Future Religion?' what he does lament. Quotation is one, a quickening of consciousness another. Egotism will not allow access to understanding. So, words by means of copious quotes flow tantamount to nothing substantial. So, let vanity reign even as the Atman in serenity witnesses the panoramic nothingness.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : Swamiji's innermost message is enshrined in 'Is Vedanta the Future Religion?' There he categorically states it all. Moreover, why bring in authority, however hallowed, to refute what has been forwarded in logical, realised terms, if one, of course, has the like understanding to corroborate for oneself what has been stated, though? Authority comes in only when facts fail or understanding cannot cope with logic afforded. The scientific process of both the Vedanta and that if modern science stands independent of establishment of truth by authority. Truth, infinitely greater, is no authority's bondman. It is it's own authority. No wonder the Vedas refute their own authority in the apprehension of Truth. 'Naymaatmaa pravachanena labhya na medhayaa na bahuaa shrutena.'

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : Endless, infinite -- these are finite attempts at enumeration of the Infinite which is a contradiction in terms as I have at the very outset sufficiently explained but which you failed to apprehend. Hence, 'the fault lies dear "Durga Prasad" not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings.'

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : Cosmic Maya is not infinite. It is the misapprehension of Brahman which is infinite. Neither is it beginningless in the sense that it is eternal. It means that the cause of ignorance is ignorance itself. Likewise, and not contrarily as is often supposed, ignorance vanishes in a trice in the quickening of absolute consciousness. Maya is, thus, neither eternal nor infinite. It may be posited that one man's liberation does not end Maya which then continues for others. But a counter-argument to this is that others simply don't anymore exist when ignorance has been dispelled. At any rate, Maya is insubstantial and, hence, neither infinite nor eternal in any substantive sense.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : Everything is conceptually limited, bounded by the limited mind. Even the phenomenal God is a conception, hence, limited. Likewise the universe and all its seemingly endless paraphernalia are limited by mental conception.

Sugata Bose @Durga Prasad : That the mind is limited means that its conceptions are necessarily limited as well. There cannot be anything called unlimited limit which is an absurd proposition. Hence, the very question is a fruitless one that serves no purpose.

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : Meditate on the meaning of my writings instead of quick conclusion about their content. Deep thought will help you catch the drift of my writings and your confusion will generally be clarified. If they still persist, then ask pertinent questions. You are a student of law and ought to know better what I mean by it. The court overrules extraneous questions, I am sure you know very well.

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : You read my posts and so shall you benefit. But when your queries are met with copious explanations by me you ought to at least acknowledge the same.

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : Cultivate your talents, hone your skills, enhance your learning, expand your heart and develop your individuality so that the best fruits of all these you may present to our beloved motherland. This is my exhortation to youths like you.

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : I will be only too happy to help you along but only if you are very sincere, otherwise not.

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : Very well. I will seek other seekers then to carry on with my mission.

Sugata Bose @Gopa Sarkar : You truly have a fine sense of humour. Makes good the day.

Sugata Bose @Susmita Das : But dualistic ignorance does survive aeons, often much more in this phenomenal play of time.

Sugata Bose @Rítãm Màitrà : Rationalisation of the country, disciplining it physically and mentally, free of spiritual superstition and social prejudice. Mass quality education, good food, productive employment and facilities for creative exercise of latent talent must be made available. Spiritual mumbo-jumbo must be replaced with scientific training of the population. These are the first measures. Accuracy in work must be catered to and mediocrity discouraged and discarded. Excellence in everything must be the norm. Nationwide punctuality must be maintained. Organisation is the key. Accuracy and precision is the other criterion. Then the nation will be fit for the next stage of sporting development. Overmuch of fanfare must be disallowed and keen and fair competition must be made for. Hero-worship and hullabaloo about small or big achievement must be categorically cast away. Let this spirit first come in. The rest will follow.

Sugata Bose @Sangeeta Chakraborty : তুমি অসাধারণ ভাল মেয়ে | আমি আজ কয়েক বছর তোমায় চিনি ফেসবুক মারফৎ | মুগ্ধ হয়ে যাই তোমার সরল, কোমল, উন্নত, উদার ভাব দেখে | ভাল থেকো | ঠাকুর-মা আশীর্বাদ করুন তোমায় মুক্তহস্তে |

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : No. I want India to exclude religion totally from politics. The mix is dangerous for the integration of our polity. Hence, India should remain a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic but she should stand on her own now and gradually ease herself off from the British Commonwealth of Nations, but slowly, securely and in measured magnitude as economic interests are at stake.

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : Why not the whole universe and the whole of the endless number of universes from beginningless manifestation unto endless manifestation and all manifested beings as my siblings?

Sugata Bose @Chandra Kumar Bose : That's the pity, no progression. (My reply to Chandra Kumar Bose's post : Once a politician, always a politician.)

Sugata Bose @Maths Formula: In different steps degrees are vanishing and in following steps they are reappearing. This lack of mathematical rigour is neither expected nor is it acceptable.

Sugata Bose @Satyendra Singhji, it's a dream come true. A riveting account it will be, I'm absolutely sure. Will campaign for your book extensively. Have already started it.

Sugata Bose @Rítãm Màitrà : Your punctuation needs perfection.

Sugata Bose @Maths Formula : A lot of right angles to be proved in order to establish the rectangle before Pythagoras may come alive. Too often we see assumptions made from common sight which ought not to be in keeping with mathematical rigour.

Sugata Bose @Somnath Acharya : It is for you to study deep and get clarified. A consistent anti-Gandhi stance as is evident on Facebook by a section of people only compounds ignorance and proves that we are a perverse polity today not deserving our very best. That, of course, is indicative of a dangerous trend and portentous of our imminent downfall. Fortunately, vast numbers of sane people do not subscribe to such anti-Gandhi fanaticism.

Sugata Bose @Mathematics for Learning : The last option is incorrect. 2½ here an additional appendage in the murky solution. (50×2½) ÷ (2×2½) = 25 and not 25×2½.

Sugata Bose @Abhisek Metya : I like the way you write. Clear, concise, succinct, unminced articulation with proper data input and an accuracy in presentation that I do not much see in my compatriots, my countrymen in general.

Sugata Bose @Abhisek Metya : Well said. Yes, we must pull in our might to deal them the deathblow, they who had reduced our national hopes to ashes for so long through colonial-imperial oppression. Let us pray then for our girls and cheer them on to victory.

Sugata Bose @Rituparna Basu : You are a most engaging writer. Riveting is your style, simply absorbing.

Sugata Bose @Bhaskar Mukherjee : Discuss the contentious issue of the post in relative terms and in consequential terms relating to the future of our country and its impact thereof on the world, Bhaskar. You are such a well-read person, dear friend, and you must bring in your erudition to shed light on this subject for us to benefit from. These five schools, indeed, have wielded tremendous influence on our polity in one way or the other and continue to shape both our civic consciousness and our national destiny. Hence, I request you and Bhaskar Sen Sharma to initiate a worthwhile discussion on this issue which we may all join in.

Sugata Bose @ Swami Nikhileshwarananda : Bad advertisement. Are we losing sense and sanity to commercialise Thakur thus? Is this exemplification of what 'Taka maati, maati taka' and 'Kaminikanchan tyaag' is supposed to be? The ideals are being lost as oblivion of the original mission sets in. This is not only regrettable but is a sign of decadence that ought to be urgently redressed. Else, a reappearance of Thakur and his divine entourage can only set things in a newer mission right. Terrible is this decay, catastrophic the prospective consequences. May Ramakrishna rescue himself from commercial consequence thus, for his followers are sinking in the quicksand of the degenerate times! (In relation to Swami Nikhileshwarananda's post of a newspaper clip showing the film superstar Rajnikanth's statement that Sri Ramakrishna was his first Guru.)

Sugata Bose @Ratan Pal : Right. Prannoy Roy is the brother-in-law of Prakash Karat.  But you have written the CPI(M) leader's name in lower case. Was it deliberate or common error? Also, you did not end your sentence with a full stop. Was that deliberate, too, meaning that do you believe Mr. Karat has an indefinitely long future political career in his party?

Sugata Bose @Ratan Pal : That's the spirit. At a time when we are going euphoric in celebration of our Olympic achievements I thought it pertinent to mischievously point out our casual approach to things in general by making the above remark about your irregularly punctuated statement, knowing full well that you write eminently good English. Hence, I thought you would not mind the reference thus where another person of lesser linguistic capability might have taken offence to. But, surely, you do agree with me on this pertinent point of our casual imperfection in ordinary things whose larger impact is in producing mediocrity at the highest level of international attainment as in science and sports, to quote but two disciplines off-hand. This we must improve upon if we are to rationalise our polity well enough to be able to consistently produce excellence in the diverse disciplines of life. My observation was to that effect to you, my illumined friend. There was no political overtone or undertone to it.

Sugata Bose @INDIA'S OLYMPIC DREAMS : It was a trifle disturbing to see that players' safety was overlooked during the felicitations in these terrible times of the pandemic. Unmasked crowding is not quite sporting, neither conducive to the scientific temper which is the imperative for winning at the highest level of international sports.

Sugata Bose @Riya Bhattacharya : The poor participation in the group (INDIA'S OLYMPIC DREAMS) is proof of our national lack of energy and enterprise despite all the hoopla for a few days over an equally few medals won at the Olympics. We are a tamasic race yet and need to go a long way before we mature as a sporting or a scientific nation worth the call. Right now let us try our best and redress this lost balance in our national life.

Sugata Bose @Riya Bhattacharya : The nation sleeps or at best yawns when it comes to putting in sustained hard work for the attainment of excellence at the highest international level. Individuals may excel but there is yet mass failure characterizing us as a nation. We excel in procreation, pollution, perverse politics, pernicious propaganda and the progressive build-up of personality cult. All this must be swept away if we are to sweep the medals in future Olympics.

Sugata Bose @Riya Bhattacharya : Grand editing done. Persistent in achieving perfection. This is the way, my friend, the unmistakable sign of future greatness, so very missing in our countrymen.

Sugata Bose @Colour politics, indeed! Who says royalty is gone? Blue indicates royalty, blue blood, does it not? And so is it with Indian politics where dynastic dispensation is still the norm despite the Anti-Zamindari Act of 1955. This is unrelated to the post but is by way of a quick quip with obvious implications for dynastic degeneration in Indian politics to which West Bengal for all its pious pretensions is no holy exception.

Sugata Bose @Sujoy Mukherjee : Works both ways. The intent of the post was different and has as usual, on account of its unexplained brevity, missed its mark.

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : Go ahead on your own first. Show your courage of conviction. Others will follow suit.

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : Do it on your own first. Lead by personal example.

Sugata Bose @Sulekha Basu : Indeed. Reading is becoming increasingly rare if I have read into it right.

Sugata Bose @Utsav Datta : Yes. But you can include those you have not seen as well but have read about or heard about from connoisseurs of cricket, players who have graced the game in the past and attained to superlative heights of excellence. Such a selection will give historical balance and depth to the side.

Sugata Bose @Utsav Datta : I admire your ready response.

Sugata Bose @Subrata Sengupta : Even after being cleared by biometric tests multiple times, Murali in popular conception is beheld as a chucker. Unfortunate indeed. Steve Waugh has hailed him as the Bradman of bowling. His extraordinary strike rate, exceptional abilities of turning the ball square on all types of pitches, spinner-friendly or otherwise, his deceptive doosra or the off-spinner's wrong-un, his deadly accuracy and his phenomenal wicket-taking capacity that allows him to almost singlehandedly win test matches, ought to be in popular imagination by better propagation through the media that chooses to highlight Warne alone. Hence, the myth of Murali the chucker is sustained despite contrary evidence testifying to his legitimacy as a spinner, and Murali the magician, the marvel, is lost to the world. We must reverse this trend and restore his respectability as a bowler, the like of whom test cricket history cannot testify to nor is it is likely that it will see any such emerge in the near or the distant future, much like the Don who yet remains unparalleled in cricketing attainments. We were privileged to witness this phenomenon unfold before us and evolve to magical proportions. The Don we missed but Murali has been right before our eyes. Let us now have the eye to see it in perspective once more.

Sugata Bose @Abhisek Metya : You have a point but it can be contested as well. Murali was unduly harassed by Australian umpires that did not allow him to bowl properly for any length of undisturbed time. Moreover, Murali's genius unfolded gradually with ever-increasing strike rate in the second half of his career after he had perfected some of his other deliveries including the 'doosra'. It must be remembered that Sri Lanka to begin with was a very weak Test team and it was Murali who almost singlehandedly developed the side into a match-winning one with his extraordinary performances later on. Warne is surely the legend of leg-spin and there can be no adverse comparison made between the two spinners of opposite art but it must be borne in mind that Muralidaran never toured Australia again after being called by Umpire Darrell Hair repeatedly for throwing. Hence, it would be unfair to judge his performance in Australia. But he excelled in England to prove his point. Warne failed in India more than Murali did. So, what of it? Experts favour Warne because of his clean and beautiful action as opposed to Murali's ungainly action and seemingly demonic demeanour in delivery. But the control that he exhibits is no less than Warne's,  if not more, and his ability to take wickets is likewise more. Had the Aussie pacers not cleaned up many of the scalps early on and the tail thereafter, and had Warne been allowed to bowl on from one end constantly like Murali did, the Aussie would have gathered a greater number of wickets in his kitty for sure. So, we must objectively study the two, analytically understand their relative strengths and weaknesses, and then alone come to considered conclusions about the twain.

Sugata Bose @Aloke Mukherjee : They have forgotten that they are self-locked. The common human predicament, you see -- venturing forth while remaining locked within. All the strife in the world arises from this common propensity of self-preservation while plundering others. Colonialism, imperialism, all have this locking self while engaging in expansionism as their basis. Trade restrictions imposed at home on other countries while freely trading in theirs is the practice in China, India etc. as is evidenced by the constant complaint lodged by major players like the USA in this regard. People have now provided this new variant of profile-locking while knocking on others' profiles. However, to come back to what you have pointed out, it is an irritant to behold this offering of supposed friendship while remaining incognito for it betrays the fundamental principle of faith reposed in a friend-in-the-making about the trustworthiness of the latter and confidence in his person as to honouring information about one's self laid at his disposal. This, however, despite pretensions of fraternising, is the trend of the times, irritating but true. The best way out is to ignore them and move on. No good fraternising with shadowy figures. That's my take on it.

Sugata Bose @Vandana Agrawal Jain : You are a rare sympathiser of my thoughts.

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