THE MELBOURNE WALKOUT AND THE MYTH THEREOF, EVEN NOW PERSISITING, COURTESY OUR INDOLENCE IN COMBATING IT
Tuesday 31 August 2021
IS THIS QUITE CRICKET
IS THIS QUITE CRICKET?
Cricketing enthusiasm in India notwithstanding, cricketing literacy here is rather poor. A surface knowledge of the game and utter ignorance of its history seems to be the dominant theme in a country that supposedly adheres to cricket as a 'religion' cutting across cultural barriers. Where religion divides, cricket unites. But a terrible apathy towards the history of cricket marks the shallowness of approach to this game here, even amongst the greats of the game in this country. For instance, Virender Sehwag has openly admitted that till the early years of this millennium, well into his playing career, he did not know who Vinoo Mankad was. That tells us the story. Tiger Pataudi had famously remarked then that the Indian cricket coach, Greg Chappell, ought to make for lessons in cricket's history for his players alongside his regimen of physical exercises aimed at fitness. The devastating implication was that an ignorant mind was unfit as well in terms of whatever goes by the name of cricket.
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo : Vinoo Mankad in action. For those who care not to know their nation's glorious cricketing heritage or the heritage of the great game in general across the globe.
Comments :
Sugata Bose @Utsav Datta : Do not worry. I will be writing more about the exploits of Vinoo Mankad to dispel this delusion about him in the minds of his mindless countrymen of this day. By the way. Is Sehwag's stupendous ignorance justifiable reason for diminution of Vinoo Mankad's stupendous achievements on the cricket field? Sehwag is equally ignorant about most other elements of cricketing history barring those which he was privy to in his cricketing career. What of it? It would be worthwhile reading in depth the history of the great game rather than running down individuals of preeminence in it on the basis of superficial knowledge and understanding. Indian cricket deserves a better deal surely than its obvious pecuniary aspect as is now current in corrosive commercial terms. A deeper appreciation of the game's greats would enrich both individual and the aggregate in cricketing terms.
Friday 27 August 2021
DON BRADMAN -- 87 NOT OUT -- CRICKETING OBSERVATIONS
DON BRADMAN -- 87 NOT OUT -- CRICKETING OBSERVATIONS
1. The Don is simply the greatest. His matchless intellect and articulation as evidenced in this interview is proof enough of that. His batting skills must have been the outflow in physical form of this finer dexterity reigning behind.The greatest bowler of olden times.
2. Sydney Francis Barnes was the ultimate professional in an era when amateurs dominated the 'gentleman's game'.
3. Opening the batting is significantly more difficult than playing in the middle order, for the new ball has to be negotiated. Thus, it will be clear why opening batsmen have relatively lower career batting averages generally than their brighter middle order counterparts. And these ought to be kept in mind when assigning rankings to the all-time great batsmen.
4. WHEN NEHRA FOULS THE AIR
Listening to the Hindi commentary on the current India-England Test series (2021 in England) has been the most disgusting experience of my life. Especially Ashish Nehra with his unending voluble talk that distracts one from concentrating on the visual element of the match and prevents one from reflecting on its course. The only alternative is to mute commentary while viewing. These garrulous commentators do not even know the basics of television commentary and ought to take cues from Richie Benaud, John Arlott, Brian Johnston, Ian Chappell and Bill Lawry before they proceed next to air their views. Added to this is the barrage of frivolous advertisements in between overs and you have the complete package of verbal nuisance spoiling discourse in a game that has the unique tradition of great storytelling by eminent commentators during a test match.
Written by Sugata Bose
5. Charlie, the chucker? So, Nari Contractor had to pay the price for his unfairness of the short ball?
6. SugataBose @Utsav Datta : Perhaps, you are of a different generation and not quite aware of Mankad's phenomenal attainments in those early years of Indian cricket.
7. Sugata Bose @Utsav Datta : Statistics needs analysis to understand. When Sehwag had admitted that he had never heard of Vinoo Mankad, it can be understood in your case. Our cricketing literacy is rather poor. Depth-reading and research will reveal an altered picture altogether.
8. Listen to what John Arlott has to say about Vinoo Mankad and then come to terms with your estimation about this great all-rounder who I rate as India's greatest cricketer of all time.
9. Sugata Bose @Sushanta Banerjee : Bradman himself accounts for two batsmen rolled into one. This was Bradman's own formula as revealed in the book BRADMAN'S BEST written and published posthumous to Bradman's passing away. The book chronicles Bradman's choice of his ideal best-ever team based on his formated blueprint for selection. It includes five specialist batsmen, an all-rounder, a batting wicket-keeper, three fast bowlers of which one is a specialist in swing, and two leg-spinners. I have altered it in including the off-spinner et al in Murali. However, I agree with your contention as well. It is bowler-heavy from the ordinary selection perspective.
10. Unless tomfoolery leaves this country (India) en masse, there is no hope of its redemption in any sphere of activity. Cricket must necessarily suffer the consequences of mass levity.
11. শেষে গাভাস্কারও চ্যাংড়া হয়ে গেলেন ? যুগের হাওয়া, ভারত specific ! [ In old age people become lying masks of men. -- Swamiji ]
12. We need to improve the quality of cricket commentary in India. It is of distastefully low quality bordering on the ridiculous when one considers the level of levity that characterises it.
13. 
John Snow's deliberate, hard pushing of Sunil Gavaskar, precipitating him when he was taking a run in 1971 in the first Test match of the India-England Test series, was an unbelievable act of crudeness and hardly the brightest act of British fairplay, sportsmanship and superior civilisation as they are so wont to boasting about. That the TCCB did censure Snow and dropped him from, first the remaining two Test matches and then only the second Test match as such, was quite in keeping with the spirit of the game, though.
Written by Sugata Bose
14. 
To me Gavaskar as a batsman and as an individual is ahead of Tendulkar by miles.
15. বাচ্চা ছেলেগুলোর খেলা দেখে মনে হয় বুড়োগুলো আর ক'বছর আগে অবসরপ্রাপ্ত হলে দেশের প্রভূত কল্যাণ হত |
16. টাকা কী জিনিস ! বিখ্যাত ক্রিকেট খেলোয়াড়রা সব বিক্রী হয়ে গেছে |
17. Third grade commentators busy cracking nonsensical jokes, cheap entertainment being provided where expert comments ought to be forthcoming.
18. তেজ জিনিসটা নষ্ট হয়ে যায় টাকার প্রতি এইরকম অতিরিক্ত আসক্তি থাকলে | খেলোয়াড়দের এটা ভাববার বিষয় | বর্তমান ও অতীতের খেলোয়াড়, উভয়ের পক্ষেই এই মন্তব্য প্রযোজ্য | খেলেছেন ভালই | এখন ভাঁড়ামোটা না করলে ও টাকার জন্য নিজেকে বিক্রী না করলে চতুর্থ ইনিংসের খেলাটা যথোচিত হবে |
19. Cricket is a two innings, five-day affair whose test is in the Test match as goes by its very name. Its single innings, abbreviated one-day, 50-over, 20-over version is its aberration and may be duly termed 'crick' but certainly not 'cricket'. It is a cricketing circus of sorts, no doubt, but it is just not cricket in its true and pristine form.
20. ভারতরত্ন mutual fund বেচছেন | মন্দ নয় ! ঠিক ঠিক ভারতরত্ন !
21. An Indian fan in the crowd displays a card that says he has OCD or Obsessive Cricketing Disorder which is indeed unfortunate for a country oblivious of its larger responsibilities. And this disorder runs through the nation -- as yet in its nascent state of maturing -- from the famous to the ordinary citizen, all distracted by the Enchantress Divine and yet again submitting to Her delusive designs at destruction of the nation.
22. Golden win 1971-2021. Chandrasekhar's 6-38 is celebrated again today. Well done, Kohli and boys !
23. Sony TV's Hindi anchor of Extra Innings should be sacked. His ludicrous behaviour is totally unwelcome to viewers, going by my own distaste for it.
24. Sony TV's Hindi anchor of Extra Innings should be sacked. His ludicrous behaviour is totally unwelcome to viewers, going by my own distaste for it.
25. Not many people remember that Gavaskar had scored his first 19 Test centuries in his first 45 Test matches. He then went on to score another 15 centuries in his next 80 Tests to finish with 34 Test centuries from 125 Tests.
26. Rajdeep Sardesai may be Dilip Sardesai's son but he does not understand much about cricket. His knowledge of the game is superficial, observations ordinary, widely deflected and in general he, like many other journalists of his era, tends to draw out expected answers from his interviewee by asking typical questions that pander to the audience. He is generally shallow, dull and not fitted to the job of interviewing eminent cricketers on cricket, a subject about which his knowledge is a little better than nil. He even confidently misquotes data as when he says that Tendulkar scored 158 in the Chennai Test of 1998 against Warne and company, when asked by Warne if he was correct in saying that it was 156 or 158. In real it was 155.
27. After watching Sehwag on television indulge in frivolous chit chat bordering on cultural degeneration I have lost respect for the great batsman.
28. Beginning to lose respect for our famed cricketers of the recently retired lot as they indulge in frivolities bordering on the ridiculous and culturally degenerate on television and social media.
29. Television journalism has touched rock-bottom. Commerce has corroded personality, self-respect, civilisation et al.
30. POINT TO PONDER -- READ ON TO DO SO
Bishan Singh Bedi has said that had it not been for cricket he would have landed up being, perhaps, a bank clerk or so. If with Bedi's clear thinking capacity but ordinary education this is what to his reckoning his fate would have been, what would Tendulkar's have been in a like manner sans cricket? Gavaskar for sure would have excelled as an author or so but what about Tendulkar?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dXu_MAR2ZMY&feature=share
31. The Don's IQ stood out and his character strength. Plus his natural abilities of course. His refusal to make money out of cricket is a standout in today's cheap commercial world of cricket where famous players have sold themselves to the copper coin.
32. Watch this video. See how Bishan Singh Bedi and Rajdeep Sardesai both thrash the system that is so corrupt. Rajdeep lambasts Tendulkar, Kohli and the rest of the cricketing celebrities for their compromise with cash, self-promotion and the like. I am happy at last to find some solid idealists among our countrymen. I used to feel a terribly isolated voice protesting against the hypocrisies of the age in which prominent national personalities have become integrated units. Now no more. Hail India ! Everything is not lost as yet. India lives still.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=33i85AKaq_c&feature=share
The average urban, educated Indian needs to be less frivolous and deeper in both understanding and appreciation of the imperatives of the times, the problems and their possible solutions. Cheap egoism need not be the defining feature of the over-vocal anchors.
33. Too pretentious a person this Harsha Bhogle is. Tries the manner of over-softness to win the friendship of all. Lacks, therefore, in dignity and self-respect as he hides his real self to win his way through the commercial corridors of cricket.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UO-wmU1fceg&feature=share
34. Sugata Bose @ Boria Majumdar : Flatter cricketers of eminence less. That will do you journalistic good. It will also bolster your character. Moreover, the mock serious pretence you put up is too transparent despite its cultural coarseness and can be seen through. Put the game ahead of your personal promotion.
35. The best of prose is in the novel and the best of cricket is in the Test match.
36. T20 isn't cricket. It is commerce garbed as cricket.
37. Boria Majumdar is a trifle too loud, both in real and in figurative terms, which is not the way with well-groomed anchors but unfortunately is what it is with untrained speakers who are perhaps temperamentally unsuited to curbing their conscious or unconscious drive for seeking the limelight. An anchor, however erudite, must have the civility to curb this self-blazoning attribute and concentrate on eliciting the best out of his interviewees. Hence, his role must be that of the soft catalyst and not that of the hard heater that brings chemicals to the boil. Courtesy demands gentleness of speech, greater melody in moderation of a programme and overall a certain delicacy of manner which Majumdar so evidently lacks. Would it were otherwise! Boria's strong grounding in cricketing lore would then have a stellar shine which owing to his overloud style is sadly clouded.
38. Michael Holding is a man of principles today. He abstains from T20 cricket which he deems not cricket. But he was pretty ruthless in his playing days when he bowled 'bodyline' in 1976 at Sabina Park, Kingston against the visiting Indians at the instance of his skipper, the losing Lloyd.
39. Why does Sachin allow the anchor to flatter him as 'the great Sachin Tendulkar'? He is said to be humble. How is it then that he does not resist this unnecessary epithet heaped on him? An address made by an anchor need not always be appended with adjectives that are intended to flatter.
40. Ganguly's citing of statistics is all wrong. His reasoning is flawed as well. Shallow thinker, slipshod, unprepared on data, wandering in references that are patently extraneous and, so, not well worth considering when it comes to comparing Tendulkar with Bradman.
41. Everybody forgets that Azharuddin scored 90 in his fourth Test after hitting three successive centuries in his first three Tests, thus narrowly missing what would otherwise have been a devastatingly difficult record ever to break. (This post is factually incorrect and ought to be ignored. To prevent the comments of friends made below from suffering deletion, especially that of Uttam Ghosh who has pointed out the glaring misinformation presented here, I am not removing the post as such but request all to ignore it.)
[Sugata Bose @Uttam Ghosh I checked it up. It was a queer misconception that I had, obviously some overlapping of image in my memory. I stand corrected. Thanks a lot for helping me out of this incorrect data-feed in my head.]
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Thursday 26 August 2021
PRACTICAL TIPS
PRACTICAL TIPS
1. If you consider someone worthless always, he will lose self-confidence and self-esteem, and in turn gradually be of not much use to himself or to society at large. Encourage others. Help build their self-confidence. They will serve society well. This is the way to nation-building.
Written by Sugata Bose
Tuesday 24 August 2021
WHEN THE DULL GREATS ARE DEEMED WISE
WHEN THE DULL GREATS ARE DEEMED WISE
The cricket bat is brainless but has a fine cricketing brain. How true is that? Same with some of our great batsmen of phenomenal performance on the field and terrible before the microphone. Brainless otherwise, yet apparently possessed with a fine cricketing brain. How true could that be as well? Not Rahul Dravid, though, whose 2011 Bradman Oration proved his credentials as a fine thinker unlike some of his compatriots whose eminence with the bat allows them to run away with the epithet of being brainy, cricket-wise that is, when whenever they open their mouths, they prove themselves to be Shakespeare's Antonio of pretentious wisdom till he opens his mouth as well to prove the Bard right. To sum it up, let it be said that a cricketer of scant merit as a thinker, rational and deep, can hardly be deemed one possessed with a fine cricketing brain. The Indian cricket scene is so full of such pretentious igoramuses that one wishes a redemption from such brazen foolery. Alas, when will our cricketers, past and present, learn to learn more about the great game's history and tradition? When will they learn to be coherent in their understanding, appreciation and expression of such? Alas, when?
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo : Rahul Dravid delivering the Bradman Oration in 2011, a solitary exception to the general rule of Indian cricketers being devoid of deep thinking capacity and rational articulation thereof.
Monday 23 August 2021
একথা, সেকথা, পাঁচকথা
একথা, সেকথা, পাঁচকথা
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যতদিন না আমরা সাধারণ মানুষকে সম্মান করব, উৎসাহিত করব, অনুপ্রাণিত করব আমাদের বাক্যের দ্বারা, ব্যবহারের দ্বারা, যতদিন না এই উচ্চনীচ ভেদাভেদ দূর করব স্বাভাবিক মনুষ্যত্ব বিকাশের দ্বারা, ততদিন আমাদের দেশের মানুষের সামগ্রিক, সার্বিক উন্নয়ন মুখের কথাই হয়ে থেকে যাবে, বাস্তবায়িত হবে না | উপায় আমাদের হাতে | তা অবলম্বন করব কিনা সেটাই হল আসল কথা | গণতন্ত্র তো শুধু সাংবিধানিক, পুঁথিগত তত্ত্ব হয়ে থাকলে চলবে না, তাকে সমাজব্যবহারের দ্বারা বাস্তাবায়িত করতে হবে | তবেই মানুষের শৃঙ্খলমোচন হবে, তবেই সর্বসাধারণের জীবনের মান যথার্থ উন্নীত হবে |
রচয়িতা : Sugata Bose (সুগত বসু)
Sunday 22 August 2021
WE ARE NOT, YET WE ARE
WE ARE NOT, YET WE ARE
This ocean of consciousness there is and we are but waves rising and falling, each one of us at the base being the ocean itself even as we in oblivion feel separated sorrow and bliss. There is no birth, no death, save what we in ignorance choose to thrust on our fictitious beautiful selves, suffering as we trudge on through the vale of tears unto the sunlit summit of our spiritual Self, unto the bosom of fathomless bliss that is ever enfolding us. Let us not fear. Let us not worry. Let us move on, enjoying the passing scenes of this panoramic existence unto the divine destination that awaits us. The ocean holds us in her bosom and the ocean we are. Why fear? There is no death for us, for there is no birth for us as well save in our own fertile imagination. We are the infinite life that sustains all its perishable dreams. We are caught within its web but we are the dreamer, not quite the dream, and, higher still, we are neither the dream nor the dreamer, we are the substance that fruitless lies in self-existent glory. We are not, yet we are.
Written by Sugata Bose
Thursday 12 August 2021
THE IMMODERATE MODERATOR
THE IMMODERATE MODERATOR
The inability to concisely speak and with precision is what afflicts most moderators, spoiling discourse. The tendency to keep on introducing panellists with verbosity for an undue length of time in order to gain personal popularity points from the supposedly appreciative audience, a trend that has infiltrated India as usual from big brother USA, is an irritant that takes the initial steam away from the discussion at hand through inordinate verbal extension. This ought to stop and, in an age of little time and a hectic life when patience on an average is at a premium, such undue elaboration of opening procedure really proves counterproductive in an hour's discussion that inevitably runs into a shortage of time towards the end when the programme has to be unceremoniously ended by scuttling questions from the audience. Would it were that moderators remembered this! It would do their programmes better justice and their profession greater good. After all, such immodesty on their part serves their objective end of achieving success for the programme at hand no good, neither their subjective drive for acquiring approval from the audience any better. Rather, undue wastage of time significantly reduces the quality of the programme both in its irritating initial minutes and at its rushed conclusion with its mockery of a scuttled audience question-time. When habitual like wastage occurs in the intermediate period as well with frequent anchoring into unnecessary stylised verbal garbage, the programme is buried alive by its anchor who is rooted into its destruction by routing it through needless meandering in the woods of words. God bless these moderators with brevity, precision and directness, in short, moderation in anchored manners!
Written by Sugata Bose
Tuesday 10 August 2021
ALL-TIME AUSTRALIA TEST ELEVEN
ALL-TIME AUSTRALIA TEST ELEVEN
1. Victor Trumper
2. Matthew Hayden
3. Don Bradman (captain)
4. Steve Smith
5. Allan Border (vice-captain)
6. Adam Gilchrist (wicket keeper)
7. Alan Davidson
8. Ray Lindwall
9. Shane Warne
10. Bill O'Reilly
11. Dennis Lillee
12th man : Richie Benaud
WHY THIS SELECTION ?
1. Victor Trumper is one of Australia's greatest stylists in batsmanship with a high backlift, scintillating stroke-play and a cricketer with the flavour of the vintage era. An automatic choice keeping history in mind, although, Charles Bannerman, Bill Ponsford and Archie Jackson ran him close for the opening slot.
2. In 'Bradman's Best' Sir Don had selected Arthur Morris to accompany Bill Ponsford. Here, keeping in mind the classical historical evolution of the game, as it is an all-time eleven, Trumper has been given precedence over Ponsford as also otherwise on grounds of better batsmanship from the stylistic perspective. Hayden was till Sir Don's death an abysmal failure in Test cricket in his first stint till 1999 and it was only after the demise of the greatest Australian in 1999 that he came devastatingly good in the tour of India and then never looked back. His Test career record eventually was far better than Arthur Morris and like Morris he was left-handed as well. Equally adept in playing pace on fast tracks and spin in the spinning Indian conditions, Hayden was the perfect partner for the delectable Trumper, although, my personal favourite in Archie Jackson had to be given up purely to keep the right-hand--left-hand combination of the opening pair, so very disconcerting to opposition bowlers. Jackson's was a phenomenal unfructified potential on account of his early death after playing a few Test matches in which he exhilarated crowds with his delightful batsmanship.
3. Well, Bradman, the greatest batsman of all time, was automatic choice. Being nearly twice as good as any other batsman in history and averaging over 100 throughout his career before a last innings duck brought it down tantalizingly close to the hundred mark at 99.94 runs per completed innings, Bradman, who was voted by an international press selection as the greatest athlete of all time in all sporting disciplines, a unique athletic phenomenon that is repeated once out of every million international athletes -- this, following probability calculations -- was just there in his characteristic no. 3 spot to clobber opposition bowling and pulverise his side to prospective victory.
4. Now comes the most contentious position where multiple contenders were beaten to it by Steve Smith on grounds of the most superlative performance by any Australian batsman since Bradman. His Test career record and second-best all-time Test batting average in the world proves the point. Simply forced his way to the no. 4 position ahead of Ponting, Greg Chappell, Charlie Macartney, Neil Harvey, Norman O'Neill, Stan McCabe and the like. Steve Smith's ease at the crease, his footwork, anticipation, positioning before strokeplay and plentiful availability of time in doing so has led to his fabulous success and facilitated his access into the team.
Written by Sugata Bose
Comments :
Sugata Bose @Shirshendu Dey : Wait for my rationale of selection to be complete. Meanwhile, keep suggesting. Amendments may be made to the selection as yet. The list is not final as yet in any way and never will be as imaginary matches will be played between the teams and newer faces brought in to replace failed early choices.
Sugata Bose @Shirshendu Dey : Yes, Morris was Bradman's choice but I have given my rationale for Trumper. Read the essay once more. For left-handed opener I have explained why Hayden has been my choice.
Sugata Bose @Sumit Mukerji : Davidson to lend left-hand variety to the once attack. Border was a better bat than Miller and including him would mean inclusion of a fourth fast bowler with Thomson included, that is, a la West Indies team of the late 70s and the 80s. Border was also more than a handy left arm spinner who could be used to break rolling partnerships and his gutsy, dour batting in tight situations provides the team with the necessary reliability in untoward circumstances from the cricketing perspective. Thomson, yes. On a fast Perth track or Sabina Park, Kingston, the pace attack must include Thomson. Also, Jack Gregory was in contention for Davidson's spot but the left arm factor ruled in the latter's favour.
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ALL-TIME INDIA TEST ELEVEN
ALL-TIME INDIA TEST ELEVEN
1. Vijay Merchant (right hand opening batsman)
2. Sunil Gavaskar (right hand opening batsman -- vice-captain)*
3. Virender Sehwag (right hand batsman, occasional right arm slow bowler)
4. Sachin Tendulkar (right hand batsman, occasional right arm variation bowler)
5. Virat Kohli (right hand batsman - captain)**
6. Vinoo Mankad (all-rounder, opening batsman, left arm orthodox spinner)
7. Farokh Engineer (wicket keeper, right hand middle order batsman/opening batsman)
8. Kapil Dev (all-rounder, right hand batsman, right arm fast medium bowler)
9. Ravichandran Ashwin (all-rounder, right hand batsman, right arm off-spinner)
10. Amar Singh (all-rounder, right arm fast medium)
11. Jasprit Bumrah (right arm fast medium bowler)
12th man : Eknath Solkar
WHY THIS SELECTION?
1. Vijay Merchant was a copy-book batsman of the classical school of British batsmanship. He was highly regarded by no less a legend of the game than Sir Donald Bradman who specifically mentioned about his extremely high first class cricket batting average of over 71 runs per innings, a feature that Sir Don thought could be attributed to surely his excellent batting technique, skill and allied attributes. This particular all-time eleven is scheduled to play all-time elevens of other test playing nations. Hence, the opening pair has to be strong technically which precipitated selection unto the batting virtuoso, Vijay Merchant.
2. Gavaskar with his record against the most fearsome pace attack the cricketing world has seen ever was an automatic choice. He scored 13 test centuries against the West Indies when they dominated world cricket with their fearsome foursome fast bowlers, the battering battery consisting of Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Wayne Daniel, Malcolm Marshall, Sylvester Clarke, Winston Davis, Joel Garner, Keith Boyce, Noriega, Shillingford and Vanburn Holder, to name the fastest among them.
Gavaskar's knowledge of the game, his intelligence, fire in the belly, his uncompromising sense of dignity and national pride, and his ability to rise to the occasion in tough times against all odds make him ideal for vice-captaincy. His slight defensiveness in mental attitude relative to Kohli loses him the captaincy of the team.
3. The most destructive batsman of all time, Sehwag at one down can rip up the opposition attack. Equally devastating against pace and spin, and with his nonchalant approach to the game, he was the automatic choice for the no. 3 spot. With his rapid rate of scoring and scant respect for reputation of bowlers, Sehwag's unbelievable hand-eye coordination makes him a nightmare for bowlers and the perfect match-winner under any condition barring the sticky wicket post a shower in those days when pitches used to remain uncovered. But the present set of matches will all be played under present-day conditions of covered pitches during rainfall.
4. Tendulkar. What more can I say than to call him God's ultimate gift to Indian cricket, the acme of batting perfection and any team's automatic choice at no. 4? With his breathtaking array of strokes, perfect middling of the ball every time that makes even Sir Don's 254 of perfected like middling at Lord's in 1930 look commonplace, Tendulkar is peerless in this position and needs no further rationalisation to justify his selection.
5. Virat Kohli has edged past the likes of Rahul Dravid, V.V.S. Laxman, Dilip Sardesai, Polly Umrigar and Vijay Manjrekar by his sheer professional attitude to cricket, his insatiable appetite for runs, his almost Olympian fitness and the killer instinct that so distinguishes him. He already has 70 international centuries to his credit and a 50 plus average in all three formats of the game which surely distinguish him as a remarkable batsman of singular abilities, adaptability, aspiration and appetite. Hence, he makes his way into the team at no. 5.
Virat Kohli's intelligence, aggression, focus and fitness, coupled with his decisiveness, insatiable appetite for victory under all circumstances, self-respect, leadership qualities and, simply, fire in the belly that enlivens a team even under difficult conditions make him the automatic choice for captaining a team that aspires to beat the best of the rest of the world.
6. Vinoo Mankad many old-timers consider as our greatest all-rounder of all time, even better than the flamboyant Kapil Dev. He was an opening batsman, a position in which he scored two double hundreds, a word-record opening partnership in Test matches with Pankaj Roy of 413, and he held the record for India's highest individual Test score of 231 for decades before Gavaskar broke it with his 236 not out against the touring West Indies in Madras in the 1983-84 home series. Mankad's superlative all-round skills were on display in the Lord's Test of 1952 which has come to be called 'Mankad's Test'. His left arm orthodox spin was world-class and for all this he was an automatic choice at no. 6 where with Engineer to follow, he is ready to face the second new ball in a long innings for India.
7. Farokh Engineer pipped past Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Syed Kirmani, P. Sen and some others purely on grounds of his experience in keeping efficiently to both spin and pace in English County Cricket and by dint of his quick run-getting. He batted with flamboyance and flair against both spin and pace, in overcast English swinging conditions and in the subcontinent's tropical heat on turning tracks. Having quite often opened the innings for India with dazzling brilliance, Engineer would provide the perfect partner for Mankad in taking on the second new ball in a long Indian innings.
8.
Written by Sugata Bose
Comments :
Sugata Bose @ Sumit Mukerji : You are right. But Md. Nissar chose to settle in Pakistan post-Partition. Hence. Yes, Vishwanath is an option that I got past on account of Kohli's greater appetite for runs and capacity for achieving it. However, it's a tricky issue, this particular selection. Thanks for your valuable suggestions.
Sugata Bose @Sumit Mukerji : Amar Singh has replaced Lala Amarnath. Vishwanath is not there in the team, though, Kohli is. Yes, Hazare I considered but his batting would be too slow to win matches, the same reason why Dravid was left out.
Sugata Bose @ Sushanta Banerjee : You have thankfully included Vinoo Mankad in your team. Most people have forgotten him altogether. Media focus in India is only on current greats. Strange, indeed, but perhaps, a reflection on Indian intellectual impoverishment of the times. To my mind, he was our only other great all-rounder besides Kapil Dev and in many old-timer's estimation he was even better than the Haryanvi of indisputable brilliance both with bat and ball. After all, Vinoo Mankad had the technical soundness to open the innings. Have we forgotten 'Mankad's Test' in England when he performed alone like an entire team with bat and ball? He was our first professional player as well, our first export to English County Cricket and for decades the world record holder for the highest opening partnership in Test cricket of 413 runs with Pankaj Roy before their record got inevitably eclipsed.
Sugata Bose @Naveena CK : Speed of scoring, so very essential to winning Test matches, was the factor that was considered by me in the selection. Here Kohli has a definite edge over Dravid.
Sugata Bose @Naveena CK : Not really. This team is a general one. There will be a bench strength to draw from for specific wickets. Good observation, though.
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Monday 9 August 2021
WHEN MEDALS ARE MISSED BECAUSE OF CALLOUS SPORTS MANAGEMENT
WHEN MEDALS ARE MISSED BECAUSE OF CALLOUS SPORTS MANAGEMENT
Golfer Aditi Ashok revealed a rather sad fact. She was provided accommodation about one and a half hour drive from the Olympic village by the Indian Olympic authorities. On the penultimate day a typhoon alarm interrupted golfing and the final round was scheduled for the last day of the Games. Being located so far from the Olympic village and having an early morning schedule, Aditi had to wake up at three in the morning, take an unusually early breakfast and had to then report at the golf course on time. Such an unsettling schedule certainly affected her performance and it could have been avoided by better accommodation arranged for her by the concerned Indian Sports authority as was done by its US counterpart. The eventual gold medallist, Nelly Korda from USA, was housed just two minutes away from the golf course. This often makes all the difference in high-level sports, Aditi Ashok said. She pointed this out not as an excuse for her failure to win a medal after being in second position behind Nelly Korda till the penultimate day but as a lacuna in Indian sports management which so often thwart Indian competitors from having a better shot at the Olympic medals. One more thing she said. The Indian Olympic federation gave her a sum of money for her training barely sixty days before the #Tokyo2020 #Olympics, only after she had qualified for the Games. But it was too late a monetary grant and she could not put it to any use due to paucity of preparation time. Help should have been provided much earlier if any fruitful utilisation was to be made of it.
It was sad to hear these from an athlete who with better facilities could have struck gold this time, perhaps. Alas, that was not to be ! Meanwhile, chaos in the name of euphoria continues to reign post Neeraj Chopra's javelin gold and it does not seem that India has quite woken up to a rational understanding of things regarding how she may produce consistently better results each time at the Olympic Games. As Mahesh Bhupathi succinctly put it that bad sports management and politics in federations would continue to be the Achilles heel in Indian sports for the foreseeable future and that it was private philanthropy by organisations such as the 'Olympic Gold Quest' and the like, and not the Government, which had been of any real help for sportspersons in the past. Bishen Singh Bedi, when asked, attributed solitary successes in Indian sports here and there to Providence and not to any concerted governmental effort.
Despite the hullabaloo, the general euphoria over the #Tokyo2020 achievements and our high future hopes, these experts seem to have summed up India's sporting fate that awaits her in the future. Will it be any better then in the years ahead or will the inertia of mass national sporting failure continue? I, for one, am rather pessimistic about it all and that too in a rather realistic way. By the way, what was the Prime Minister's looming poster that dwarfed the combined size of the posters of the Olympic medallists doing at the post-return Tokyo felicitation stage? There you see how political capital is made even out of sporting achievement even as the nation's sporting future is casually cast to the four winds to perish. Now, do not say that whatever help the Government has given was great almsgiving after all. Athletes need none such. They have a legitimate right to such grants and the Government is doing them no great favour in any way. Whose money is it after all?
Written by Sugata Bose
A RETURN GIFT
A RETURN GIFT
As a young athlete training to maturity, Saikhom Mirabai Chanu was too poor to afford conveyance to the Sports Complex which was far off from her house. She used to plead for a lift from passing truck drivers along the highway. They obliged and for years carried her to the stadium and in effect to India's silver glory at #Tokyo2020. Chanu has honoured 150 truck drivers with gifts and thanksgiving at her residence on her return from Tokyo.
Written by Sugata Bose
Thursday 5 August 2021
IN PENSIVE MOOD
IN PENSIVE MOOD
My life has literally gone in vain. I feel sorry that my country does not need my services. What a waste of human resource! Ours is a rotting polity. It will yet take a couple of generations to dispel the darkness that so envelopes us. Base imitation of the West, blind copying of its decadent and superficial culture while neglecting to absorb its higher elements in rational enlightenment so characterises us that it is depressing, to say the least. We are going down day by day as a nation while the privileged have their share of shallow sensory satisfaction and the impoverished dream of doing so one day should they be spared a moment from their arduous labour to reflect on their aspirations that lie unfulfilled. A people we are but hardly a nation. We are yet to learn combination that lends a country power. Jealously guarding self-interest instead of zealously striving for collective well-being, we are being drawn every moment into the quicksand of an infirm civilisation.
Written by Sugata Bose
THE NEED TO RATIONALISE THE NATION BEFORE REAL RESULTS SHOW UP AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES
THE NEED TO RATIONALISE THE NATION BEFORE REAL RESULTS SHOW UP AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES
Our country must be rationalised. Unless we are clear in our thinking, we will continue to be outwitted by our opponents from other countries in international meets. There is too much of crass commercialisation of our social culture which is evident on media, specially television.
Our athletes, along with training in their respective sporting disciplines, must be given rigorous academic training to help them emerge top class performers. Abhinav Bindra won gold in the Beijing Olympics in 2008. He did so not merely through shooting skill but through a host of allied regimen that he followed, not the least of which was mental training and concentration practice. Olympic gold medallists are not born, according to him. They have to be groomed to becoming such.
The right environment is lacking in India where sloppiness of thinking, mass hysteria, chaotic behaviour and irrational expectations rule the roost. The film world and the world of commercial advertisement today run amock in the polity with stupidity and distraction compounded into a debilitating drug that is adversely conditioning the people. Cinema and commercial communication must change to rational, real terms so that their poison does not spread and destroy the mass thought system.
Our celebrations are wild, our nervous excitation overmuch and our commitment in the overall sense deficient. We need to look into these things and make the necessary adjustments. Only then we may emerge as a strong sporting nation and perform like real champions at the highest level. And, just in case you forget, real champions win gold medals at the #Olympics and are not each time somehow thwarted in doing so.
Written by Sugata Bose
HOW LONG MORE AS STOOPING MEN MUST YOU REMAIN, O GODS WHO OUGHT TO RISE TO SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS ?
HOW LONG MORE AS STOOPING MEN MUST YOU REMAIN, O GODS WHO OUGHT TO RISE TO SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS ?
Affirm your divinity. If necessary, be for a while an atheist to find your rational bearings. Be a heretic. Revolt against the domination of authority, hierarchical supremacy, and assert your own individuality, but never trespassing on others' like rights to express themselves. Do not have to bow down and prostrate before so-called spiritual men and sell your self-dignity thus. Bow down before the one that bows down before you. Say 'Pranam, Maharaj' to the monastic who gives you like reverence as householder God. Thus, through purity and study, through concentration and contemplation, through service and sacrifice, build your personality. Then realisation is yours, 'karaamalakavat' (even as the 'amalaki' fruit in your palm). Awake, arise and stoop not to spirituality. Rather rise to your Self-effulgence.
Written by Sugata Bose
ARE WE FORGETTING SRI RAMAKRISHNA AND HIS MISSION ON EARTH ? HAVE WE STARTED SELLING HIM AFTER ALL ?
ARE WE FORGETTING SRI RAMAKRISHNA AND HIS MISSION ON EARTH ? HAVE WE STARTED SELLING HIM AFTER ALL ?
Amidst the terrible degeneracy of the times there is work to do. Character, which is missing even among many a monastic, must be reaffirmed in full blaze. Else, our highest spiritual tradition will fall into disarray at the hands of its current guardians who seem to have lost their moorings in the spiritual life. Propagation of spirituality has now become a commercial cause that has a million lame supporters who, in offering such sustenance in decadence, do grave damage to monastics and their mother organisation. Sycophancy is not devotion. It is rather its antithesis. Those who today blindly support decadent commercialisation of what is being passed off as spiritual culture, do such proponents of perverse piety grave harm. Devotees, be discriminating enough to see that the Master's Mission does not go the wrong way as it in places seems eminently headed for. This is a charge all of you must be spontaneously willing to bear.
Written by Sugata Bose
HARMONY WITH NATURE OR INTEGRATION BEYOND IT?
HARMONY WITH NATURE OR INTEGRATION BEYOND IT?
How hard it is to hamonise with Nature. Perhaps, we need to seek a deeper synthesis. But is such a synthesis possible after all? Perhaps, it will be presumptuous to imagine that the surface of Nature converges within to a definite unitary endpoint. It could equally be a greater divergence of a particulate breadth where such elementary synthesis is rendered invalid. In physics we know of electronic uncertainty and particulate chaos. What seems to be deterministic at the phenomenal surface of things, in what we term the macroscopic world, progressively becomes probabilistic in the elementary inside of things, in the macrocosm of the nucleus. The broad laws of physics operating in the large-scale structure of the universe, though causal, have their complementary little laws in the subatomic world which are entirely non-causal. These little laws then may no more be termed laws but are aspects of observation which alter contours and colours with the change in the observer or the observation. What heavy masses can resist, little masses fail to do. Tiny particles respond to optical irradiation to be randomized in their velocities, making prediction of future position or state with any degree of accuracy impossible, beyond what the bounds of probabilty allow. How this transition, from the certitude of causality to the uncertainty of the elementary particle, takes place, has not been possible to define. There is an unbridged chasm between the large and the little of the universe and here lies the impasse of modern physics which has not yet been resolved. The Unified Field Theory, the Theory of Everything, the Super-string Theory and the like have not been able to provide as yet a coherent explanation of phenomena. Thus, to go back to the beginning where this piece began, harmony of the elements of Nature seems to be not feasible, neither living in harmony with Nature possible, for all things born in Nature, persist in Nature for a while before they perish in the icy chill of natural death. A harmonic living with Nature is, thus, a contradiction in terms, for natural elements are ever in a disequilibrium and forever seeking equilibrium without ever attaining it.
The sensory universe is dependent on the senses even as senses arise out of the universe and with the universe as a queer complement of the latter. The attributes assigned by the mind to what it cognizes as the universe, spring from it, making the universe a derivative of the mind even as the mind may be posited as a counter-derivative of a Cosmic Mind if one such exists s such. This dependent knowledge, this sensory perception, this entangled relative existence of Matter and Mind makes clear conception of existential reality within the realm of Nature impossible . The mind moves, the senses shift and matter changes in attributes with it. All knowing becomes relative, partial, all understanding fractured as Reality eludes comprehension. The Unknown remains unknowable as Nataraja's Dance delights, deceives and deludes. So says Shankaracharya, "Anirvachaniya Maya." [Phenomena is inexplicable in verbal terms.] Swamiji says, "Give up." If harmony in Nature is impossible, harmonic living with Nature is impossible as well. The call, thus, is to renounce, not just parts of Nature to suit convenience but the whole of it to extinction. That should imply dissolution of the individual ego and the personal identity as well to explore and discover where the harmony lies beyond the senses in a possible integrated solidarity of fundamental existence or in a nothingness that is or is not.
Written by Sugata Bose
YOU AND YOUR STORY -- A DELIGHTFUL DELUSION
YOU AND YOUR STORY -- A DELIGHTFUL DELUSION, A DAILY DISTRACTION
Be not deluded by your good looks and your likeness posted as your story on a daily basis. These are perishable dreams, flimsy images on the water of life, names writ on it that will merge into nothingness soon. Awake! Achieve something real for your country! Looks are least likely to carry you through to laurels, to anything substantial in life. And if they do, shame unto such an audience that gives so much credence to it! Hence, cast off this adulation of your body and do not make yourself a public spectacle of little value beyond that fragile form, for you are far more than that, far worthier than you can think of. Hence, awake, I say, awake!
Written by Sugata Bose
THE SUN SHINES IN LUNAR BEAMS
THE SUN SHINES IN LUNAR BEAMS
We yet again miss gold. But congratulations, Ravi Kumar Dahiya! You have done your parents proud, your nation proud and yourself proud, too. Your silver in silvery lunar beams will shine in the hearts of true lovers of sports but, soon, very soon, after the hullabaloo of the hour centring you is over and the television channels and media houses have had their measure of you and their share of milk squeezed from the commercial udder of the commoner, you will be forgotten like your predecessor, K.D.Jadhav, who won bronze in the Helsinki Olympics in 1952 and was later forgotten to die in penury.
Enjoy the hour, my champion, today, for it is the only day reserved for you. Tomorrow it will be Virat Kohli's again. Ours is a sporting nation after all. It gives equal importance to all sports. Our government is extremely caring, our media houses most impartial in reporting events, our film stars the most sacrificing souls we give birth to and our cricketers the most ascetic souls who keep clear of cinematic nonsense entirely during their playing careers.
Son, you have come a long way and you have a long way to go yet. Do not believe in media hype, do not give in to the frivolities of your countrymen but do belong to the commoner who cries in exultation at your success. Do not feel overjoyed at the Prime Minister's tweet or buoyed by the Sports Minister's posing with you. Their's are the ephemeral associations of the hour, communications of convenience and, yes, the commercial culture of seeking to satiate shallow self-interest. Be not taken in by these but go back to your farmer father who feeds the nation and fed you with fruits and milk each day, carrying the tiffin miles to your training centre, your akhaaraa.
God bless you, my son, Ravi Kumar! You are indeed, the son of the sun, and shine in stellar splendour, though you, like the beautiful moon, reflect solar glory across the vast stretch of common consciousness of your countrymen today. Glory unto you and glory, twice, thrice as much glory unto your father and mother! May your coaches be blessed and your simple village folk who so endearingly love you! May you yet win many more laurels for our motherland!
Written by Sugata Bose
EGO -- WHY WE HOLD ON TO IT, WHY WE GIVE IT UP
EGO -- WHY WE HOLD ON TO IT, WHY WE GIVE IT UP
From insentience comes cognition of one's individuality, one's identity as a being, as a person. Hence, one clings to the ego and can scarce give it up. But as one expands in consciousness through experience, achievement, excellence and a greater renunciation of all such vanity towards the end of evolution, one casts off the ego like so much dross of no intrinsic value. Then one proceeds towards perfection of the Absolute Being that is one's status in phenomenal dissolution.
Written by Sugata Bose
CITIZENS, WAKE UP !
CITIZENS, WAKE UP !
We need to have a sense of proportion when we rejoice over our feeble achievements at the #Tokyo2020 #Olympics. We ought not to forget that we are the second-most populous country in the world and with our resources, both in material terms and human terms, we ought to be right at the top of the medals' tally which we are not. We are languishing in the 66th position and making history indeed with our delectable wins. This is no damning of the sterling achievements of individual athletes in solo performances or in concerted team effort but is a reality check on us overall as a nation of little commitment and easy contentment, the standard behaviour of the darkened consciousness in inertial animal acceptance of fate. Our athletes who have done us proud and do us so every time, do so despite the terrible national constraints they face in terms of lack of adequate governmental support, lack of world-class sporting infrastructure and a surfeit of crass commercialism going by national culture today. The irrational hyperexcitation that goes on in the national social environment, the never-ending frivolity, the low-quality cinematic culture that has permeated civic consciousness and is degenerating the polity, and the abysmal sell-out of our social culture to commerce have reduced us to a nation of irresponsible traders with scant respect for either learning or excellence in any worthwhile endeavour that does not yield immediate pecuniary profit. In such an atmosphere sporting excellence is an impossibility. Individuals overcome these constraints through self-genius and determined effort but nationally we are a far cry from perfection. Our very attitude in laxity, an indolent easy contentment, and vain excitation coupled with commercial craving of a lowly sort do not make us out in the comity of nations as a self-respecting nation worth the call.
The world will disrespect us if we do not wake up to self-respect ourselves. We became a Dominion in 1947 and a Republic in 1950. China became a Republic in 1949. Look at the difference in national attitude and achievement of the two countries. China first prepared for the Olympics from 1949 to 1980 before they participated for the first time in it in the Moscow Olympics of 1980. In their initial stint they won 5 gold medals and have never looked back, going from strength to strength with every Olympic Games. And we? Simply rejoicing? Mere profit-making and exploitation of the people do not make a nation. Citizens, wake up!
Written by Sugata Bose
STRANGE, IS IT NOT
STRANGE, IS IT NOT ?
As China continues to pick up a string of gold medals and dominate proceedings at the #Tokyo2020 #Olympics, we continue to rejoice over a few medals (1 silver and 3 bronze) won that continue to prove that we are a defeated nation but not dead as yet. Individuals shine and fail to shine but we participate in spirit, nonetheless, in a wide variety of events and extend our charitable spirit to each. Our rejoicing over 'historic' wins and easy acceptance of 'historic' losses continue to characterise us as an easily contented nation with not much of a spirit of resistance in us that will impel us to hang our heads in shame when we so poorly perform every time at the Olympic Games. It is a queer national self-oblivion to be thus cast in the mould of defeat and to rejoice over it. Strange indeed are the ways of the Lord, the God of India's destiny.
Written by Sugata Bose
Wednesday 4 August 2021
AWAKE INDIA
AWAKE INDIA
We need to develop constancy in our country. Steady, unwavering concentration, determined effort and unbending will are the sine qua non for national success in every field. And a sense of purpose and perfection, too. Zealous service to the motherland demands individual cultivation of talent and national nurturing of such. Only then will we come off with flying colours in the international arena, be it in science, literature, art, music, philosophy or sports. God bless us! God bless India! May the God in us, the citizens of India, awake!
Written by Sugata Bose
THE RISE OF THE AVATAR
THE RISE OF THE AVATAR
The rise of the Avatar is the reaction to imbalance of the psychological forces of humanity tending to chaos. It is the restoring force that settles order into society and then withdraws for the forces to play out their due roles till energy dissipation to utter decadence once more causes a future rise.
NOR DESCENT NOR ASCENT, SIMPLY AN ARRIVAL
The Avatar is born from the ocean of humanity, from the sea of possibilities, the potentialities of the Cosmic Mind. It is neither a descent in the vertically-down sense from the skies nor an ascent in the vertically-up sense from the sea of causation but is an arrival onto the human plane to enact the adjustment play, the drama of divine deeds that sets the balance of forces right. The direction up or down are all terrestrial, geographical, human, and make no sense in spatial terms that know neither the up nor the down of it. It is a descent in the sense that the Avatar is free and does not have to rise to scale the summit of Self-realisation. His is a descent from the divine realm which is spiritually higher, so to say, unto the human plane which is spiritually lower relatively. Hence, descent.
UNTO THEE, O MAN, RESTS THY FATE
But the Avatar can merely open up fresh channels unto the Divine and no more. Humanity will still have to work out its karma to arrive at a higher order of evolution. It is diligence all the way. Let there be no superstition about it. We are to carve out our own destiny. No one else, not even an Avatar, can do it for us. Humanity must work out its own destiny. Upon human labour and discrimination lies human salvation.
Written by Sugata Bose
Tuesday 3 August 2021
THE BIG FIVE
THE BIG FIVE
The Belur school of thinking, the Shantiniketan school of thinking, the Pondicherry school of thinking and the Sabarmati school of thinking have dominated the Indian thought landscape. And now the Nagpur school of thinking. The five schools are in contention for steering the national course. Which one will eventually prevail? Are these five schools contradisposed to each other or are they in a broader harmony?
Written by Sugata Bose
REJOICING OVER LESS THAN PERFECTION
REJOICING OVER LESS THAN PERFECTION
Indian athletes should mourn a silver or a bronze medal and never rejoice an achievement short of winning the gold. That is the recipe for the ultimate future success at the Olympics as Abhinav Bindra alone has shown through his tireless striving for perfection at his trade and its manifest demonstration in the Beijing #Olympics, 2008. Silver or bronze are commendable achievements but a nation forever falling short of perfection in any endeavour, not merely sports, does not thus do credit to itself.
Written by Sugata Bose
OUT OF THE WOMB OF TIME THE NATION EMERGES
OUT OF THE WOMB OF TIME THE NATION EMERGES
National calmness must be achieved. Large numbers of people must meditate deeply to bring about this general calm in society. Right now there is too much of frivolity, too great a boisterousness that is not conducive to creative output or excellence in endeavours, whatever they may be.
The national mind must be integrated, held concentrated and creative, and wasteful activity must be eschewed. Only when large numbers of citizens take to becoming deep individuals can this country rise to eminence again.
This frivolous mode of the urban national mind must be replaced with a serious concern for our country's advancement in every field. This stupid cinematic culture, decadent and putrid, must give way to a fresh affirmation of the latent potentialities of the country.
Indeed, it is dark today but we will come through it as the coming generations will not tolerate such arrant nonsense coming from the Mumbai and Chennai film industries and going by the name of national culture. These film personalities, who are wrongly assumed as icons, will be cut to size as the emerging nation assumes its true characteristics en route to creative affirmation of its rising cultural status. Mass education and a rising quality of it will dispel current national delusions in frivolous delight and instil greater commitment in the citizenry to build a new, vibrant India.
India is not yet dead. Her life-story has yet not been written full. Some chapters are about to unfold. Others are gestating in the womb of the future, to arrive on earth at the appropriate hour. But the wait shall not be long. The generations are being born. They shall transform society.
Written by Sugata Bose
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