FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE COMMENTS ... 1

FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE COMMENTS ... 1

Sugata Bose @Rohan Gavaskar : Indeed you are, Sunny's son. Do carry on the grand tradition of serving the country with as much pride as your father and even more for you are a generation ahead in time and organic evolution. @rohangava9

Sugata Bose @Deepanjan Mitra : Brilliant. What an articulate observation and in what a delectable style! Bravo!

Sugata Bose @Avi Dey : Avi Dey, I do speak the language a deal better than the one dished out by the said person here. You have been privy to the diction here but not to mine. Hence, your observation is shorn of rational justification.

SugataBose @klu android  This is such a dumb observation. Ought I to respond to it beyond this?

Sugata Bose @YouTube : Jaggi is the name, not Sadhguru. The latter one is a misnomer. Gurus are enlightened by definition but this Sadhguru is neither enlightened nor even honest. He keeps giving verbal gibberish. What a lambasting Vasudev is getting from Javed Akhtar ! A thoroughly deserved one. These fraudsters are destroying India. Here Javed Akhtar has literally cornered Vasudev. The fake Guru is crushed. But such is the shamelessness of this clever crook that he keeps on practising his articulate crookedness. This Jaggi is simply no match for Javed Akhtar. The script-writer is scripting impromptu dialogues for himself and pulling the carpet from beneath the feet of the fake one. What a way to get exposed! Had Jaggi even an inkling of what was to befall him in this conversation he would have desisted from attending it. He has woefully fallen short on his memory of basic rational principles which one would imagine must be a prerequisite for survival in an argumentative conversation with a rationalist. The result is absolute annihilation, a horrible humiliation at the hands of an intrepid rationalist who creatively bamboozles every foolish semblance of an argument put up by this hoax of a man. Swami Vivekananda had categorically warned humanity about these 'Gurus' who compromise religion with worldliness as these Sadhgurus and Shree Shree Ravi Shankars are doing. So, beware! Study Vivekananda and expose these nefarious elements within our society.

Sugata Bose @YouTube : Young man, you are too good. What a humorous humiliation in exposure of the core truth about this fraudster you have brought about! Bravo! Carry on, doc!

Sugata Bose @YouTube : Bedi's analogy of the doosra in social terms is extraneous to the cricketing discussion. This name was incidental in it having had its origin in Pakistan when Saqlain Mushtaq invented this delivery. So, the question of marital morals being brought in here is not only inappropriate but irrelevant.

Sugata Bose @YouTube : Disgusting interviewer, insensitive and irresponsible. Somehow must arrive at a decadent spot in the conversation to score some TRP. Deliberately drawing Viv Richards to discussing the inadvertent racist comment by Tony Greig in 1976 which has been talked about in the past decades umpteen number of times and was totally uncalled for here. Instead of discussing the finer points of batting and the game's history in the Caribbean, the interviewer must necessarily harp on ulcers from the past. Shows the paucity of genuine interest in the game in India as opposed to the madness otherwise evident in shallower terms. It is a pity that we as a nation have sunk so low as to make commerce the dominant feature in our national life and that too in a most frothy, unrefined way. This simply is not cricket.

Sugata Bose @YouTube : Rajdeep Sardesai goes on and on with his incoherent talk, drifting from one superficial subject to another in a never-ending monologue. Here Bedi speaks about it. Elsewhere Nasser Hussain has pointed it out. Rajdeep ought to be cognisant of the delay and dilution he creates in the discussion with his seemingly endless soliloquies.

Sugata Bose @'The Autobiography of a Yogi' is the biggest compilation of lyrical lies. This Sadhguru who cites from it and yet pretends that he has personally met that Himalayan yogi, Balaji Maharaj, is the biggest fraud in a long line of fraudsters who have labelled themselves as yogis. This one is the worst fraud, though.

Babaji is a well-crafted, elaborate myth, the perfect instrument of mass delusion. He does not exist in the way he is portrayed to be.

Badguru needs to brush up on his character. His lies are stinking. Such masks of men are ruining India with help from the crafty, corrupt capitalists, the unholy allies of politicians and others of a crass kind.

Agreed that God is everywhere but then where is 'everywhere'? In God? So, how is the deadlock of this location logic to be resolved?

Sugata Bose @YouTube : Jaggi is not a good man, leave aside being a godman. He is a hoax of a human being with little honesty and a great deal of pretence, a hoodwinker wholesale and one who is a sham, a shame of a man.

Sugata Bose @Gourkishore Mahanti : Thank you for being one who read at last. My posts go abegging most of the time. Alas, the intellectual climate in our country is abysmal! But just a clarification in case you have mistaken me to be the historian Sugata Bose of the lineage of Sarat Chandra Bose which I am eminently not. I belong to more humble lineage but proudly so and am in no way connected by bond of blood or otherwise to the extended family of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. And God bless me for that!

Sugata Bose @Gourkishore Mahanti : Do read the lot of it, the above comment by way of self-identification in an age of gross miscarriage of such. 

Sugata Bose @Goutam Bose : But the followers of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda must also follow properly and not merely in terms of token devotion, verbal affirmation and passive piety. Strength is to be manifested and not abject slavery to the renounced out of a terrible weakness of character. Another area is that of communication where we terribly lack, our refusal to recognise one another's talent and the needless envy that it implies if even in a subconscious sense. The polity needs solidarity and that is possible through mutual understanding and service, the least of which ought to be mutual recognition.

Sugata Bose @Riya Bhattacharya : You have a glittering collection of cricketing posts on your profile. Quite an outstanding lot. Inspirational, to say the least. Looking forward to more. Hope others will take the cue from you and post likewise as well.

Sugata Bose @Nandita Halder : Swami Pranavanandaji was a massive powerhouse of spirituality, Shiva incarnate. Highly inspirational figure.

Sugata Bose @Anirban Roy Choudhoury :  Then read (Swamiji) and resist rogue Gurus, charlatans who are despoiling the common man.

Sugata Bose @Vandana Agrawal Jain : Help me fight the corruption that is pervasive in the name of fake spirituality.

Sugata Bose @Gourkishore Mahanti : 'The Way of All Flesh' has been tried but to no avail. Now the Way of the Spirit is left as the residual resort. So, you are right.

Sugata Bose @Swami Nikhileshwarananda : Vivekananda must be preached prolifically to combat the perfidious designs of charlatans who are capturing public imagination and directing sociospiritual discourse along the reverse channel of worldliness whose prime beneficiaries are they themselves. It is the urgent necessity of the times that monks of the Ramakrishna Mission take to propagating Swamiji's message vigorously without any attempt to gain name, fame and recognition for their own selves in the process. If anything accrues by way of social acceptance of the monk by Thakur's will, be it so. But self-propagation will ruin it all. The Holy Trinity must be paramount and not the carrier of their charge.

Sugata Bose @Aabir Chattaraj : But how will that be effected? And why so? Moreover, will the ordinary person be able to distinguish between the Master and his Mission?

Sugata Bose @Aabir Chattaraj : I understand now what you implied earlier. Thank you for being forthright in your assertion and unequivocally so.

Sugata Bose @Sandip Dalal : I do not know him. Hence, I have no idea or opinion about him. But you respect him. And I respect that.

Sugata Bose @Bhaskar Mukherjee : Aabir Chattaraj, how about defending your aforestated words? It will be interesting reading and we can have a lively discussion on it. At any rate it is always good to examine an untouched issue from an unforeseen angle. What do you say?

Sugata Bose @Bhaskar Mukherjee : That is the sad part of it. As Swamiji used to say, the fly sits ever on the ulcer leaving the healthy part of the body alone. So it is with the common commentator. About my boldness not even my worst enemies -- if there be any -- will doubt my credentials on that for I have always been forthright in my articulation, criticism and open opinion on issues which I find others ducking out of their own specific compulsions. My copious observations night and day give vent to my thoughts -- for I have never been a fence-sitter-- and they are there for all to read by way of first-hand reaction and response to comments thereafter, although, I seldom do so in the comment stream of the posts proper for I do remain awfully busy writing fresh posts all the time. Hence.

Sugata Bose @Bhaskar Mukherjee : There goes ahead of me my affability for you. Only that yours is friendly criticism as dessert for me. Quite a desert really otherwise.

Sugata Bose @Dhyan Maneesha : This is an actual event that occurred. No prejudice whatsoever. He was quite an original thinker of sorts. But spirituality? Well, that's quite another thing altogether.

Sugata Bose @Dhyan Maneesha : Indeed, I have never been there but have read and heard a lot about what went on there etc. I will read more about him (Osho) and his books as well. Thanks for the suggestion.

Sugata Bose @Dhyan Maneesha : But I am not the historian Sugata Bose, I hope you know.

Sugata Bose @Bhaskar Mukherjee : You have not even understood that the person being referred to here is Jaggi Vasudev about whom Balabhadranandaji said in no certain terms what he did by a solitary barb of a comment in Bengali whose English has been presented here. Your understanding and observation in this context has entirely misfired here as necessarily it must when a post is not well brooded upon to understand its intent and then only duly commented upon. However, that is what flimsy engagement in social media is all about where people swoop down on a post like the proverbial kite and scoop up a mouthful in a single snatch or spill the dish in a deliberate dash that leaves the 'postman' with not a trace of his letter. Superficial indeed are the ways of the industrially indented world of today and fruitlessly frothy the resolutions thereof. Long ago Bertrand Russell had famously said that few read for information and that most read for confirmation of their biases and prejudices. So too are my posts ever misread as 'men choose to interpret things after their own fashion' and care not to look into the original intent of a post. No wonder human evolution is so slow for organic matter inherently retards reaction and slow response ever takes place along the grain of prior habitual practices. Godspeed, nonetheless, to all as men trudge through the vale of sorrow and tears to the sunlit summit of Self-realisation !

Sugata Bose @Jacob M G : PM appearing in Indian clothes at the White House unlike Bharat Ratna Tendulkar always donning the European suit when making public appearances, a thing that the cricketing icon could learn from his political counterpart.

Sugata Bose @Swami Suvirananda on YouTube : The language ought to be colloquial for better effect. Undue Sankritisation was not to Swamiji's liking. The speaker's style of speaking is archaic, artificial and unappealing.

Sugata Bose @Ananya Mukherjee : Lovely! Wish you health, happiness and creative inspiration to keep pursuing your art and, so, helping to preserve the rich literary tradition of the ages that is dwindling by the day the world over in our times of crass commercial culture, impatient, instant information-gathering and surface-reading tending to lowered literary appreciation. Your book will be well received, so remains my sincere wish for it and for the authoress who has breathed life into it.

Sugata Bose @Ananya Mukherjee : A word, perhaps unwarranted here but nonetheless I thought I ought to say by way of helping you avoid mistaking me for the Harvard historian, Prof. Sugata Bose, in case, like so many others over the past decade on Facebook, a misapprehension you happen to fall into. I am not he but am of more humble kin who has sincerely wished you what I did wish and every word of it shall come true, may Sri Ramakrishna bless you so!

Sugata Bose @Swami Nikhileswarananda : Mask should be up. Photo op can take backseat, COVID caution cannot. Moreover, the safe distance of 2 m is hardly on. Proximity can promote the virus. Sad lack of awareness for a monk. Not much spoken about the Minister for Climate Change as he evidently is unconscious about his basic COVID duties and, you, Maharaj, are blissfully oblivious of it, too.  How do you propose to change society by bringing awareness in it when you yourself are so unaware?

Sugata Bose @Ananya Mukherjee : What a lovely style of writing! You are gifted, indeed. No wonder you author books. God bless you!

Sugata Bose @Ananya Mukherjee : How beautifully you write! Sheer music!

Sugata Bose @Ananya Mukherjee : Too good. It's a delight to read you. So fresh, replete with cross-lingual humour. A cross day online has in your write-ups a ready cure. Keep writing and we keep reading. No kidding really, it's a refreshing style, quite unique in my rather limited exposure to literature these days.

And I beg your forgiveness. In my joy of reading I quite forgot to wish you on your marriage anniversary. Happy anniversary, not in mere verbal terms but from the very heart for one who deserves every bit of it for she brings so much of it to others! May you be preserved by Mother and may you keep writing! After a long, long time I have come across such music in prose, simple, pure, free-flowing like a dainty, dancing brook and yet without a trace of affectation as most writing tends to be tainted with. God bless you both with perfect health, happiness and a consciousness that sustains you through life! Write. Do not ever be discouraged in this sublime exercise of your faculties. You will find your reader for sure. As yet the world craves for anything good. Above all, value yourself for that is what carries one through the tide of times unto eventual freedom. It is freedom seeking freedom and realising in the end that it had never been lost. Happy anniversary!

P.S. : Ananya Mukherjee @Sugata Bose : thank you so much. Such thoughtful words and such a beautiful blessing. Matha pete nilam. It isn’t our wedding anniversary today. Just celebrating the prothom alaap. Thanks again for your kind wishes. 🙏🏻

Sugata Bose @Bhaskar Mukherjee : Vivekananda conveniently forgotten. Straight from Gandhi back to the Buddha. Tagore's words bespeak his edited acceptance of Vivekananda by default.

Sugata Bose @YouTube : Who is this fellow? What is he doing here? Disgusting sycophancy of this extraconstitutoonal authority (Sanjay Gandhi) by fawning filmstars (Dilip Kumar et al).

Sugata Bose @Divakar Thimmaiah : Despicable. And if it be true, then when are we going to suffer self-immolation of a like kind for the sake of the country? The soldiers do it at the border. When are we going to follow Gandhiji's and the jawans' lead unto self-sacrifice of the last level?

Sugata Bose @Abhisek Metya : Lack of historical perspective. It were better if one were to study history and the lives of seminal historical figures deeper before one hazarded irreverent observations about these leading lights of the world.

Sugata Bose @YouTube : The background music is too loud and, hence, though melodic, a hindrance to hearing the verbal commentary. Would it were otherwise! The sonic blend is a trifle too loud in musical terms and ought not to have been so. Perhaps, the mixing was done in India where we all know perfection in scientific and aesthetic terms is rather low.

Sugata Bose @Tavleen Singh : It is partisan reporting all the way, a sign of decadent times when commerce rules culture.