THE BRAVE GIRLS OF IRAN
Friday 30 September 2022
REIGN OF TERROR IN IRAN
REIGN OF TERROR IN IRAN
A reign of terror has been unleashed in Iran, a government that ought to protect its citizens resorting to indiscriminate killing of innocent young people who are rightfully protesting against the brutal repression of the regime. As video footage flows in along clandestine channels, one is horrified to see the sheer barbarism of the mass murder that is taking place as the government unleashes its unrestrained armed force to quell the revolt and strike such fear into the hearts of the people that they will not dare challenge its absolute authority over them in the near future. The coarseness of the carnage reminds one of Nazi atrocity on European Jews. But the worst feeling that hits me is to see the sheer callousness of our people to this carnage as if nothing is happening anywhere after all. Wake up and lend your voice to the voiceless Iranian girls whose mass persecution is now being conducted behind an iron curtain with all media coverage shut down. And yet the message filters!
Written by Sugata Bose
Thursday 29 September 2022
MY MEMORABLE MATES [121 -- 140]
MY MEMORABLE MATES [121 -- 140]
GAME 121 [Blitz 0 + 10]
White: Anonymous
Black: Sugata Bose
1. e4 e5
2. Qh5 Qf6
3. Nf3 h6
4. Bc4 d6
5. d3 c6
6. Bg5 Qg6
7. Qxg6 fxg6
8. Bc1 Nf6
9. Nc3 Bg4
10. Nh4 Nbd7
11. Nxg6 Rh7
12. h3 Bh5
13. Nxf8 Nxf8
14. Be3 O-O-O
15. d4 exd4
16. Bxd4 Kb8
17. Bxf6 gxf6
18. O-O d5
19. exd5 cxd5
20. Nxd5 Bf7
21. Nxf6 Bxc4
22. Nxh7 Bxf1
23. Nxf8 Rxf8
24. Rxf1 Rd8
25. Rc1 Rd2
26. Kh2 Rxf2
27. Kg1 Rd2
28. Kf1 Kc7
29. g4 Rh2
30. g5 Rh1+
31. Ke2 Rxc1
32. gxh6 Rh1
33. h7 Rxh3
34. h8=B Rxh8
35. Kd2 Rh3
0-1
GAME 122 [A string of sacrifices from the beginning till the very end]
White: Sugata Bose
Black: Anonymous
1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Bc5
3. Bc4 d6
4. Nc3 Qf6
5. d3 Bg4
6. Nd5 Qd8
7. h3 Be6
8. c3 a6
9. Bg5 f6
10. Nxf6+ (1st sacrifice) gxf6
11. Bxe6 fxg5 (2nd sacrifice)
12. Nxe5 (3rd sacrifice) dxe5
13. Qh5+ Ke7
14. Qxg5+ Nf6
15. d4 Rg8
16. Bxg8 Qxg8
17. Qxg8 Nxg8
18. dxc5 Nd7
19. b4 Ngf6
20. f3 Rg8
21. Kf2 c6
22. Rad1 b6
23. cxb6 Nxb6
24. Ke3 Rxg2
25. Rhg1 Rxg1
[correct continuation for Black is 25....Nc4+ 26. Kd3 Nb2+ 27. Ke3 N×d1+ 28. R×d1 R×a2 wins fir Black]
26. Rxg1 Na4
27. Kd3 c5
28. bxc5 Nxc5+
29. Kc4 Kd6
30. Rb1 Kc6
31. Rb8 Nfd7
32. Rh8 Nf6
33. Rf8 Nfd7
34. Rf7 h6
35. Rh7 h5
36. Rxh5 Nb6+
37. Kb4 a5+
38. Kxa5 Nc4+
39. Kb4 Kd6 (4th sacrifice, 1st for Black)
[Black trying to save his lone pawn against knight sacrifice as he cannot win with only two knights]
40. Rh6+ Ne6
41. Kxc4 Kd7
42. Rxe6 (5th sacrifice, 4th for White) Kxe6
43. a4 Kf6
44. a5 Kg5
45. a6 Kf4
46. a7 Kxf3 (6th sacrifice, 5th for White)
47. a8=Q Kg3
48. Qg8+ Kxh3 (7th sacrifice, 6th for White)
49. Qg5 Kh2
50. Kd3 Kh3
51. Ke2 Kh2
52. Kf2 Kh3
53. Qh5#
1-0
GAME 123
White: Anonymous
Black: Sugata Bose
1. e4 e5
2. Bc4 Nf6
3. Nf3 Bc5
4. Ng5 O-O
5. Qf3 Nc6
6. Nc3 Nd4
7. Qd3 Ng4
8. Nxh7 Nxf2
9. Kxf2 Nxc2+
10. Kg3 Nxa1
11. Nd5 Kxh7
0-1
GAME 124
White: Anonymous
Black: Sugata Bose
1. e4 e5
2. d4 exd4
3. Qxd4 Nc6
4. Qd5 Nf6
5. Qd3 Nb4
6. Qc4 d5
7. Qb5+ c6
8. Qe2 Nxe4
9. a3 Qe7
10. axb4 Qxb4+
11. c3 Qb6
12. f3 Bc5
13. fxe4 O-O
14. e5 Re8
15. Nf3 f6
16. Bf4 fxe5
17. Nxe5 Bd6
18. Nd2 Bf5
19. b4 Re6
20. Qh5 Rae8
21. Qxf5 Bxe5
22. Bxe5 Rxe5+
23. Qxe5 Rxe5+
24. Kd1 Qf2
25. Kc2 Qf5+
26. Kb3 c5
27. Rxa7 c4+
28. Ka4 Qd7+
29. b5 d4
30. Nxc4 Qxb5+
31. Ka3 Qc5+
32. Kb3 Qxa7
33. Bd3 Rb5+
34. Kc2 Qa2+
35. Kd1 Qa1+
36. Ke2 Qxh1
37. Na3 Rb2+
38. Kf3 Qxg2+
39. Kf4 Rf2+
40. Ke5 dxc3
41. Be4 Re2
42. Kd4 Qxe4+
43. Kxc3 Qe3+
44. Kb4 Rb2+
45. Ka4 Qa7#
0-1
GAME 125
White: Anonymous
Black: Sugata Bose
1. d4 d5
2. Nf3 Bg4
3. Nbd2 Nc6
4. e3 e5
5. Bb5 e4
6. B×c6 b×c6
7. 0-0 e×f3
8. g×f3 Bh3
9. Re1 Qg5+
10. Kh1 Qg2++
0-1
GAME 126
White: Anonymous
Black: Sugata Bose
1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bc4 Nd4
4. Nxe5 Qg5
5. Nxf7 Qxg2
6. Rf1 Qxe4+
7. Be2 Nf3#
0-1
GAME 127
White: Anonymous
Black: Sugata Bose
1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bc4 Nd4
4. Nxe5 Qg5
5. Nxf7 Qxg2
6. Ng5 Qxh1+
7. Bf1 Qxh2
8. Nf3 Nxf3+
9. Qxf3 Bc5
10. d3 Qe5
11. Nc3 Nf6
12. Bf4 Qd4
13. Be3 Qb4
14. Bd2 Qxb2
15. Rb1 Qxc2
16. e5 O-O
17. exf6 Rxf6
18. Qd5+ Re6+
19. Be2 Bxf2+
20. Kxf2 Qxd2
21. Ne4 Qf4+
22. Bf3 c6
23. Qc4 d5
24. Qd4 dxe4
25. dxe4 Qh4+
26. Ke3 Qh6+
27. Ke2 Qh2+
28. Ke3 Qh6+
29. Kf2 Rd6
30. Qc4+ Be6
31. Qb4 Rd2+
0-1
GAME 128
White: Anonymous
Black: Sugata Bose
1. e4 e5
2. Bc4 Nc6
3. Nc3 Bc5
4. Nd5 Nf6
5. h3 Nxe4
6. d3 Nxf2
7. Qh5 Nxh1
8. Nxc7+ Qxc7
9. Qxf7+ Kd8
10. Bg5+ Ne7
11. Qxe7+ Bxe7
12. Bxe7+ Kxe7
0-1
GAME 129
White: Anonymous
Black: Sugata Bose
1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. d4 exd4
4. Nxd4 Bc5
5. Nxc6 Qh4
6. Qf3 dxc6
7. Bc4 Nf6
8. Nc3 Bg4
9. Qf4 O-O-O
10. O-O g5 [sacrificing knight on f6]
11. Qxf6 Bd6
12. g3 Qh3
13. Bxf7 Be5 [sacrificing bishop to deflect Black queen from f6 -- not accepted]
14. Qxg5 Bf3 [intending mate on g2]
15. Qf5+ [forcing queen exchange] Qxf5
16. exf5 h5
17. Be6+ Kb8
18. Bf4 [Black blunders initiating White's combination] Bxf4
19. gxf4 Rhg8+ [sacrifice]
20. Bxg8 Rxg8#
0-1
GAME 130 [Petroff's trap]
White: Sugata Bose
Black: Anonymous
1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nf6
3. Nxe5 Nxe4
4. Qe2 Nc5
5. Nc6+ Be7
6. Nxd8
1-0
GAME 131
White: Anonymous
Black: Sugata Bose
1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. d4 exd4
4. Nxd4 Bc5
5. Nxc6 Bxf2+
6. Kxf2 Qh4+
7. g3 Qxe4
8. Qe2 Qxe2+
9. Bxe2 dxc6
10. Nc3 Bf5
11. Bb5 cxb5
12. Nxb5 O-O-O
13. Nxa7+ Kb8
14. Nb5 Bxc2
15. Bf4 Be4
16. Nxc7 Bxh1
17. Ne6+ Kc8
18. Nxd8 Kxd8
19. Rxh1 Nf6
20. Rd1+ Kc8
21. Rc1+ Kd7
22. Rc7+ Ke6
23. Rxb7 Nd5
24. a4 Nxf4
25. gxf4 Kf5
26. Kf3 f6
27. a5 Ra8
28. b4 g5
29. fxg5 fxg5
30. Rxh7 g4+
31. Kg3 Rb8
32. Rf7+ Kg6
33. Rf4 Kh5
34. Rxg4 Rc8
35. a6 Rc3+
36. Kf4 Rc4+
37. Kg3 Rxg4+
38. Kf3 Rxb4
39. h3 Ra4
40. h4 Rxa6
0-1
GAME 132 [17 takebacks by opponent and a final offer of a draw on the verge of losing -- incorrigible optimist and a solid sense of humour, treat of the day.]
White: Sugata Bose
Black: Anonymous
1. e4 Nc6
2. d4 e5
3. Nf3 Bb4+
4. c3 exd4
5. Nxd4 Nxd4
6. Qxd4 f6
7. cxb4 b6
8. Bc4 Qe7
9. O-O c5
10. bxc5 Nh6
11. Bxh6 gxh6
12. cxb6 axb6
13. Nc3 h5
14. Nd5 Qc5 [temerity of offering a draw ½?]
15. Nxf6+ Ke7
16. Nd5+ Kd6
17. Qf6#
1-0
GAME 133
White: Sugata Bose
Black: Anonymous
1.e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bb5 Nd4
4. Nxd4 exd4
5. Bc4 Nf6
6. e5 Ne4
7. Qh5 Qe7 [better was 7. Qf3 threatening mate on f7 and winning knight on e4]
8. d3 Nc5
9. O-O d6
10. Bg5 Qd7
11. e6 Qxe6
[alternatively 11. ... Nxe6 12. Rfe1 Be7 13. Bxe6 Qc6 14. Qxf7+ Kd8 15. Qxe7#
alternatively 13. ... Qd8 14. Qxf7#
Hence, the gameline of queen sacrifice is best.]
12. Bxe6 g6
13. Bxf7+ Kxf7
14. Qf3+ Kg7
15. Qf6+ Kg8
[alternatively 15. Bf6+ wins rook on h8 immediately.
However, after 16. Re1 Bd7 17. Nd2 Bg7 18. Qe7 Re8 19. Qxd7 Rxe1+ 20. Rxe1 wins for White.]
16. Re1 Bd7
17. Re7 [blunder] Bxe7
18. Qxe7 [blunder] Re8 threatening mate on e1
19. Nd2 Rxe7
20. Bxe7 d5 [blunder as it loses knight on c5 and allows 21. Bf6 capturing rook on h8 ... Black should have played 20. ... Kf7]
21. Bf6 Ba4
22. Bxd4 Nd7
23. b3 Bc6
24. Re1 Nf8
25. Re7 Bd7
26. Rg7# (coup de grace)
1-0
GAME 134
White: Anonymous
Black: Sugata Bose
1. e4 e5
2. Qh5 Qf6
3. d3 Bc5
4. Nf3 d6
5. Bg5 Qg6
6. Qh4 f6
7. Be3 Bxe3
8. fxe3 Bg4
9. Nbd2 Nc6
10. O-O-O Nge7
11. h3 Be6
12. g4 Bxa2 [poisoned pawn willingly accepted, bishop sacrificed to open up the Queen-side]
13. b3 a5
14. Kb2 a4 [mastermove to open up game further]
15. Kxa2 axb3+
16. Kxb3 Qf7+
17. c4 Na5+
18. Kc2 O-O [castles connecting rooks at the critical juncture]
19. Ra1 b5
20. Nb3 Nxb3
21. Kxb3
[blunder losing rook on a1 ... correct continuation was 21. Rxa8 Rxa8 22. Kxb3 bxc4+ 23. dxc4]
21. ... bxc4+
22. dxc4 Rxa1
23. Nd2 Rb8+
24. Kc3 Ra3+
25. Kc2 Nc6
26. Kd1 Rxe3
27. Qf2 Ra3
28. Ke2
[blunder as knight will be pinned by rook on b2, exposing c4 pawn to queen check]
28. ... Rb2
29. Bg2 Qxc4+
30. Kd1 Ra1+
31. Nb1 Raxb1#
0-1
GAME 135
White: Sugata Bose
Black: Anonymous
1. e4 d5
2. exd5 Qxd5
3. Nc3 Qa5
4. Bc4 g6
5. Nf3 Bg7
6. O-O Bxc3
7. dxc3 Nf6
8. Bh6 c6
9. Bg7 Rg8
10. Bxf6 exf6
11. Re1+ Be6
12. Bxe6 fxe6
13. Rxe6+ Kf7
14. Qd6 Na6
15. Qe7#
1-0
GAME 136
White: Anonymous
Black: Sugata Bose
1. d4 d5
2. e3 Nc6
3. Nf3 Bg4
4. Nbd2 a6
5. c3 e5
6. Be2 exd4
7. exd4 Nf6
8. O-O Bd6
9. Re1 O-O
10. Ne5 Nxe5
11. Bxg4 Nexg4
12. Nf3 Ne4
13. Rxe4 dxe4
14. h3 exf3
15. hxg4 Qh4
0-1
GAME 137
White: Anonymous
Black: Sugata Bose
1. e3 e5
2. g3 d5
3. Bg2 c6
4. Nc3 Nf6
5. d3 Bb4
6. Bd2 Bxc3
7. Bxc3 d4
8. exd4 exd4
9. Qe2+ Be6
10. Bd2 0-0
11. 0-0-0 a5
12. Kb1 a4
13. a3 b5
14. Bb4 Re8
15. Nf3 Ba2+
16. Kxa2 Rxe2
17. Kb1 Nd5
18. Nh4 Nxb4
19. Rhe1 Rxe1
20. Rxe1 Nd5
21. Nf5 b4
22. Re4 bxa3
23. Rg4 axb2
24. Rxg7+ Kh8
25. Rxf7 a3
26. Be4 Nc3#
0-1
GAME 138
White: Sugata Bose
Black: Anonymous
1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 d5
3. exd5 Qxd5
4. Nc3 Qc5
5. d4 Qc6
6. Bb5 f5
7. Bxc6+ bxc6
8. Nxe5 Be6
9. Qh5+ g6
10. Nxg6 hxg6
11. Qxh8 Be7
12. Qe5 Na6
13. Qxe6 Rd8
14. Bg5 Rd6
15. Qxg8+ Kd7
16. Bxe7 Kxe7
17. Qg7+ Kd8
18. Qf8+ Kd7
19. 0-0-0 Nb4
20. Rhe1 Re6
21. Rxe6 Kxe6
22. Re1+ Kd7
23. Qe7+ Kc8
24. Qxb4 g5
25. Re7 a6
26. Re8+ Kd7
27. Qe7#
1-0
GAME 139
White: Anonymous
Black: Sugata Bose
1. d3 d5
2. b3 e5
3. g3 Nc6
4. Bb2 Nf6
5. Bg2 Be6
6. Nh3 Qd7
7. O-O Bxh3
8. Bxh3 Qxh3
9. e4 Ng4
10. exd5 Qxh2#
0-1
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GAME 140 [A Masterpiece -- one in a lifetime]
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White: Anonymous
Black: Sugata Bose
1. d4 d5
2. c4 dxc4 [... Queen's Gambit Accepted]
3. Nf3 Bg4 [... prospective pinning of knight]
4. e3 Qd5 [... knight pinned and attacked two-fold]
5. Be2 e5 [... clears path for f-bishop, later deadly on c5, later forms the deadly duo of e5-f5]
6. Nc3 Qa5 [... pinning c-knight]
7. O-O Bxf3 [... neutralising f-knight]
8. Bxf3 Nc6 [... the first of three lethal leaps, Nc6, Nb4, Nd3]
9. Bd2 O-O-O [... taking king to safety while connecting rooks for future king-side assault]
10. d5 Nb4 [... preparing for lethal leap]
11. a3 Nd3 [... deadly outpost paralysing Black's pieces]
12. Qc2 f5
13. e4 f4 [... hemming in]
14. Ne2 Qa6 [... readying for switching from queen-flank (a-file) to king-flank (h-file)]
15. Bc3 h5 [... preparing pawnstorm on king-side]
16. Rfd1 Bc5 [... threatening Bxf2+]
17. Rf1 g5 [... hemming in]
18. h3 g4
19. hxg4 hxg4
20. Bxg4+ Kb8
21. b4 Qh6
22. Bh3 f3 [... the conclusive mastermove, the coup de grace]
0-1
A PIONEER AMONG ENVIRONMENTALISTS
A PIONEER AMONG ENVIRONMENTALISTS
Swami Yuktananda (Panu Maharaj) who spoke about environmental issues in the early 1970s when the world at large was sleeping on it. After he was evicted from the Ramakrishna Mission on ideological grounds in which his concern for the environment played the critical part, he founded his own organisation called 'Vivekananda Nidhi' where he kept up a sustained campaign on global warming and allied issues. A visionary who was not understood by his compatriots for he was way ahead of his times, Swami Yuktananda nonetheless went ahead with his far-reaching programmes of environmental awareness which have today assumed seminal significance in the public imagination as the world warms up to its catastrophic culmination.
I knew him personally and was blessed with his unalloyed affection. I offer him my heartfelt salutations at this distant day for he has passed away from our midst decades ago. But his message remains -- 'Wake up before it is too late, for the earth will soon become uninhabitable unless you act now and start cooling it.'
Written by Sugata Bose
Monday 26 September 2022
BE ORIGINAL
BE ORIGINAL
Although we are all linked to the origin of life, we are so deflected from it that few among us are indeed original. Be creative, be original, forge your bond with your roots. This is the way to true spirituality, the royal avenue to freedom and light. This is also the way of sociocultural evolution unhindered by traditional trappings.
By returning to roots here is meant anchoring oneself in one's inner being as one feels it and not as per the prescription of a Prophet, Messenger, Messiah, Sage, Saint, Divine Incarnation et al. One must view life from one's own vantage point of vision, one's unique location in the realm of life and become a channel of Nature, a window into the vast vistas that surround one, a peephole into the perennial mystery that the universe is, spanning the width of the large and the small from the macroscopic stellar systems to the minuscule world of quarks and strings. Then there are emotions, sensibilities and sensitivities that are personal, the smiles and the laughs, the tears and the wails, the likes and the loves that animate a being. Who can adjudicate on these? Who must contain these spontaneous overflows within scriptural bounds?
So, be original. Pen your perspectives on life around you, on life within you as you feel it and not as you ought to deem it to be following some prophetic injunction. Be your own self and live life on your own terms, independent and free. In it consists the greatest good, your best chances of self-evolution and your brightest hopes for the future, uncertain though it may be.
Written by Sugata Bose
HOW TO RECOGNISE FAKE GURUS WHO ARE DELUDING AND LOOTING THE MASSES
HOW TO RECOGNISE FAKE GURUS WHO ARE DELUDING AND LOOTING THE MASSES
Verbosity, gaudy apparel, taking huge sums of money for programmes conducted, advertising their achievements, proximity to politicians, levity and frivolity in speech, pandering to popular vanity, absence of depth-knowledge of scriptures or their meaning through experiential access, discussing anything and everything without verbal restraint, misquoting the lives of great men such as Swami Vivekananda and Sri Ramakrishna, plagiarising quotes and passages from other people's writings and using them after clever adaptation, creating a mist and a mystique about themselves and their deeds through use of deliberate delusive phrases, terms and language in general, creating advertised festivals of gods that are highly priced at the gate, destroying the environment by encroaching into forest and tribal territory or river valleys by colluding with governmental authorities, claiming divinity indirectly through misuse of scriptural definition of the Guru, preaching rationality while simultaneously creating myths that will spread superstition further, and a host of allied stuff. They are all there for the discerning to see and see through the designs of these crooks selling spirituality, but the naive, the corrupt hands-in-glove people and the crafty politicians will either fail to see or purposefully pretend not to see or go all out to protect the nefarious interests of these unholy men in order to secure their own profit-making and political exploitative ends.
Written by Sugata Bose
TO A BEREAVED ONE FRESH PARTED FROM HER LIFE'S MATE
TO A BEREAVED ONE FRESH PARTED FROM HER LIFE'S MATE
Sorry to hear. Hold fast onto his memory, yet move along.
Memory perfected becomes vision. Love is never lost in the strong heart.
Grieve not, dear friend, but give your best to life and love with a spine of steel and a honeyed heart that feels for all and befriends the world. Read Swami Vivekananda and seek solace in an often pitiless world where you may be the beacon of hope and succour for others less endowed in character-strength than you are.
My condolences notwithstanding, the pain of separation in throbbing memory will continue to haunt one so bereft of the company of the loved one, but you move on with a full heart and a spirit undaunted through the vicissitudes of life, a wellspring of hope and a leading star amidst the deep dark night that surrounds us all. In lingering love seek not solace but in bond unbroken of stronger steel seek it in a mighty manner, then spread your vibrancy, fresh-found, among drooping hearts who fail to do so.
May love ever dwell in your undying heart! May the memory of your life's mate come alive each day, each hour in every deed of yours, in every dream of yours, in every inspirational imagining that careers you on! May Mother bless you and yours ever is the soft prayer of this brother of yours!
Written by Sugata Bose
Sunday 25 September 2022
ইরানের হিজাববহ্নি
ইরানের হিজাববহ্নি
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কোন অধিকারে এরা মেয়েদের মারে? মেয়েদের গর্ভ হতে জন্মায় আর মেয়েদেরই ওপর ধর্মের অনুশাসন চাপায়? এত সাহস!
যিনি গর্ভধারিণী, যিনি ক্রমবর্ধমান প্রাণকে ধারণ করেন, তিনি সততই ধার্মিক | তাঁকে আর ধর্ম শেখাতে হবে না | হিজাব পড়তে হয় পড়ুক পুরুষ | মাতৃজাতিকে আর শতবন্ধনে শৃঙ্খলিত করতে হবে না | মেয়েরা মুক্ত হ'ক পুরুষের আধিপত্য হতে, পুরুষতন্ত্রের সহস্র দুঃশাসন হতে | নারীমুক্তিতেই হবে জগতের মুক্তি | নিপীড়িত নারীকুল, ইরানের হিজাববহ্নি হতে শিক্ষা নাও | ফেলে দাও বন্ধনশৃঙ্খল |
রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)
TIME TO VEIL MEN INSTEAD -- HOW ABOUT THAT?
TIME TO VEIL MEN INSTEAD -- HOW ABOUT THAT?
We will be failing in our dharma (obligation/duty) if we do not stand in solidarity now with the women of Iran who are fighting oppressive Islamic dress code thrust on them. They are burning their hijab (head scarf) by way of collective resistance to the tyranny of archaic religious injunctions bearing them down for ages.
Shame on those who are siding with these regressive religious forces here and elsewhere! Those who wish to perpetuate the enslavement of women to patriarchal excesses need to introspect. Men who are vociferous about veiling women may veil themselves instead. That would appease their apparel appetite better for sure.
Mahsa Amini's brutal murder must not be forgotten or forgiven. Iran and all Islamic nations where women are subjugated must reform themselves to humanistic standards from their present harsh ways and means.
Bravo, brave girls of Iran, you who are daring the might of religion and state at the same time!
Written by Sugata Bose
Thursday 22 September 2022
A MILLION MAHSA AMINIS ARE UP IN ARMS IN IRAN AS THE REAL MAHSA PASSES INTO MEMORY
A MILLION MAHSA AMINIS ARE UP IN ARMS IN IRAN AS THE REAL MAHSA PASSES INTO MEMORY
We must stand in solidarity with the brave young women of Iran who have risen up in protest against the brutal oppression of women under the Islamic Sharia.
Mahsa Amini's death at the hands of the moral police of the Islamic Republic of Iran has sent shock waves throughout the country. Young women, tired of Islamic repression, are being seen removing their hijabs, throwing them into the fire that they have lit on the streets and dancing in defiance of all state stricture of the Sharia. They are cutting off their hair in public. A feminist revolution is on but it is being brutally suppressed. Internet connections have been cut so that the linkages among the revolutionaries may be cut, thereby controlling the spread of the revolution, and the regime's brutal repression does not find its way out to the wider world.
Preaching Vedantic principles of peace from the safety of the pulpit does not help. It is cowardice and hypocrisy of the first order, this avoidance of addressing contentious issues that afflict vas⁸t populations. The real Vedantists are these brave girls who are braving the streets across fifty cities of Iran and daring the repressive religious regime despite grave threats to their person. Many have died since Mahsa's death. So many are enduring torture. But the fallen flower, Mahsa Amini, continues to inspire these young ladies -- many of them university students -- to dare the dictatorship and its doctrinaire injunctions on women, one of which mandates compulsory wearing of the hijab or the head scarf. Time it is for us to show our solidarity with these daughters of Iran.
Remember, Mahsa Amini was murdered by the moral police of Islamic Iran, her head bludgeoned against the wall. Will you not react to all this inhumanity for once instead of shedding online teardrops only, an exercise in convenience and cowardice? Will you not show a like courage as these young women of Iran and prove yourselves to be men and women of mettle?
So many Mahsas cry, not in the wilderness anymore but in the thoroughfare of life today and, yet, their lamentations go unheard on account of human callousness. Twenty two year old Mahsa Amini has died but she lives on, incarnated afresh in a million young women of awakening Persia. Let perennial Persia come alive from the rubble of regressive religious Iran and deliver these goddesses from the tyranny of archaic absolutist injunctions. Join hands in solidarity.
Written by Sugata Bose
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