🕉 COMMENTS GALORE ... 19

🕉 COMMENTS GALORE ... 19

Sugata Bose @Bhaskar Ganguly : Really? Where do I advertise my achievements or attainments or personal moments of triumph and success? It is so easy to cast about a comment thus that has no substantive basis. It is time for you to be less superficial in your conceptions and comments thereof about specific individuals. And time for a full-stop, brother, at the end of your sentence lest your criticism of my alleged aforesaid attitude continues ad infinitum in your eyes.

Sugata Bose @Dhyan Maneesha : Bodyline Series (Test cricket) in Australia, 1932-33. The dangerous tactics employed by the Engish team led by Douglas Jardine in their attempt to curb the prolific run-machine, Don Bradman.

Sugata Bose @Legends of Cricket - Sunil Gavaskar (YouTube) : What is Sambit Bal doing by way of giving expert comments on the legendary Sunil Gavaskar? He never played cricket at the highest level and as such his comments carry no weight, insipid and lacking in cricketing insight as they are. Merely being a programme producer does not qualify one to comment on maestros to estimate whose skill and contributions to the game needs not only cricketing insight and first-hand experience but consummate commentator's skill and oratorical ability as well, to begin with. Bal has spoilt the show with his less than confident demeanour in delivery of whatever he did articulate and it is a shame that such a seminal show should merit such shabby performers before the camera. Surely Gavaskar, perfectionist as he was in batting, the epitome of opening batsmanship, deserved better.

Sugata Bose @Nilanjana Chakraborty : And what is the test of this spirituality though that Swamiji has talked of? It is courage of conviction, the courage to face the sword of persecution and not run away from the site citing the Vedanta when danger poses itself before one and challenges the text of one's articulate position. That alone is the virile spirituality that can save us and not the pious platitudes articulately projected which bespeak of a perversion of the statement that one is the undying Atman. Show me one such among the current proponents of the Vedanta who have successfully perverted Vivekananda's every leonine utterance to suit convenient ends. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : The current political dispensation in Poland is markedly pro-Christian and wishes to alter the demographic balance heavily in favour of Christians in the face of growing Islamisation of Europe in general and Poland to some effect. This sense of solidarity exhibited by this Prime Minister is not being viewed liberally by the liberals of Europe and they are being highly critical of it in line with their sympathy for the migrating Muslims who are ruining the Judeo-Christian cultural core of Europe. But Poland like Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Italy and France is fighting it out and will not yield meekly like us, Hindus, who are content to compromising with corrosive ideologies despite suffering the most horrible holocaust of 80 million dead over 13 centuries at Islamic hands. 

Ours is spirituality in empty words and not in daring deeds, with us relying on our armed gods and goddesses to rescue us while all the while we while away our indolent or indecisive hour in offering pious platitudes to our earthly and divine objects of adoration, and in engaging in passive piety, taking care, nonetheless, to hammer it out for our every lapse on the very votaries (in our estimation, that is) of our cowardly attitude, namely, the Mahatma and his protégé, the Pandit, although, these latter two were markedly less culpable to cowardice than we are. We dare not fight; we dare not protest; we care only to passively acquiesce to the forces that are on the rise to destroy the very fabric of our ancient motherland once more. The Islamic agenda is a long-drawn one and waits on centuries for its eventual evil fulfilment.

Our Prime Minister has some virtues, true, but he dare not take an aggressive step at par with his Polish counterpart, partly because of the passive polity he oversees as executive head and partly because he himself like most Hindus is philosophically confused, being as he is, suspended between the apparently opposite ideologies of his mentoring RSS and his spiritual fountainhead in Swami Vivekananda. But the opposition between these two schools of thought is surface and apparent only, there lying deep resonance between some of Swamiji's exhortations and those of the Sangh, and their commonality in the coming of the Hindu renaissance towards each every Hindu must work, love and labour fused.

The Hindus do not as yet show solidarity in the ballot and do not cast their votes en masse as a block which weakens Modi's position and induces him into apologia and appeasement which endanger further the future prospects of the nation in so far as the kafir is concerned.

Anyhow, kudos to the Polish Prime Minister for knowing who he should trust after all. There lies a lesson for the rest of afflicted humanity as well and a cue to future policy to prevent this ideological scourge from infiltrating trusting societies further. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Sammik Mitra : Rationality would arm us in a better and stronger defence against such vilification [of Hinduism].

Sugata Bose @Ranita Indic : How wonderfully you write, Ranita! Exquisite English!

Sugata Bose @Nilanjana Chakraborty :  Then they [the subcontinental Muslims] must be deindoctrinated by persistent counter-propaganda and the intrepid highlighting of the tenets of their faith.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [NDTV interview of Ustad Bismillah Khan by Shekhar Gupta] : The interviewer is a fool of the first order. His musical sensibility is yet to develop. His supercilious attitude and preprogrammed mind aiming questions to elicit specific answers that he desires makes this rare opportunity to interview such a doyen of Hindustani music a wasted endevour, an exercise in futility. Shekhar Gupta lacks in cultural finesse and is ill-suited for this job of his.

Sugata Bose @Boddhisatya Tarafdar : Same with big John Snow purposefully colliding with the Little Master Gavaskar, casting him violently on to the ground in England, 1971. Snow was suspended for the next Test Match by the MCC by way of punishment. Not sure if Lillee was likewise taken to task by the Australian Cricket Board.

Sugata Bose @Sharmistha Chatterjee : I feel frustrated at times. Then in the depth of despair I am filled with fresh inspiration and invigorating courage to carry on with my work of kindling the consciousness of people.

Sugata Bose @Varsha Sohini [Mama atma gamala] : Off-tune and immature voice. Flat and lacking in modulation. Overall, a bold voice but a novice at this trade of rendition of classical music, if even of the lighter genre of natyasangeet.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Bhimsen Joshi documentary by Gulzar] : Strange it is that Bhimsen Joshi is unable to pick up the tune of his son's composition even after repeated attempts. Clearly proves that the maestro does not have a good musical ear after all. His voice is bold but flat, it must be noted, and his modulations stereotypical after his fashion and lacking in finer nuances. His excellence despite these limitations is the fruit of his lifelong austere sadhana of the sur. Panditji's success despite these apparent musical limitations of voice and ear inspire us with hope of pursuit of musical excellence. We can all do better after all if only we persist and persevere with utmost reverence to music and to our ever-improving craft.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Agenda Aaj Tak] : Rajdeep Sardesai is shallow as an anchor. He talks too much and superficially so. One can hardly imagine that he is the son of the illustrious Dilip Sardesai for he betrays a greater interest in journalistic small talk than serious cricket questioning. Such a frivolous restless anchor can scarce moderate a discussion, rather he excites a shallowness that drowns discussion in distracting chitchat.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Ajoy Chakraborty -- 'Tora bolre Haribol] : Splendid rendition, but the singer does not evoke any divine feeling in the viewer, going by his visage, that is, which is patently material. Hence, it were best to listen to this song with eyes shut and soul open.

Sugata Bose @[YouTube] : Bhimsen Joshi has a stereotypical way of taankari, the same for all of his renditions. His voice also is not very baritone as is commonly wrongly assumed and affirmed. It is not 'buland' after all. The worst feature, though, is that, despite his great reputation as a great singer, his voice is generally off-tune which is a terrible irony.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Sports Today] : Improve your diction and be less theatrical.

Sugata Bose @@YouTube [Ravish Kumar Official] : Superb articulation, forthright frontal attack in defence of democracy! Such journalistic courage is the call of the hour that carry the corrective course to save the nation from unconstitutional degeneracy. More such journalists and even citizens in other walks of life must come to the fore to prevent our country from being sold to a handful of crony capitalists who in complementary terms sustain the ruling dispensation by a liberal distribution of their wealth, ill-beggotten through official patronage.

Sugata Bose @Chandra Kumar Bose : The rich man's pastime at the cost of the poor man's purse. [Chandra Kumar Bose playing golf at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club]

Sugata Bose @Chandra Kumar Bose : Indeed in some sense it is, but it is truth nonetheless. This is being spoken of in general terms and not specifically with reference to you golfing away on an occasional day in this brief sojourn we call life. Indeed, these clubs continue to be the hangover of the colonial past and remain as emblems of the easy exploitation of the masses by their mercenary masters who then unthinking while away their leisure hour in luxury bought at the cost of the lifeblood of the teeming millions. No offence meant to you specifically. Just a general observation on the economic exploitation which has subsisted in society for ages and continues to cast its shadow even today while the generality of humankind bleed to sustain such sporting and other forms of feudal luxury. The ages thus overlap even after they have separated formally. Exploitation continues and every feeling man's heart bleeds. 🕉

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Bhimsen Joshi] : Too thin a voice for a male singer. Undue repetitions with little musical variation that appeals or is strictly in consonance with the raga. Moreover, the voice is not well-tuned and is often off the mark in musical terms. Bhimsen Joshi is a very limited singer with an off-tune voice, stereotypical modulations which are more robust than musical, and is more an effort-singer rather than a natural one. He does not have a very good musical ear, too, as was evidenced when he failed to pick up accurately the tune set to a Surdas bhajan by his son (Bhimsen Joshi's) even after repeated attempts and managed only a rough representation of it. Panditiji's son did not persist too much as they were being filmed by Gulzar in his documentary on the singer.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Sports Tak] : Boria Majumdar's excesses in articulation is spoiling the show. Too loud for moderation.