COMMENTS GALORE ... 38

COMMENTS GALORE ... 38

Sugata Bose @Riya Bhattacharya : Grand sarcasm. Drives the point home through reverese infliction.

Sugata Bose @Saroj Upadhayay : At least give some prominence to names by beginning them with the traditional capital letter. For instance, Bharat and Megasthenes would have done both proud.

Sugata Bose @Arundhoti Shome : Accuracy is important as well in the absence of which we are languishing as a nation. For instance, the spelling of the written word ought to be correct, I dare say. Likewise, the grammar, the rational sense and the punctuation. To justify carelessness in the name of INTENTION and emotion (bold-lettered word being deliberately used here to highlight earlier inaccuracy) is puerile and becomes an immature polity's easy escape into perpetuating the selfsame errors.

Of course there is much in a name and justifiably so. 'The rose by any other name would smell as sweet'---so goes the age-old adage. But its meaning is oft distorted to suit convenience.

A nation of hundreds of milions of inaccurate people can scarce make it progress as fast as it deserves to. If this idea could not be hammered in, I pity the future of our polity, declining as it is in cultural terms on account of demographic change and democratic opportunities now available to the multitude to indulge in declining cultural output that is here being thus justified.

We are an ancient civilisation of high excellence in all aspects of our national life and we have never been so casual, so careless and so very neglectful in execution of art, literature and common correspondence. A generation back we were far more meticulous in our actions. Now no more so. And it is portentous of a terrible decline in national culture in the decades ahead whose solemn signals we are already witnessing across the political spectrum of rising ignorance and roguery.

Concentration is the key to success, individual and collective. Where casual lapses are justified, there arises the serious question as to whether the mean concentration of the polity is fast declining or not.

A great man is to be judged by his least deeds of day-to-day insignificance and a great nation likewise. Hence, accuracy or the lack of it holds the key to our prospective national greatness or otherwise.

I rest my case here hoping better sense will prevail in some of my perceptive readers. I cannot compromise with easy casualness and the unwillingness to learn and rectify. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Sharmistha Chatterjee : You'll do very well. Your mind is stiller than most. Always maintain calm despite provocation. The breath controlled, the vital force (pranshakti) is controlled which is the way to concentration, purity and power.

Sugata Bose @Måñjür Khäñ : Not a subject worth research. It takes a couple of months' reading of Islamic scriptures to get to the bottom of the whole game plan beyond which it is a sheer waste of time that may be otherwise more fruitfully spent. Unfortunately, too many years have been wasted thus in trying to find substance in a theology which never came about on account of its simply not being there. The Sanatan Dharma is a more worthwhile subject for enduring research much like the physical sciences are. Islam has become contentious on account of widespread and proliferating terror activities across the world in its name and fuelled by its scriptural doctrines. Hence, it would be meet if you, on the contrary, on account of being supposedly an adherent of this stringent faith, would deem it wiser to study Swami Vivekananda and liberalise yourself to standards of modernity instead of lying in the backwaters of archaic assumptions and superstitious suppositions contradisposed to spiritual enlightenment that they are after all.

Sugata Bose @Arundhoti Shome : Wishful thinking maketh not reality in the complex world of men.

Sugata Bose @Joydeep Ghosh : Yes, indeed. The Ex-Muslim Movement bears testimony to that.

Sugata Bose @Alok Vaishnava : How foolish of you to ask me to look within in regard to my surname that courtesy colonisation has suffered its unfortunate aberration! There are practical problems that have made me continue with this anglicised version of the ancient root name 'Vasu'. That, however, does not detract one from making one's pertinent observation regarding mispronunciation of names.

Sugata Bose @Digvijay Prabhakar : Ah! There you are. Swamiji has been my staple diet for four decades.

Sugata Bose @Arundhoti Shome : Without gaining it first? Where's the character, the spiritual realisation that are prerequisites for the aforesaid task of dissemination of the message? Is spreading spirituality child's play?

Sugata Bose @Ravindra Patel : Indeed it is. Demographic transition thus will carry the world to the dark ages. Infiltration of European society, courtesy massive immigration, is going to destroy the enlightened social structure of Europe in the coming decades. India will turn Islamic in many segments and pockets soon with secessionist tendencies gaining ground. The democratic system will be laid waste as theocracy replaces it consequent on Islamisation of the general polity. Dark days ahead unless reconversion of the perverted ones back to the Sanatan Dharma can be progressively effected.

Sugata Bose @Bhagirath Guha : Muslims are scripturally bound to resist reformation. Education will not prevail expect for creating sizeable numbers of apostates who in turn can carry on the process of weaning away more and more of the believers from adherence to the faith into the clear light of reason and spiritual enlightenment that is universal and all-inclusive as opposed to the divisive principle of the momin and the kafir. Remember that the biggest bigots and the most committed terrorists are highly educated which make them all the more dangerous. Education cannot prevail over indoctrination from birth reinforced by daily ritualistic affirmation of archaic absolutist articles of faith which have no basis in reasonableness or the universality of highest spirituality.

Sugata Bose @Sanjeev Sharma : Which, though, is an impossibility, given the absolutist nature of the concerned scripture whose slightest reform would invalidate the faith, inviolable as is the supposed word of 'The God'. This rigidity will not let it undergo reformation and consequent progression of the 'believers' unto liberalism and modernity where divisive mentality will have given way to universal values of catholicity and acceptance.

Sugata Bose @Sanjeev Sharma : But they do read it who are among the believers the most faithful. And they most loyally follow it without altering injunction and freshly interpreting it, such allowance being truly not there if one is to be honest about adhering to the faith.

Sugata Bose @Sanchita Sanyal : History testifies otherwise. It seems you are unaware of world history where demographic transition has wiped out other religious groups, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Lebanon but being only four such instances of contemporary history. Perhaps, staying in these places for several years would help open your eyes. The seven historical exoduses of Kashmiri Hindu Pandits from the Valley, the innumerable genocides of Hindus in 1300 years of Islamic occupation in the subcontinent, the Great Calcutta Killing, the Noakhali genocide, the Partition horrors, all these will put things into proper perspective. The sleeping may be awakened but the wakeful one putting up the pretence of sleep is immune to such external stimuli. Hence, greater reading and a modicum of experience alone is the panacea for such deliberate ignorance about the real nature of things. For good measure read Sita Ram Goel, Ram Swarup, Koenraad Elst and the like (Voice of India Publications) for better access to history's heresies and the horrors the Hindus have historically faced on account of being infidels at the hands of the believers of the 'only true faith'.

Sugata Bose @Awadhesh Kumar Singh : Terror, terror, terror we hear of which nations want to tackle. But what about tackling the cause right at its source which produces it?

Sugata Bose @Rabindra Mukhopadhyay : Yes, the potential of a nation is for sure evident in its sporting achievements. But geopolitics has driven this country into being victimised by three successive world powers, namely, Britain, USSR and USA. But the undying spirit of this pulverised race, erstwhile Gandhara of ancient India, has not been totally extinguished by even its last oppressor, the Taliban regime. If these sterling performances at the highest stage of cricket are any indication, the Afghans have a bright future in the decades ahead provided they are allowed to prosper by the hegemonic world powers and by the throttling Islamic rule they are forced to endure.

Coming back to cricket it was a masterstroke of Late Jagmohan Dalmiya that brought Afghanistan within the fold of his campaign for the globalisation of cricket which move has certainly paid rich dividend in the case of the said country.

Kudos to Afghanistan and best wishes for its remaining fixtures in this World Cup which has no less been lit up by these minnows of world cricket than by stalwarts such as India, South Africa and New Zealand.

Sugata Bose @jihadwatchRS (Robert Spencer) : Indoctrinated from birth they are incapable of escaping the stranglehold of the faith which is merciless towards infidels. This coupled with geopolitical infringement has compounded the problem worse, although no apologia may justify the dastardly October 7 violation of Israel by Hamas.

Sugata Bose @Udayan Mukhopadhyay : Right. But nobody seems to muster the courage to do so, superficial and compromised that men are.

Sugata Bose @Jean S. Sahaï : But the horns are both outside and inside, and it is this inside from where the horns shoot out in their aggressive intent and aspired end.

Sugata Bose @Alok Vaishnava : Do not be presumptuous and given to puerile play of unfounded observation. Without understanding the essence of an essay and commenting indiscriminately you have exhibited exactly the same superficiality of intellect that is plaguing the polity these days. Read the post properly to see where you have gone wrong and in accordance rectify stance. Your comment smacks of prejudgement and an unfortunate lack of discernment that is so commonplace these days.

Sugata Bose @Alok Vaishnava : 'Men may construe things after their fashion.' Alas, this is the pitiable present scenario where pedestrian intellect sits in judgement over preeminence, hint not being self-reflective in any way! Hope you have the discernment to read into posts better, that is, if at all you ever read before puerile commenting. Also, your observations raise serious questions about the intellectual and cultural condition of the polity, they being the symptom and not the disease which is deeper and needs urgent treatment. Hope you do not represent the larger community as such and there is hope for our country and its future cultural rise from the nadir it has precipitated into.

Sugata Bose @Alok Vaishnava : 'Men may construe things after their fashion.' Alas, this is the pitiable present scenario where pedestrian intellect sits in judgement over preeminence, hint not being self-reflective in any way! Hope you have the discernment to read into posts better, that is, if at all you ever read before puerile commenting. Also, your observations raise serious questions about the intellectual and cultural condition of the polity, they being the symptom and not the disease which is deeper and needs urgent treatment. Hope you do not represent the larger community as such and there is hope for our country and its future cultural rise from the nadir it has precipitated into. Good luck, good friend. People like you spur me onto action even more and that for sure is your contribution to the cultural uplift of the nation, albeit along the line of perverse positioning that in reverse reaction sets the game right.

Sugata Bose @Arjun Chincholi : Is it so? Pew Research is one of the most respected and reliable organisations dedicated to data collection and analysis.

Sugata Bose @Alok Vaishnava : Carry on, friend. Men like you honour my posts by continuing to comment on them. I am grateful to you for your participation thus and hope for your future exertions as well, albeit along more rational and pertinent lines.

Sugata Bose @Alok Vaishnava : Thanks for the judgement and the rectification mode suggested (affidavit of surname from Bose to Basu) which I will not implement though for reasons of practicality.

Sugata Bose @Alok Vaishnava, this is for you. Read, reflect and realise before sitting in judgement over my intellectual faculties and prejudiced views which by way of aspersion you have in the comment stream of an earlier post cast on me. Also, care to comment now on the supposed superficiality of my literary output which has been another of your careless observations.

Sugata Bose @Alok Vaishnava : You are incorrigible and beyond reasonable reform. Your vanity prompts you to believe that I have any need to impress you in any manner. If after a century of familial association with the holy ones of the Ramakrishna Mission this is your spiritual state, I can only bid you godspeed unto the divine end. You had challenged me on my supposed intellectual superficiality and I have manfully responded. If you lack the manhood to admit your earlier errors of judgement, you bear the soul responsibility for it. As it stands, I understand that you belong to the breed of people who cast aspersions on writers without exhibiting due diligence into reading what they have written which, however, is symptomatic of the age. It was folly on my part to have accorded you so much regard despite you being a failed reader of dubious intentions and to have copiously corresponded with you thus, a lapse which I shall forthwith overcome and allow you to wail in the desert of my apathy. Return to Ramakrishna and rectify stance. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Subhasish Papan Ghosh : Certainly not. But I do not indulge in irrirating people with lowly remarks. There are civil ways of conversation which was sadly missing in your initial salvo.

Sugata Bose @Subhasish Papan Ghosh : How can you insult somebody as a petty digital creator? Ill doth it become thee, my esteemed friend of surely better potential discretion than thou hast exhibited thus far hither.

Sugata Bose @Sharmistha Chatterjee : I do not know. Will have to read Gandhi extensively to get to the bottom of it which may not be a worthwhile expenditure of time in this invaluable life of immense opportunities to realise Ramakrishna. Ramakrishna to me stands head and shoulders above who we commonly call God in the Abrahamic sense.

Sugata Bose @Rohini Jalan : Such constancy as you manifest is rare on earth and is verily the hallmark of greatness.

Sugata Bose @Koenraad Elst : Yes, Hindustan is a Persian word but instead of some Hindus addressing India so often as Hindustan, they should refer to it as Hindusthan where 'sthan' surely is a Sanskrit word. That's all. As regards the best possible usage in conversation, we already have Bharatvarsha at any rate.

P.S. The intention of the post was not to 'falsely suggest' that 'Hindustan' is a Sanskrit word which by supposition is an aberration of the word 'Hindusthan' where the latter part 'sthan' is of Sanskrit origin for sure, nonetheless. There has been for lack of elaboration in a one-liner post this legitimate misapprehension on the part of the respondent. I hope to have clarified my position now for a better understanding.