COMMENTS GALORE ... 40

COMMENTS GALORE ... 40

Sugata Bose @Sanjib Das Gupta : To begin with it must be learning to critically think, organising one's mental faculties as best as one can, suppressing frothy emotions and expressing creative energy in its place, and above all, replacing tamas (sterile inaction) with rajas (fertile activity). Execution of accuracy in work and sustained pursuit of excellence in every phase of national life must be the sine qua non for scaling summits that now so often slip by. Overall, we must be more disciplined in mind and body, less greedy for gold as is our commercial wont these days, more responsible as individuals in terms of making positive contributions to the nation and giving more and demanding less from it if we are to ever emerge as the numero uno nation of the world.

Sugata Bose @Debashis Pathak We weren't disciplined then, we aren't disciplined now as a nation. Victories in 1983 and 2011 do not negate the point made in the post. Even if we had won yesterday, the point made would hold. Were we disciplined as a nation, we would have been making rapid progress in every sphere of national life in comparable terms with the developed nations of the first world which is simply not the case. Our exploding population, poor per capita GDP, proliferating criminalisation of politics, plummeting academic standards, careless ecological destruction are but some of the foremost pointers to the veracity of what I have said whose secondary effect is the frequently failed performance at the highest level in sports. Our Olympic performances are miserably poor relative to USA, China, Germany, France, Japan and a host of other smaller nations of the world. And yet you seek an explanation from me that ought to have been amply evident before the thinking mind.

Sugata Bose @Subhasish Papan Ghosh : This is called post-match, post-tournament analysis and it is very much in place.

Sugata Bose @Soumitra Ghosh Although it worked in the earlier matches, I always felt Rohit Sharma was putting his head to the scaffold too early to disrupt the line and lenghth of the opposition bowlers in the power play. His wicket was so precious and so often he sacrificed it in the 40s and 50s. This was a strategic blunder despite it having apparently been the success mantra in the earlier ten matches. Sharma should have throughout the tournament prized his wicket more and carried on at a relatively slower pace to pile up huge scores for himself and the team. There's room for thought there. One does not sacrifice one's most explosive and prolific batsman this way and expect to win the World Cup. It simply does not happen. Viv Richards made this mistake in the 1983 final (33 of 28 deliveries) to the dismay of the Windies.

Sugata Bose @Umesh Ambadi : Let the players relax now. Why should we? We as a nation must work more, laze less, think more, ease less.

Sugata Bose @Subrata Ganguly : No, even in victory I had pointed out flaws in thinking of the Indian team. Were we to win yesterday, the pertinent features of our national psyche which promote failure would have been as present as they are evident now in defeat to many. Other nations needs a structural overhauling of their cricketing systems but we need a comprehensive overhauling of our national psyche.

Sugata Bose @Rabindra Mukhopadhyay : Through individual effort creating small ripples which in turn overtime will raise large waves, eventually catching all in its magnetic influence and altering national culture for good.

Sugata Bose @Umesh Magotra : Good joke. Actually the post was made by me on my X account where there is space limitation. Hence. But you have a good sense of humour which I appreciate. Plus, let me for once stick with just the eleven and not add on any more.

P.S. On post-thought I have complied with your unstated request. Have a look now. Colin Bland---he fields, bats and bowls better than me. So, I prefer to remain selector and not drinks carrier for this dream team.

Sugata Bose @Debjit Banerjee : Depending on the definition of man and God. Second, we cannot know God beyond our own consciousness, superconscious, call it what you will. Conceptions are circumscribed by consciousness. Hence, a definitive problem.

Sugata Bose @Jeeva Raja : All religions imagine God, interpreting internal Reality as external God sitting up in the heavens.

Sugata Bose @Shubhankar Bhattacharya : The statement made in the post may sound atheistic to the undiscerning but is certainly not unspiritual from the Vedantic standpoint where the trinitarian unity of Absolute Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is kept in mind as the acme of spiritual reality which is the essence of the apparent man and is where terrestrial man and his imagined God both dissolve to reveal the real Being that is the nameless Brahman, Atman or simply 'Tat' (That). ['Aitad atmyamidam sarvam tat satyam sa Atma Tattvamasi Shvetaketu.']

Sugata Bose @Pahari Pothik : God you in essence are. If you can negate your existence even for a moment, God would cease to exist. But can you? You can't. Hence, your existence, absolute and timeless, dimensionless, uncaused and untrapped in relativity is God, the term being Abrahamic is a rather sorry description of the real state of things, so to say. Meanwhile, as long as you conceive of yourself through indescribable Maya as perceiving finite man, your idea of God persists with it if you are a theist. If you are an atheist, you still cannot reject Nature as the governing sovereign. If you are a sceptical natural philosopher or scientist, you still must admit evolutionary cause-effect scientific sequence as the determiner of life and natural law and quantum chance as the presiding officers-in-charge of cosmic affairs. The choice is entirely yours or is determined by your environment, upbringing, education, circumstance, cultural setting and genetic tendency, or, as the theist might put it as being determined by your sanskaras (mental tendencies) stemming from past births. It is an intractable question logically speaking but solvable by actual experience of your adored deity through rigorous pursuit of the requisite spiritual disciplines stationed on the stable foundation of absolute continence (brahmacharya). So, God exists in our imagination as God exists in reality, and Reality is God but not as we commonly conceive of it.

Sugata Bose @Ashutosh Bajpai : But imagination's imagination too, I mean, in calculus' second derivative terms.

Sugata Bose @CricBeat : None dares criticise Kohli for his slow-scoring in the final, now that he has scored 765 runs in the tournament. What about Rohit Sharma's strategic blunder throughout the tournament in giving irresponsible flashy starts to the innings, sacrificing his prized wicket in the process, a move that would inevitably backfire if Kohli and company once failed to capitalise on the headstart given by him in the poweplay? Rohit Sharma is our most explosive batsman with three ODI double centuries to his credit  and yet he casually kept sacrificing his wicket in the forties for this queer course of reasoning that his self-immolation would ignite the pyre perennially for the opposition bowlers to dive in. Queer thinking and rightful response by the Aussies at the critical hour when the pyre consumed the Indian batsmen in their place.

Sugata Bose @Umesh Magotra : Thanks a lot, brother. You are my sole supporter. Else, I am bankrupt in my support base.

Sugata Bose @Partha Sanyal : Nostalgic memories, my friend. Those were the halcyon days.

Sugata Bose @Vinod Ekhellikar : One choice please. The word 'greatest' is in the superlative degree of comparison and cannot brook dual positioning.

Sugata Bose @Debanjan Banerjee : Couldn't fit so many in the attractive coloured box. Perhaps, you would have neglected the post were it to become black and white on account of so many inclusions. So, there lies the colourful predicament, you see. Reader attention-span is extremely short and observation fickle. But in principle I agree with you. Vishwanath, though, is there in the list. Meanwhile, do make the choice please.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Ranveer Allahbadia] : India's population in 2020 was 137 crore and not 130 crore. Accuracy seems not a national attribute in any sphere.

Sugata Bose @Umesh Magotra : You are my sole supporter, my great inspiration to carry on. You are head and shoulders above my faithful followers and have qualified by now as head commentator. 🤣

Sugata Bose @YouTube [ThePrint] : Shekhar Gupta is a trifle frivolous, much too talkative and suffering from a degree of unseemly levity. Besides, his diction, pronunciation at that, is literally terrible.

Sugata Bose @Wake up to a new day with hope and vigour and with the resolve to overcome seemingly insurmountable odds. Golden girl, yours is the expanse ahead to traverse and triumph. Godspeed unto glorious success!

Sugata Bose @Umesh Magotra : You misunderstood my intent. The post means that Bengal no more seminally contributes to India's progress which it used yo do in the days of yore when Gopal Krishna Gokhale famously said, "What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow." Bengal's cultural decline has severely handicapped India's progress to potential. She would have been far ahead today in every sphere had Bengal positively participated in national proceedings instead of playing the deliberate negative role that it has. These are cryptic posts open to misinterpretation. Hence, the post script provided here by way of response to your pertinent observation.

Sugata Bose @Umesh Magotra : Oh, you are too much! I love your sense of humour. And thanks for promoting me up the order from drinks-carrying twelfth man to pace-facing opening bat.

Sugata Bose @Cricket For India : Yes, for sure. Dhoni's exceptionally high IQ for a cricketer would have clinched us the Cup through right planning and adaptive adoption of strategy.

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick : Only it happens to be that this one bad day occurs much less for Australia in crucial matches.

Sugata Bose @Kishore Bhimani became terribly conscious about the time crunch at the end of the show and wished to rapidly wrap up the programme to the effect that he even denied Gavaskar the time and opportunity to answer a question thrown by one in the audience as to whether Sachin Tendulkar was overrated as a batsman in Test cricket as such. But the same Bhimani had no qualms about taking up the lion's share of the interview time by himself needlessly speaking as interviewer when he ought to have allowed the interviewee, Gavaskar, speak much much more. This was a distasteful attempt to steal the show by one who was supposed to merely ask questions and allow the interview to at ease answer them. Bhimani spoilt the show.

Sugata Bose @Umesh Magotra : There you go yet again with your inimitable humour. Bravo, what a talent you have for springing up original surprises! Strange that barring me none else seems to savour such subtle humour put in otherwise easy terms.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Mirror Niw] : Viewers do not wish for clarification, dear newsreader. It is people like you who wish to cash in on every little incident by making mountain out of molehill.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [The Bharat Army] : Farokh Engineer talks stuff that is extraneous to the subject under discussion. Typical muddled superficial thinker, digressing needlessly from the core conversation.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [UnHerd] : How is liberalism rooted in Christianity when Christianity proclaims itself to be the only true faith through which salvation, redemption, call it what you will, is to be achieved? What is liberal about it, Ms. Ayan Hirsi Ali? Have you studied the Upanishads? Do so if you haven't and come to more illumined conclusions about the philosophical genesis of liberalism, the principle being embedded in the depth-consciousness of man.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Freedom Speaks] : Progressive way to address regressive problems?

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Sadhguru] : Puerile assertions made by this supposed yogi masquerading as a true Guru. No match for Prof. Steven Pinker. Distracted digressing dialogues from his side. Pinker is streets ahead, leagues above in his assertions. Prof. Pinker is so clear in his thinking, so precise, logical and articulate that it was a terrible mismatch to pit him in discussion against one of lesser intellectual acumen.

Sugata Bose @Anu Lekha : None. Just resisting the slave mentality of our people that has affected us for millenia and thwarted progress along the lines of individual divine self-expression. This is truly feudal in psychological structure and hinders the democratic fulfillment of our people emerging from tyrannical times dating millenia.

Sugata Bose @Jitendra Abhyankar : True it is that Absolute Truth cannot exist within the universe, so to say, but it may be immanent in it. Absolute Truth is transcendental, beyond the confines of space-time-causality.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [N1 Media Consultancy Private Limited---Discussion on the book 'Fortune Turners: the Quartet that Spun India to Victory'] : Bowling average of Rajinder Goel is 17%. What is that, Madam Moderator?

Sachin Tendulkar neither played Rajinder Goel nor Bishan Singh Bedi and Sunil Gavaskar has not written what Madam Moderator you in your ignorance have blissfully bluttered out. Kindly do your homework well before interviewing such cricketing stalwarts as Rajinder Goel so that you do not suffer such obvious embarrassment on hindsight. 

Select a moderator who is well versed in cricketing lore and in knowledge of the game as such. The one conducting the show seems to be innocent of cricketing knowledge and has spoilt the show completely. Such stalwarts are not everyday born or available for interview as Rajinder Goel and to let go of the opportunity fruitlessly by asking inconsequential questions is a great loss to posterity who will look up these videos to try to know of the halcyon days of our domestic cricket. Indeed a wasted opportunity. Alas!

Sugata Bose @Bratisankar Ghosh : Even if they are, worship is oftentimes sterile and it is better to pursue principle than personality, for the former frees one in its impersonal focus while the latter binds one with all its historical limitations and undue impositions. Principle leads to an infinite expanse of thought whereas personality generally binds its flock unto indiscriminate adulation at its best and fanatical frenzy at its worst. Democracy delivers its promise best along the impersonal line of pursuit of life-giving and truth-seeking principles.

Sugata Bose @Last Breadth : Extraneous unnecessarily disrespectful comment, quite reprehensible. Certainly Netaji would have disapproved of it vehemently. Alas, if this be devotion to the great hero, where will we hide our shame as sincere admirers of him? Surely, Netaji deserves a better deal from those who claim to be his followers and ardent devotees, and surely Netaji, for all his cultural refinement, would have deemed this sort of undue vilification of fellow citizens as a despicable degeneration of the polity and would have brought in heavy censure of the perpetrators.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [tehelkatv] : This 'Guru' (Jaggi Vasudev) speaks a host of gibberish, nonsensical seemingly sensible things, an elaborate verbal trap laid for the gullible to fall into with compliants not lacking to oblige. Such delicious deception is common where the flock follows the shepherd along the blind alleyways of unreason masquerading as reason and millions in the process thus drown in the sea of delusion. A sad day for spirituality where money, machination and mind-management of the masses become mainstream public discourse.

Javed Akhtar is hammering home his point. Jaggi totally stumped.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Indian Brights' Society] : Why do anchors spoil the show at the end of a brilliant lecture by their needless superficial observations as final comment on the just concluded exposition?