COMMENTS GALORE ... 41

COMMENTS GALORE ... 41

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Kolkata Literary Meet] : Javed Akhtar has taken too much of the time, almost the whole of it, reducing other panelists to being mere audience to his seemingly never-ending oration. This is terribly unfair, a one-sided affair that has reduced a panel discussion to a monlogue, however stimulating in intellectual content it may have been. Javed Akhtar has even of the cuff taken undue precedence in answering questions from the audience. It seems he has had a mistaken notion of the Meet and has taken it to be 'Javed Akhtar Literary Meet'. Moderation by Mir ought to have taken care of this unseemly anomaly. The audience has been thus deprived of a possible second or even third round of rollicking rolling discussion that would have added flavour to the Meet. In actual effect such a possibility has been waylaid by a single speaker of much knowledge that despite it has made a mockery of a Meet. Such self-centring of group discussion literally should not be allowed at a literary meet.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [MFC 1858] : This thing about Bradman having fallen short by 4 runs to have a career batting average of 100 runs per completed innings overlooks the fact that almost throughout his career he kept averaging well over 100. His average stood at 105 before his last Test series against England and it stood at 101 before his final innings which is why he needed only 4 runs to finish with a fallen average of 100 which, alas, was never to be and which has led to this misperception about he having failed to reach that pinnacle of glory in the final analysis. A baseless understanding of the great man's lifetime batting achievement, a testament to popular unreasearched shallow estimate of things.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Jaipur Literary Festival] : Rajdeep Sardesai talks for too long depriving other speakers of legitimate talk-time.

It's a Rajdeep Sardesai show to the dismay of Gideon Haigh who hardly gets any chance to speak. What a wasted opportunity! Rajdeep Sardesai typically spoils every such show with his superficial talk. He evidently is a great fan of his own speech.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [The Print] : Why does the anchor (Shekhar Gupta) move his hands so much? Such body language is unwarranted where words ought to do the job.

Sugata Bose @Parnika Bubna : Do not worry. Mother is always holding you. Live your life creatively, expressing yourself freely, exercising your will and, so, strengthening it, manifesting your prodigious powers to the fullest.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Sky Sports Retro] : Murali, not Warne, is the greatest bowler of this generation by miles.

Sugata Bose @Kevin Chowdhury : Hard work, harder work, and even harder work to the exclusion of all frivolous distractions of life alone pays. Do it and success will be yours.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Jai Galagali] : Compare the lovely opening music that was afforded with the Australian telecast compared with the pedestrian ones that you provide at the start of some of your videos. While the batsmen rectify their stance as per the prevailing playing conditions, I request you to rectify your musical stance that is primarily aimed at attracting crude public attention. This ought not to be.

Sugata Bose @Tendulkar is a dull fellow who makes insipid comments. Compare that with Dravid's sharp incisive comments and you'll see the difference. Ganguly is another bore of an intellect, superficial and quite innocent of the history of this great game. Tendulkar is a great batsman but a terribly shallow intellect. Listening to him is painfully detrimental to one's intellectual faculties. 

Sugata Bose @YouTube : Ponting's a shame unto the game! Period.

Sugata Bose @Antara Sadhu : Nice original interpretation of my statement. You have a capacity for lateral thinking, sign of an intelligent brain. But my import was otherwise, along quite a different direction altogether.

Sugata Bose @Ratul Roy : Saddened to hear this. My mental final prostration at Mesomoshai's lotus feet. Stay peaceful in loving memory of the dear departed. 🕉

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Random Dawah] : Was this an inter-fath meet designed to prove the superiority of a particular religion by any means? What was the underlying motive? Cheap quotation tactics by Naik to prove his point. This is despicable, most uncivil culture. The philosophical point is more pertinent. Memory-juggling is not spirituality. Such memorising and consequent quotation of a few verses and stating the chapter and verse number may please the public but does not advance one spiritually nor does it prove one's philosophical point in any way. These are populist measures designed to stun the gullible public ever ready to gobble up gibberish dished out at them by clever manipulators of their mind.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Random Dawah] : Zakir Naik is a master misinterpreter of the Bible as is customary of his kind. He was set straight by Swami Golakanandaji who towered above his lowly level.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Random Dawah] : Father is a cultured person. His refinement far transcends Naik's unseemly offensive. His cultured repose was a fitting response to Naik's vituperation.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Random Dawah] : 'Judge the tree by the fruit.' So says the old adage. And that is the apt method of judging the relative merits of the religions under consideration in this meet. The fruits are sweet, bland and toxic. Now judge for yourself which is which.

Sugata Bose @Random Dawah : What a cartoon of a character still preaching the supposed superiority of his political faith after a sizeable sizing up by the Swami!

Sugata Bose @Random Dawah : Stop telling God what to do and what not to do. He is free to do as He pleases without consulting you.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Enlightened by Sadhguru] : The young lady has jacked this 'guru'. He is so disconcerted that he has resorted to threatening her with hosts of cases which is a despicable way to respond to an honest question. Is might right even in the spiritual world or is it not spirituality after all that is being so marketed?

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Sadhuguru And] : Rubbish! Adi Shankaracharya, Ramanujacharya, Guru Nanak, Sri Chaitanya, Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda are a few more among many divine incarnations and prophets who have graced this earth post the advent of Islam which effectively gives the lie to the statement that Muhammad is the last prophet that the world has seen.

Sugata Bose @Chaitanyadeb Das : Rejoice that Shree Ram will reign in Ayodhya once again in His newest incarnation which is in keeping with the oldest tradition dating from millenia, way back into remotest antiquity.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Sportstar] : What a shallow audience! Laughing at Kallicharan's poverty situation that left him with no food at night.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Franciscan University of Steubenville] : Islam and Christianity are ever at loggerheads with each other because each is an expansionist proselytising faith which objective makes them necessarily antagonistic to each other. Ramakrishna exhorts all to proceed along their individual paths on to God. Spiritual realisation is the key, not converting others to one's fold. Here lies the harmony.

Sugata Bose @Parnika Bubna/Gupta : You are doing yeoman service to the motherland by helping me glean invaluable information about our culture and heritage which is spurring me on to awaken our sleeping Hindu brethren into feeling a sense of rightful pride in their antiquity as Hindu civilisational recovery takes place in the coming decades and centuries. This invaluable support, a la patronage in the rightful sense, is befitting the best of souls that you are and is enshrining your name in the bosom of the great Mother who we fondly address as Bharat Mata. Thanking you will be selling short my indebtedness and your selfless philanthropy. I can express my gratitude in doing justice to the literature that has been made available to me and in serving our motherland in the rightful way by her blessings. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Rudranshu Singh : Learn the spelling of 'Gregorian calendar' first before you speak ji.

Sugata Bose @Rudranshu Singh : Your phone is naughty. It is still playing the fool with calendar and typing it somehow as CALLANDER, and too in two places. You must scold your phone.

Sugata Bose @Rudranshu Singh : Thank you for taking the cue of spelling from me. My IQ helped, you see.

Sugata Bose @Rudranshu Singh : There is no theocratic bigotry anywhere. It is a Sanatan civilisational resurgence, a renaissance that has long been in wait and is now finding fulfilment owing to karmic thrusts ushering in a new age where the Vedas will overspread the world with the message of peace and harmony.

Sugata Bose @Ashit Kumar Pal : Neither am I a relation of Netaji nor do I feel honoured by any such association barring my own familial one, neither am I to be fettered by any in making my observations.

Sugata Bose @Bratisankar Ghosh : It is unbecoming of a gentleman to call another a 'campaigner' by way of first address.

Sugata Bose @Rudranshu Singh : Had rectified it before your comment in response appeared. Evidently it was a typographical error. Nonetheless, thanks for reminding.

P.S. You have made grammatical errors in your comment. It ought to be: Sugata Bose, you have typed 'yout' instead of 'your'.

Nevertheless, you are a good soul, humble and nice, and it endears me to find a fellow countryman to be so, especially in these days of caustic commenting with a malicious slant.

Sugata Bose @Ashit Kumar Pal : Where do you find medieval darkness in illumination of our homes and hearts with the diyas of Deepavali?

Sugata Bose @Inderjeet Singh : Thank you, brother. Such appreciation is rare amongst those who follow my page and when it comes, it is a refreshing spring breeze with its fragrant appeal. Jai Shree Ram!

Sugata Bose @Joydeep Ghosh : The force of history will bring about inevitable amendments. Besides, the baby must not be thrown away with the bathwater. That will prove catastrophic. Evolution must be enlightened. Else, there will be a civilisational collapse and that must never be. Hatred towards Hindutva must not blind one's vision as to pass caustic comments casually. Better scholarship would deem it otherwise. Hence, depth study and clarification of the mind are necessary. Character must be built upon solid spiritual foundations on the bedrock of purity and adherence to the utterances of ancient, medieval and modern sages and divine incarnations.

Sugata Bose @Subhasish Papan Ghosh : Not at all, my friend. You are a critic with a cause and humorous too. Do keep enlivening proceedings as before. Welcome to the world of words.

Sugata Bose @Sreekanth Madhavan : Yes, she (Mother Teresa) is to be praised where praise is due. But her conversions of Hindus to Christianity I am opposed to.

Sugata Bose @Chanda Aniruddha : Read 'The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda' thoroughly and you will realise the spiritual essence of Bharatvarsha better. Your understanding of the epics is partial, flawed and slanted. Better sense will prevail with a thorough grounding in Swamiji.

Sugata Bose @Chanda Aniruddha : I make copious posts and have been making so for years on diverse issues concerning the civilisational concerns of the country. But busybody that you are, you have not had the time, occasion or opportunity to read them. Hence, the fault lies not with me, my friend, but in your unavailability on that count. Better by far will be from now to vent your emotions after having studied someone's writings for years. As it is, I can clearly see where your opposition to my writings is coming from, your intents and motives being clear as daylight to any discerning reader.

Sugata Bose @Subhasish Papan Ghosh :  Why do you persist with imagination running riot in your estimation about others with flawed analysis of statements made, as in this case? Is it not saner to read right and respond in accordance? Why pick up a verbal feud where none is due? This is precisely the reason why your comments, sarcastic and often caustic as they are, and out of place in especial, must not be responded to.

Sugata Bose @Anirban Chanda : From the study of Swamiji. Study his Complete Works well and you will also be privy to such sparkling gems strewn across that sublime body of literature.

Sugata Bose @Subhasish Papan Ghosh : India is developing fast. But India is a vast country and with a multitude of antinational forces and indolent agencies of negation and inner erosion that is delaying development. Also, exploding population is a major inhibitor of human development.

Sugata Bose @Goutam Mukherjee : Your steadfastness in support moves me. Amidst the melee of malicious contrivers insinuating unfounded motives and making caustic observations to suit their partisan leanings, yours has been the support of sanity---calm, distilled, courteous and constant, an illustration unto others as to what culture and good grooming is all about. Thank you, my friend, for your steady support. It does help in disseminating the message of truth and light which is what I aspire to always do, gleaning my inspiration from the pages of savants and sages whose lives are their best legacy bequeathed unto us. Jai Swamiji! Vande Mataram!

Sugata Bose @Subhasish Papan Ghosh : Because everybody is not fitted for every job. They have their assigned roles in life and I am pursuing mine in my own way. Politics is not my cup of tea, although many have unduly insinuated on me that I am pursuing through my writings a political course of things which I emphatically deny. To do party politics is to be partisan and, so, lose independence of articulation which as a writer I cannot subscribe to. Moreover, politics involves compromises and speaking falsehoods which I cannot bring myself to doing. I hope this makes it all very clear and satisfies your curiosity about my doings, active and potential. May Sri Ramakrishna bless you!

Sugata Bose @Prabir Bhattacharya : Strange observation considering the facts that pertain to me which is a pointer to the other fact of casualness and lack of study of a subject that characterises so many of my caustic countrymen, immersed as they are in self-indulgence about estimation of others.

Sugata Bose @Rudranshu Singh : Are you questioning your question? You have given the double question mark.

Sugata Bose @Joy Kumar De : Self-promotion is done only by him in India? Is it not a national menace today with its toxic effect consuming the public discourse?

Sugata Bose @Subhasish Papan Ghosh : Most communist leaders in India pursue simple living but all of them pursue slanted thinking along Marxist lines. Some, like Hiren Mukerjee, of course, have led highly frugal lives of exceptional character excellence with very exalted thinking, being philosophically erudite and culturally integrated at a reasonable Marxist distance, though. Such have really been role models of the motto 'simple living and high thinking'.

Sugata Bose @Rudranshu Singh : No, not at all. I choose not to be interviewed by you about my personal data. I do not entertain extraneous questions, especially from someone as unsympathetic as you about the Sanatan cause. But I do appreciate your sense of humour and general civility which is in scarcity these days.

Sugata Bose @Prabhakar Rao : Swamiji always explains like this. You are blessed that you read him. More strength to you.

Sugata Bose @Rudranshu Singh : Said it in an utterly ungentlemanly manner that is characteristic of the caustic critic, your observation replete with unsympathetic attributes unceremoniously ascribed to me. But then that is what is expected of one who cannot read enough into the import of my copious posts but expects me to furnish him with extra material in the comment stream as per the dictates of his wishes. Well, you may entertain whatever opinion of me you wish but shall be denied the privilege of eliciting responses as per your fancies. I am not here to humour your preferences in making my posts but shall do them as I deem it best. Civility is a virtue that gentlemen value and I set a premium to it notwithstanding your opinions of me. May Sri Ramakrishna bless you!