COMMENTS GALORE ... 50

COMMENTS GALORE ... 50

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Sange Tanmoy with Dr. Shankar Kumar Chatterjee] : The less the interviewer is present, the more the interviewee will be free to present his facts and thoughts, his inferences and convictions thereof.

Sugata Bose @Chandra Kumar Bose It was Rash Behari Bose who had named the INA I brigades after Gandhi, Nehru and Azad and not Netaji who merely continued with those names in his INA II.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Sange Tanmoy with Dr. Mdhusudan Pal] Tanmoy, speak less about inconsequential things and speak more softly. You are speaking unduly in a high treble.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Kunal Bose with Kalyan Chakrabarty] : The interviewer must be better informed about history in order to duly interview a very well-informed person about a particular historical phase or personality of the freedom struggle.

The romantic allusion towards the end made by Kalyan Chakrabarty has typically eroded the sublimity of valour of the indomitable Rash Behari Bose. It is a shame that this propensity to effeminacy takes recourse to romanticism even when it concerns redoubtable revolutionaries and sullies through silly sentimentality the sterling sacrifices of these sublime souls.

Sugata Bose @Indibar Gurdas Mukherjee : Judgement ever shall be. Actions that affect human history are always judged by history and I have in my own insignificant way lent the gravitating pull to them. Action was theirs, judgement is mine, and it has been given due weightage in my mind over decades of reflection, rumination and rationalisation before it finds articulation in public.

Sugata Bose @Jayanti Rakshit : Speaking the truth about Gandhi is deemed criminal today. Is there a greater misfortune that can befall India?

Sugata Bose @Vidya K : And the truth is that they (Hindu saints and even such an exalted divine incarnation as Sri Ramakrishna) were ignorant of Abrahamic scriptures when they pronounced their verdict on Abrahamic religions which go completely contrary to what these scriptures speak,. And Abrahamic religions are scripture-bound in the truth they propound and which their followers are mandated to abide by.

Sugata Bose @Parag Kumar Mitra : 

তাই তো বসু, বিশ্বাস নহি |

অনুভব, সত্যানুভূতি,

বিশ্বাস নহে, হে বন্ধু |

বন্ধুর পথ, জন্মান্তরাবধি,

সংস্কারকৃত কর্মকলরব

শান্ত হবে যবে,

মুক্তি পাব তবে |

Sugata Bose @Goutam Ghosh : Netaji never married his German secretary Emilie Schenkl. It is a vicious concoction carried out to malign the great celibate hero of the freedom struggle to reduce his otherwise superhuman image to ordinary human proportions.

Sugata Bose @Samarbijoy Chakraborty : Yes, Sri Ramakrishna was ignorant of the essential tenets of the Islamic scriptural trinity, the Qur'an, the Hadees and the Sira. His knowledge of Islam was seemingly limited to what he had been instructed by his Sufi Guru Gobinda Ray who evidently did not teach him the intolerant tenets of classical Islam as enshrined in the Qur'an, neither may be he have had the occasion to do so as preceptor and pupil busied themselves in the communication of Sufi spiritual techniques and communion thereof with the God of Islam, Allah. Incidentally, Sufism is considered by orthodox Islam as heretical theology and Sufis branded as Kaffirs. That Sri Ramakrishna did practise Sufism could by commonsense inference imply that he had converted to Islam by pronouncing the Shahada 'La Ilaha Illallah Muhammadan Rasul-ul-lah' which his biographer Swami Prabhananda avers he most likely had done without elaborating on Sri Ramakrishna's later apostasising from Islam by re-practising all forms of the Sanatan Dharma. The facts are few, scattered and unconnected with no honest appraisal ever having been made on this phase of Sri Ramakrishna's sadhana, perhaps with a mind to catering to pseudo-universalism and with an eye to maintaining a longstanding superficial organisational stand on the validity of Ramakrishna's mahamantra 'Jato mawt tato pawth' without delving deep into its conditional corollaries which Ramakrishna and Vivekananda themselves had failed to do in the first place but which find copious counter-references in their works that would belie their own beliefs and utterances about the validity of classical Islam. A rigorous study of Islamic scripture and a comprehensive study of the works of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda would throw abundant light on how the very averment of the divine duo on the validity of Islam falls apart in the light of their own contrary assertions on the essential conditions for God-realisation. Now do not be puerile enough to suggest that God being unconditional, there cannot be any conditionality attached to witnessing His/Her/Its presence. Purity is the precondition, absolute purity without a trace of material dross infecting the aspiring mind. Ramakrishna often said, "Shame, hatred and fear haunting the mind, God-realisation is impossible." Well, the Qur'an is replete with references to how much the Momeen must fear Allah, how it is permissible to hold in lustful possession the women captured in war and how the Kaffir (infidel) ought to be hated, subjugated, extorted money from (Jizya) and even killed if, as not belonging to the 'People of the Book', he refuses to convert which was the fate reserved for our Hindu forefathers, eighty million of whom were slaughtered by the sword of Islam, our women molested, transported to Arabia where they were sold in the slave-markets, our people mass-converted and circumcised whose details were demanded by fanatical Islamic invaders and rulers, and meticulously chronicled by Islamic historians from whose accounts the horrific happenings in ruddy drops emerge. And yet these gory episodes Hindu spiritual organisations, scholars, sages and savants, and post-Independence the ruling dispensations have hidden from us out of ignorance and in pursuance of premeditated programme despite the horrors of Partition haunting us still. The average Hindu is no less culpable to this offence for his indolence in not making the necessary effort to know the fundamental tenets of Islam which even such a seminal sage as Ramakrishna declared as a true path to God. What more may be said than to aver Swamiji's paraphrasing of the Kathopanishad shlok 'Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached?" 🕉 

Sugata Bose @YouTube [I AM BOSE] : Kunal Bose needs to learn a modicum of civility before he interviews eminent and highly civil researchers on Netaji.

Kunal Bose's manner of talking is just short of rude. Unfortunate! His interruptions are unwarranted and unduly deflecting.

Irreverent anchor stooped to the point of insolence and mischievous intent. Kunal Bose must mend manners before he casts aspersions on seminal souls like Samar Guha based on superficial understanding and surface reading, perhaps mere hearsay. Shameful!

Dr. Jayanta Choudhury's love for Netaji is infectious. So is Amlan Kumar Ghosh's devotion. But Chandrachur Ghosh evidently lacks enough reverence for Netaji-Bhagavanji and the same applies to the moderator Kunal Bose. Moreover, Chandrachur Ghosh exudes extreme egotism which is apparent on his face and in his manner of speaking. The same applies to Kunal Bose. Clearly, this young brigade is attempting one upmanship on these veterans and failing miserably at it. Dr. Jayanta Choudhury's composure, calm assuredness and ammunition of facts and figures outmatches these relatively new entrants to the field of Netaji research. His bright, shining face bespeaks his boundless love for Netaji as if the leader has permeated his being through and through. Chandrachur Ghosh is a miserable match in this regard and as always is an assiduous avoider of a direct verbal conflict with this ardent researcher of formidable fame lest he be precipitated in an unseemly fashion by the latter.

P.S. The moment Dr. Jayanta Choudhury says that a declassified Central Government file indicates that Emilie-Anita is false, Chandrachur Ghosh out of nervousness bites his nails. A classic case of psychophysical behavioural exposure! This puts to shame the honesty and integrity of researchers who wilfully for whatever reason(s) present erroneous information before the public which sullies Netaji's unblemished character with carnal connection.

https://youtu.be/WBCMnnI7Es8?si=N1VkQdSL3mxASHRN

Sugata Bose @Antara Sadhu : থাকতেও পারে আবার নাও থাকতে পারে | শেষ জন্মে বৈরাগ্যের প্রাক্কালে পূর্বজন্মের কথা মনে পরে | তখন মনে হয়, "আরে, এতবার এলাম গেলাম কিন্তু কাজ (ঈশ্বরলাভ) তো হল না? তখনই 'যদহরেব বিরজেৎ তদহরেব প্রব্রজেৎ |'

Sugata Bose @Chandra Kumar Bose : Hindutva is Political Hinduism aimed at combating Political Islam. The newly constructed Ram Temple is not only a civilisational resurrection of the earlier demolished temple but the entire Ram Janmabhoomi Movement has also been a powerful symbol that has helped consolidate Hindu vote in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Hence, the partial reconstruction and hurried consecration of the temple in fulfilment of the election manifesto pledge of the BJP is one of the perceived tools of consolidating Hindu vote in favour of the ruling party. 

In India which is a preeminently spiritual/religious country religion works wonders with the mind of the masses and helps gain their stupendous support in a short time, a feat otherwise attainable only with prolonged hard work and genuine improvement of the life of the people. As such political parties of all persuasions resort to this policy of gaining mass support for themselves by quickening religious passions, ideally speaking a wholly unwholesome practice but very workable in gullible India where dishing out delectable deflections of the Divine is deemed the easiest way to wooing public support at the ballot box. Gandhiji used it, so did Jinnah. Netaji was the leading exception to it who kept religion and politics strictly separate which is the ideal of secularism. Post-Independence nearly all major political parties have in lesser or greater degree used religion and its derivatives to win support wherever possible. 

The Hindutva Movement, though, is primarily a religious civilisational movement right from its inception to which political stalwarts like Lala Lajpat Rai, Swami Shraddhanand, Madan Mohan Malaviya , Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, Dr. Syamaprasad Mookerjee and even the redoubtable revolutionary Rash Behari Bose belonged, in lesser or gteater degree, Rash Behari having established Japan's first Hindu Mahasabha centre, although his politics was unmixed with religion. 

The Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha, the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangha and the Jana Sangha which was later christianed the Bharatiya Janata Party have their ideology rooted in religion, that is, the Sanatan Dharma for the sake of clarified understanding. The Islamic conquest and rule of the Indian subcontinent in parts, smaller and larger, over centuries with its untold barbarism resulting in the historical genocide of 80 million Hindus, mass conversion by the sword of Islam, mass transportation of Hindu women and their sale in Arab slave markets, the destruction of Hindu sacred sites, temples and libraries and literally the subversion of Sanatan culture for centuries built up overtime in the mass Hindu consciousness a reaction, seething but never quite systematically getting the outlet to gush out. This was provided by the Hindu Mahasabha and the RSS and has now been politically consolidated by the BJP for bringing to fruition a Hindu civilisational revival of sorts. This is the perceived goal of the Hindutva Movement which the ruling dispensation is attempting to fulfil which is where the construction of the Ram Mandir fits in. Whether this is going to eventually raise or lower Indian civilisation is for time to tell. But this is seemingly the intent, a bit of a confused endeavour in a fast-changing modern world where on one side is the demographic challenge from the Muslims that will have to be met and the fast-paced scientific-technological evolution of developed nations on the other that will have to be kept pace with. 

Eventually it may be argued that the basic economic necessities of man matter more than Mandir but then this is age-old India and this is perceived by Hindutvavaadis to be in the best civilisational interests of the nation. How far it will be successful in striking the golden mean of civilisational renaissance and of socioeconomic development along nationalistic lines is the moot question which only the passage of time can answer. But the connection of religion and politics has by now been well established, I hope, from the above discussion whether you agree with its efficacy or not. Political expediency apart, the BJP is committed ideologically, as stated above, to its core principle of the protection and preservation of a millenia old Sanatan culture and Dharma whose defence they believe is their holy duty. Here Swami Vivekananda serves as their inspiration, for in the seminal sage's works there are umpteen references of the absolute imperative of such a Hindu renaissance, albeit with a wider and more universal vision. But the commandment to that effect in religious terms---not political terms, as such explicitly---is right there in Swamiji's speeches and writings which serves as the mainspring of inspiration and the higher validation of Hindutva for all such allies and associates of the Hindutva Movement. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Amlan Kusum Ghosh : What a talent! Bordering on genius. Versatility at its best. Sculptor, author, narrator, film-maker, activist, spiritual seeker, friend, philosopher, guide---what an assortment of attributes in a single personality, verily a dying ember of the Renaissance of Bengal! Rare indeed such singular gifts are bestowed on a single individual and blessed are you to have been such a prized one. 🕉

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Sange Tanmoy] : One slogan of 'Jai Hind' at the expense of 'Vande Mataram' is appeasement enough of the uncompromising, unbendable, intransigent Muslims in the INA as elsewhere. Hardly an effort in the right direction based on courage of conviction and a betrayal of the blood of martyrs spilled with 'Vande Mataram' on their dying lips.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Sange Tanmoy] : Your work, Tanmoy, is commendable, especially since you are an incisive questioner that helps elicit vital information about freedom fighters from renowned researchers and scholars. You allow your interviewees unrestricted time for their full play of reflection and recounting of episodes past as opposed to many others one witnesses as unduly interrupting the free flow of reminiscence. This makes your videos more watchable and more informative. Also, the wide spectrum of people you interview lends added value to your uploads. Overall, to reiterate, it's been commendable work thus far. Looking forward to further forays into the secrets of our freedom struggle with your judicious choice of interviewees and wise discretion in interviewing. May Swamiji grace your endeavour with success! 🕉

This gentleman, Dr.Debashish Majumdar, is wonderfully articulate. He hardly minces his words and his oratorical flow is incredible. How concise is his expression, how precise and how packed with relevant data! The audience is kept captivated by his verbal outflow rendered in superb diction. After a long time has one heard someone with such a torrent of words like accurate darts striking the target much like the revolutionaries did in their daring deeds against the mighty colonial adversary. Tanmoy, bring this speaker par excellence over and over again to quench our now quickened thirst about the known and unknown facts of our freedom struggle.

Sugata Bose @YouTube [Sangam Talks---Sanjeev Sanyal] : It is not AHILYA BAI but AHALYA BAI. That is the correct Sanskrit word. The later linguistic aberration is unfortunate and now needs to be done away with.

'A chap called Rajendra Lahiri, also a grand uncle of mine'---such irreverence towards such a great revolutionary by a puny descendant? Not 'a chap' but 'a gentleman' or at least 'a youth' or 'a young man'.