LIP-SERVICE THAT TOUCHES NOT THE HEART NOR INSPIRES THE SINCERE ONES WHO REVERE OUR GREAT ONES---MUCH SOUND AND LITTLE LIGHT AS OF NOW, HOPEFULLY NOT TILL KINGDOM COME

LIP-SERVICE THAT TOUCHES NOT THE HEART NOR INSPIRES THE SINCERE ONES WHO REVERE OUR GREAT ONES---MUCH SOUND AND LITTLE LIGHT AS OF NOW, HOPEFULLY NOT TILL KINGDOM COME

Ministers these days pay lip-service to our great men and women on their birth and death anniversaries which is fair enough save for the fact that it is lip-service after all and not deeply felt reverence that seeks utterance thus. Levity continues in the Bengali political and cultural scene as Bengal turns on a new apparel to stage the show this time. It seems Swamiji was right when he had warned his fellow men to shift stance from sensate living to Sanskritised soulful living that exhibited manhood which the then dominant effeminacy of the race---now increased manifold and rendered toxic in proportion by Marxist materialistic infiltration of thought---had largely extinguished and tended to make Bengal, the place of left-handed degenerate Tantric worship, a land doomed to civilisational annihilation over the next three generations. Swamiji was largely proven right as post-Independence Bengal saw an Indic cultural collapse, the deliberate political replacement of its Sanātan heritage with Marxist everything that degenerated and destroyed Bengal's hopes. After 34 years of Marxist misrule and 15 more years of Trinamool mayhem and loot, the BJP has set itself to settling things in unsettled Bengal. But the way things are going with Ministers, led by the chief in office, off-limits in decibel doing and pouring puerile posts to please the polity, paying homage to past greats through standardised one-lined obituary on their birth and death days, and talking too much, so to say, on prospective projects, that too as if it is a shouting match, it seems unlikely that Bengal is as much on the rise as projected, nay, artlessly advertised by whosoever chances upon the media microphone. Bengal is indeed going through a cultural transition from atheistic-materialistic-leftist ideology which has paralysed her being and made her the opponents of nationalism to highly theistic-spiritualistic-rightist ideology that embraces nationalism and shuns not industry but welcomes them on paper. How much of it translates to reality, though, are the long reels to be seen after the bombastic trailers are over.

Written by Sugata Bose