VIVEKANANDA THE WAY OUT ... 1

VIVEKANANDA THE WAY OUT ... 1

Vivekananda the only way out for our nation caught in cross-cultural conflict that so threatens its integration and feeds the fissiparous forces. But he must be preached with force and fire, with energy and zeal, without softening his message and sacrificing his explicit ideals at the altar of money and organisational interest, and without pandering to the vanities of the rich and the powerful. 

Character-building is the key and not fund-raising to transform the original mission of man-making to the altered agenda of architectural embellishment of a movement rapidly going wrong. Sri Ramakrishna's message, 'Money is clay, clay money,' (টাকা মাটি, মাটি টাকা') must never, under no circumstance be forgotten, neither the grand ideal of abstinence from the copper coin deriving from it ever forsaken. Swamiji had forewarned his followers that monastic orders come to grief the day they start hanging on to the sleeves of the rich. And so must Vivekananda's followers heed this warning and stay clear of monetary corruptions that ever seek to sneak into organisation in the guise of project necessity. Beware! 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose

আর তৈলমর্দন নয়

আর তৈলমর্দন নয়

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গণতন্ত্রে এহেন অসম ব্যক্তিপূজা অভিপ্রেত নয় | দিবারাত্র শীর্ষনেতানেত্রীকে তৈলমর্দন করার অভিপ্রায়ে যে কোনো কথার শুরুতেই তাঁদের নাম জপ করা রাজতন্ত্র ও সামন্ততন্ত্রেরই শামিল | এই ব্যক্তিপূজা জনহিতকর নয় কারণ তা মানুষকে নেতানেত্রীর প্রতি মোহান্ধ করার দুষ্ট প্রক্রিয়া ও প্রচার | আবরণী মায়া অবলম্বন করে পরিস্থিতির সত্যতা থেকে দৃষ্টি সরিয়ে নিয়ে শীর্ষনেতানেত্রীর প্রতি অবাস্তব বিশ্বাস স্থাপনের এই যে নিরন্তর প্রয়াস তা মানুষকে নিজের তথা সমাজ ও দেশের সঠিক চিত্রটি বুঝতে দেয় না | ফলে দুর্বৃত্তের শাসনের শিকার হতে হয় তাকে বারংবার | এর হাত থেকে নিস্তার একমাত্র বিষয়ভিত্তিক কথোপকথন, অনুষ্ঠিত নীতির পর্যালোচনা ও প্রকল্পসমূহের সম্ভাব্য ও ঘটিত ফলাফলের বিচারবিশ্লেষণ | 

শীর্ষনেতা অথবা নেত্রী আর পাঁচটা নাগরিকের ন্যায় সামান্য মানুষমাত্র | তাঁদের কল্পনালোকের গগনে স্থাপন করা অনভিপ্রেত | এই স্তাবকতার ফলে তাঁরা হিতাহিত জ্ঞানশূণ্য হয়ে পড়েন কালে যার বিষময় ফল দেশের সর্বনাশ সাধন করে | অতএব, নিজজীবনে ও জনজীবনে ব্যক্তিপূজার প্রাবল্য পরিহার করুন | আপনাদের ব্যষ্টিপ্রয়াসের দ্বারা সমষ্টির এই সমস্যা দূর হবে ও রাজ্যে তথা দেশে যথার্থ গণতন্ত্র প্রতিষ্ঠিত হয়ে সর্বকল্যাণ সাধন করবে | গণতন্ত্রের নামে একপ্রকার রাজতন্ত্রই চলেছে এযাবৎ | তার অন্ত্যেষ্টিক্রিয়া সম্পন্ন করে যথাযথ গণতন্ত্র প্রতিষ্ঠা করুন | বন্দেমাতরম্ ! 

রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

RAMAKRISHNA-VIVEKANANDA IS THE WAY

RAMAKRISHNA-VIVEKANANDA IS THE WAY

I cannot see how India may be unified but by the establishment of a common religion for one and all, and that must be the Vedanta which recognises the divinity of all. It seems that the message of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda, well absorbed, assimilated and implemented, will not only integrate India but humanise, divinise and lend solidarity to the world as well. Considering the antithetical religious and sociopolitical forces that are arrayed against each other as of now, this seems a tall order to achieve but it must come to pass in the fullness of time if with a clear vision, forthrightness and character, purity of purpose and strict adherence to original principles laid down by the Master and his anointed apostle, we pursue the goal. The end seems far but not quite so far as it seems as distance bridges overtime as awareness spreads and consciousness quickens to expedite fulfilment of the aspired end. 

The Vedanta of the Hindus must be the philosophical foundation of future humanity with the broad sympathy of the early Buddhists greasing the wheels of the movement, the charitable enterprise of the Christians lending the loving arm of service to humanity devoid of all pernicious proselytising instinct sullying the work, and the faithful, fraternal instinct of the Mohammedan, liberalised and extended beyond sectarian bounds and shorn of the violent fanaticism attending his militant religiopolitical attitude, supplementing and practicalising the pristine principles of the Vedanta in whose absence dry theory will render humanity sterile. All these and much more are implicit in the Master's pithy statement 'Yato mat tato path' (যত মত তত পথ) but they need to be expounded well in the wide world of men without organisational interest sullying the purity of the essential principle forming its fabric. Zealous preaching is necessary throughout the world, full of the fire of faith and free of fear, for humanity to learn and respond to this life-giving message that alone can foster peace and progress in our fractured suicidal world and usher humanity unto godhead. 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose

COMMENTS GALORE ... 46

COMMENTS GALORE ... 46

Sugata Bose @Ujjwal Sarkar : The six Vedic schools of thought:

1) Sankhya 2) Yoga 3) Nyaay 4) Vaisheshik 5) Mimangsa 6) Vedanta.

The three non-Vedic schools of thought:

1) Jaina 2) Bauddha 3) Charvak.

All nine schools are either Vedic or reactions to the Vedas, and are all elements of the massive composite called the Indian dharma tradition.

Sugata Bose @Tanmoy Lodh : But that requires the removal of the Abrahamic religions from India which are scripturally bound to discriminate between the believer and the infidel which is for all practical purposes an impossible task in the short run. The universalism of the Sanatan Dharma makes it ideal for the integration of India but then there are so many Indians who being adherents of other religions or subscribing to no religion at all are outside its ambit. Social cohesion can never be if Islam and Christianity continue to be aggressively proselytising and continue to use force, fraud, inducement and marital methods to undermine the Hindu polity. Hence, is your suggestion that forever Hindus must continue to concede ground by making undue compromises while Islam and Christianity continue to be intransigent in their stated scriptural stance carried to corrosive social practice that can never allow the Hindus to rest in peace as it has historically been the case? Yes, the government of a secular state must be religion-neutral in line with the principles of the Constitution but how long do you think the parliamentary democracy that we now have will last given the asymmetrical demographic change that we are witnessing with Muslim numbers alarmingly rising with their concomitant rising jihad of all forms? Will a Muslim majority population allow the survival and prosperity of non-Muslims in a Sharia-ruled state? What then? Whither integration in the distance and that too not too far? 🕉

Sugata Bose @Koenraad Elst : Swami Vivekananda's statement regarding this is proof of what I have said. It clearly reveals your ignorance of the deeper aspects of the Sanatan Dharma. Study Swamiji well and hopefully grow up from being a mere intellectual of sorts to a person of deeper spiritual realisation whose endpoint is of course the realisation of Brahman. Godspeed unto your intellectual and spiritual enlightenment!

Sugata Bose @Satyanand Bhattacharjee : Rammohan and Vidyasagar may not have worshipped 'earthen images' but Ramakrishna and Vivekananda did. The images are seemingly made of earth like the whole of phenomena is material but their essence is divine which you have failed to understand.

Sugata Bose @Satyanand Bhattacharjee : Raja Rammohan Roy and Dayananda Sarasvati being adherents of an aspect of the Vedanta and the Purva Mimangsa respectively were both Sanatanis. Both are on record as having regarded themselves as Hindus and not belonging to any sect extraneous to the Vedic Dharma. Image worship is not intrinsic to original Hinduism but is a Buddhistic evolutionary development which was historically adopted by the Hindus and thus became integral to its vast body politic. But acceptance of the Vedas as inviolable is fundamental to Hinduism which both these great Hindus to the hilt did. There are certain irrational secondary elements in the Vedas which Swami Vivekananda said need not be accepted but the essential elements are a sine qua non for all Hindus. Study Swamiji to get clarification. 🕉

P.S. Hinduism is not a dated dead system of thought but is a living tradition that keeps evolving round the central principles of the Vedas and as such the incorporation of image-worship does not take away its essential character which lies in its first principles of the transcendent Brahman, the immanent Brahman, Karma, transmigration of the embodied soul, the identity of the Atman and the Brahman, and the concept of Truth being One (transcendental) but the wise ones calling It variously (through name and form). ['Ekam sadvipraa bahudhaa vadanti.'] Monotheism is elemental but not essential to Hinduism as henotheism, pantheism, non-dualism, qualified non-dualism, dualism and other interpretations of the Vedas are also deemed systems within the Vedic Dharma. But all these systems are spiritual and none materialistic. This must be marked as the signature of the Sanatan Dharma. There has to be movement of the embodied being towards liberation that is Mukti or Moksha. One life, no Law of Karma, arbitrary dispensation of an overruling Deity who decides on heavenward or hellward destination of the soul based on its single life's deeds are not part of Hinduism.

The fundamental point is that Spirit and not matter determines the soul of the Sanatan Dharma, matter being deemed the seeming manifestation of the Spirit. To be a Hindu in the religious sense---as opposed to the loose civilisational and cultural sense---one must subscribe to its essential spiritual principles. Those that do not and yet claim that they are materialist Hindus are welcome in the all-embracing arms of the Dharma in its civilisational sense. Godspeed unto them towards realising that they too are the Spirit in apparent bondage of Maya! 🕉

Sugata Bose @Satyanand Bhattacharjee : The Brahmos follow the Upanishads and are therefore Sanatanis. The Arya Samaj follows the Vedas and, hence, are Sanatanis. If it is news to you, I can only congratulate you on receiving it. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Koenraad Elst : And all your spiritual ignorance will not add up to more than the material cipher which you seemingly stand on but in due course will be forced to shift stance and stand to discover your real roots in the eternal Vedas which are not poetic compositions but are revelations as Vivekananda has averred. Visit Vivekananda and learn. To quote Swamiji, "A man may be an intellectual giant but a spiritual babe." And I do not lend you such an exalted epithet as well. 🕉

P.S. 'The Paper on Hinduism' read out by Swami Vivekananda at the Chicago Parliament of Religions on 19 September, 1893, whose online link I have afforded you in my earliest comment in this stream is not pretentious quotation of authority but a sincere one in truth. Hence, your insincere stand in branding me as pretentious stands exposed. I say, return to Vivekananda and begin afresh by studying the rudiments of the Sanatan Dharma. Along with it reverentially meditate on the deeper aspects of the Dharma by coming out of your supposed intellectual cocoon. Religion is realisation, not mere reading of texts whose real read eludes understanding owing to the incapacity of 'the one seer (mental) can attempting to hold four seers of milk (that of knowledge)', to quote Sri Ramakrishna. Hence, your misapprehension of my writing and of my intention thereof, and my apprehension of what the Hindus are to learn about their Dharma from narratives set about it thus, as afforded by you above, for instance. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Satyanand Bhattacharjee : He was spiritually short-sighted as averred by Sri Ramakrishna. He was not a Brahmajnani and had, despite his highly estimable character, magnanimous heart and attainments as a social reformer, fallen short of witnessing the Eternal Witness within, the Atman that resides in the deepest cavity of the heart. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Satyanand Bhattacharjee : I have not questioned the integrity of Vidyasagar who I deeply revere but have merely stated, in response to your unending references to him in each and every comment of yours and here to your particular question posed to me, that he (Vidyasagar) was spiritually short-sighted in the sense that he had not realised the Self or the Atman. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Satyanand Bhattacharjee : So, were Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Shankaracharya and countless Self-realised souls dabbling in imagination whole life while the materialists have stood in reality? Can you prove the existence of this universe for that matter without presupposing your own existence? And you must remember that such a presupposition is not rational at all.

Sugata Bose @Nilanjan Chakraborty : Not at all. Jeevkotis can rise through sadhana or through divine grace to realisation of the Atman and even continue in the body as jeevanmukta (living-free) on return to the phenomenal plane post realisation.

Sugata Bose @Goutam Ghosh : Degeneracy of the times, sensuality spiralling downwards, materialism gone murky, perversion putting up the pretence of gender liberalism, effeminacy engendering social corruption, overall a despicable order of inverted ideals. (Reference to Bengali men dressing up as women and, that too, one scantily clad in upper inner wear.)

Sugata Bose @Tanmoy Lodh : Prospective scam (Electoral Bond) nipped in the bud by the Supreme Court of India.

P.S. However, dharma cannot be kept aside as it regulates ethical behaviour. Moreover, it is staple to Bharatvarsha, being its spirit and civilisational essence.

Sugata Bose @Satyanand Bhattacharjee : Kindly accept my pranam and continue the deliberations as before. Senior citizens like you, erudite and cultured, are of honourable intentions always and I hold such in high esteem ever. Feel free to communicate unhindered, unhestitant, and I shall respond in a like manner. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Satyanand Bhattacharjee : I think Debaprasad Bhattacharya here is referring to Vidyasagar's letter to the then English government. He himself can clarify best. Do hold your patience awhile for him to respond.

Sugata Bose @Koenraad Elst : Physics existed before the first principle of it was discovered. So also the Vedas have eternally existed. You are confusing a book called the 'Veda' with the body of spiritual knowledge called the 'Veda' in much the same way as someone may mistakenly identify a book called 'Physics' with the subject 'Physics' itself. 

Read the following passage from Swami Vivekananda's 'Paper on Hinduism' read out by him on 19 September, 1893 at the Chicago Parliament of Religions.

"The Hindus have received their religion through revelation, the Vedas. They hold that the Vedas are without beginning and without end. It may sound ludicrous to this audience, how a book can be without beginning or end. But by the Vedas no books are meant. They mean the accumulated treasury of spiritual laws discovered by different persons in different times. Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery, and would exist if all humanity forgot it, so is it with the laws that govern the spiritual world. The moral, ethical, and spiritual relations between soul and soul and between individual spirits and the Father of all spirits, were there before their discovery, and would remain even if we forgot them.

The discoverers of these laws are called Rishis, and we honour them as perfected beings..."

https://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/vivekananda/volume_1/addresses_at_the_parliament/v1_c1_paper_on_hinduism.htm

Sugata Bose @Koenraad Elst : Your spiritual ignorance is simply stunning. No amount of explanation can dispel, it seems, the material dross that has covered your consciousness and enveloped you in Mayic delusion of an inferior order that in its patent intransigence refuses to see the light that is all around. No wonder you sink to calling me names and resort to casting aspersions on my motives, adorning me with improper adjectives which is most unbecoming of a supposed gentleman and, worst of all, refusing to even comprehend the passage from Swami Vivekananda that I have quoted by way of explanation of what I mean. Hitting below the belt may suit you but is beneath my dignity. Irrational intransigence has simply no limits as is evident from your stubborn refusal to understand the import of what I have said. No wonder Swami Vivekananda had forewarned us, Hindus, that the day we sat at the feet of the westerners to learn the rudiments of our Dharma, that day this benighted race of ours would have become extinct. I had imagined that scholars like you would have better discretion, judgement and idea about the essentials of the Sanatan Dharma than you have unfortunately but in fulfilment of Swamiji's forewarning exhibited thus. Godspeed your understanding! 🕉

Sugata Bose @Koenraad Elst : Swami Vivekananda has averred what he has averred and you fail to understand or address it. You have not the spiritual experience to understand the point I am making and are making matter out of Spirit, mistaking the envelope for thd letter and the case for the content. Veda is the sum total of spiritual principles governing phenomena at its foundations and you fail to understand it because you are rooted in a rustic material interpretation of it. You have to study Swami Vivekananda thoroughly to dispel this delusion and remember Sri Ramakrishna's words that the 'Pundit' who has not an iota of renunciation can speak volumes of scriptural stuff without comprehending its essential significance. Renounce to read into the depths of the Dharma. May Sri Ramakrishna bless you! May Swami Vivekananda illumine your understanding! May the Spirit reveal unto you where It stands, shorn of seeming material superimposition! 🕉

Sugata Bose @Subhrajyoti Bhowmick :  Socialism in the Marxian system is the preliminary preparatory phase of the people's revolution and communism is its final phase in its ultimate evolution where the state, 'the organ of class rule' in Lenin's words, withers away as the ideal utopian socioeconomic order unfolds where there is a total absence of exploitation of the proletariat in any form and perfect order obtains. 

There are many versions of socialism, though, not all of which are Marxian but all of which are geared to alleviating the misery of the masses from capitalistic class exploitation. These several kinds you see in different countries the world over as 'left movements'. The welfare schemes that abound in Europe and to a lesser extent elsewhere are the result of such socialistic movements of the past and are democratic responses to the threat of communism that loomed over Europe post the publication of Marxian thought from mid-nineteenth century onwards. The Russian revolution of 1917 and Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe post World War II consolidated such European welfare measures in free Europe to avert the threat of the democratic state precipitating into a communist one.

Hinduism is a dharma which as such is independent of any socialistic content in the European sense of it as socialism is a materialistic philosophy while Hinduism is preeminently spiritual. The Ram Rajya of Gandhi is an Indian socialistic concept which is called Gandhian socialism but it lacks the rigour of economic thinking that can become practicable in the modern world. Even classical communism of Marx has become obsolete in today's highly evolved technological world where such Marxian absolute stipulations simply do not work. Marxism in the classical sense has failed everywhere and is now an outdated unscientific system as science itself has marched ahead of its Newtonian materialistic stand and is uncovering day by day the underlying realm of ideas that elude deterministic behaviour which is the scientific basis of Marxian thought.

Swami Vivekananda gave a lot of thought to this issue of class exploitation and concluded that in the coming age people's government will be everywhere which he called the advent of the 'Shudra Yug'. Now this could mean democracy as well as communism in its socialist connotation. More such systems are likely to develop where the people's voice will become more and more pronounced and their power exhibited progressively more.

With respect to crony capitalism, as obtains very much in India, it can only be said that this is in direct contravention of people's interests. Ambani's expenditure on family wedding, if well accounted for, is within legal bounds and cannot be countered as such but it certainly is a glaring pointer to the economic disparities that abound in a growing capitalistic state even with welfare pretensions. This worship of Mammon cannot be condoned as obtains in a society riddled with crass consumerism and this certainly is not in keeping with Sanatan principles. The shlok of the Upanishad 

'ईशावास्यमिदँ सर्वं यत्किञ्च जगत्यां जगत् ।

तेन त्यक्तेन भुञ्जीथाः मा गृधः कस्य स्विद्धनम् ।।' 

clearly enunciates what is incumbent upon Sanatanis and stands in direct opposition to what we are upto in our indulgent consumerist living whose extreme illustration is the aforesaid Ambani wedding's exhibitionist expenditure. Ethically, spiritually and socially this ought not to be if we are strict Hindus and abide by Upanishadic injunctions.

As the population of our country grows, despite GDP growth at whatever percentage, economic disparities will increase and social discontent seethe. Thus, we must devise ways and means to reduce disparity and bring in greater equitability of resource possession by all and sundry. Every such move adopted along Constitutional lines will be welcome but the intent must not be to secure power by wooing the electorate with insufficient and unsustainable doles. How it may be achieved is difficult to conceive all at once, for it is a complex socioeconomic problem and will need constant and continuous work at it, but, to return to rudiments, it must be by character-building of citizens through proper education along classical Indian lines suited to modern requirements, as Swamiji had envisaged. Hinduism in all its elaborate philosophy underscores the need to renounce and serve, as Swamiji had pointed out ('Renunciation and service are the twin national ideals. Intensify her in those channels and the rest will take care of itself.'---Swami Vivekananda), and this must be the basis for all of its practicalised socialism in whose absence there will be violent people's revolution overturning things unless of course through demographic turnabout---rather unlikely as of now and a long process at any rate should it ensue in the long run---order is restored better. Therefore, training of the individual to live a morally sound frugal life, as Hinduism enjoins, is step one of this complex collective build-up. So, let us begin with hope and assurance in our prospective progressive civilisation in line with classical conception and guided by the divine duo of the modern age, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda, whose message as well has sadly been missed in practical terms of late. 🕉

BENGAL, GO BACK TO VIVEKANANDA AS YOUR PREDECESSORS ONCE DID

BENGAL, GO BACK TO VIVEKANANDA AS YOUR PREDECESSORS ONCE DID 

Bengalis with the best of brains are the worst off today on account of their cowardice. Muscles, Swamiji said, was lacking in this race which induces perhaps this cowardice and encourages effeminacy, now masquerading as gender issues and all the rest. But the fact remains that in the event of an armed aggression by immoderate mobs, this song and dance culture, this soft sentimental poetry and pandering to puerile pleasure will not be of much use. Then they will suffer persecution meekly and become sacrificial lambs (read goats) like they have historically been which is why today you find every two out of three Bengalis as Muslims which is queer for a race that prides itself on culture and superior civilisation. This is why Swamiji was so irked by the soft sentimental, even erotic poetry of Tagore and never spared a word of praise for him although he lavished his praise on Michael Madhususan Dutt and Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay's vigorous writings that stirred the soul and awakened one's manhood. Swamiji even showed his frustration by saying that Chaitanyadev had made the whole of Bengal and Odisha effeminate with his devotional music and dance, although he reserved the highest regard for the saint for his renunciation and spiritual attainment. Swamiji wanted to awaken manhood among this effeminate race of Bengal and had famously said, "My life's work may be summed up in one word---manhood." It was to this end that he tirelessly worked and 'died in harness' and it was to this end that he wrote vigorous Bengali prose, exhorted the popularisation of dhrupad music and the training of the muscles of the youth in gymnasiums, not the modern ones where the youth flock to increase their physical appeal but in the classical ones where the Bengal revolutionaries assembled to train their muscles and mind to overthrow the British colonists. Swamiji was very much against effeminacy and this Bengali propensity to paralysing soft culture, holding it as the death-dealing dose that would make Bengal extinct in three generations. He was not much off the mark as Bengal perished in Partition in the third generation from his times and thereafter has been dragging on its wretched existence towards total Islamic, communist and sensual annihilation. Even some of the monks of the mission he founded have taken to this soft singing culture while some others exhibit at the podium an utter effeminacy of manners. Swamiji had in sheer frustration asked Bal Gangadhar Tilak who was visiting him at Belur Math in 1901 that if would be better if the latter were to settle in Bengal and preach his revolutionary political message among the sleeping Bengalis and if he himself were to relocate habitat in manly Maharashtra which would more vigorously respond to his virile Vedantic message. As it turned out, the duo did not change residence but within a year of Swamiji's death, Bengal started secret society revolutionary work on a massive scale and soon transformed into the active volcano of armed revolution. The manhood which Swamiji had awakened and which had fired up hundreds to embrace the hangman's noose in order to free the motherland died decades after Partition as Bengal gradually slid into soft poetry, silly music and debilitating dance culture till it has freshly degenerated into an emasculate existence. Now devotion is dance and dance is devotion and men increasingly becoming a queer hybrid of the two genders. Enough unto the day is the evil thereof. Return to Swamiji!

Written by Sugata Bose

এ কোন মন্বন্তর ?

এ কোন মন্বন্তর ? 

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দেশে কি যোগ্য মানুষ নেই যাঁরা রাজনৈতিক নেতৃত্ব দিতে পারেন ? এ কোন আকাল পড়ল দেশে, রাজ্যে যে এমন সব নেতানেতৃ যাঁদের প্রতি শ্রদ্ধা তো দূরের কথা, সামান্য সম্মানবোধটুকু পর্যন্ত অনায়াসে আসে না ? সব ব্যস্ত অর্থের লোভ দেখিয়ে ভোট কিনতে | বলে 'লাভার্থী' প্রকল্প | অর্থ অবশ্যই আছে কিন্তু লাভ নেই | কারণ তৃতীয় রিপুকে, অর্থাৎ লোভকে, প্রশ্রয় দিলে তা জনতার চরিত্র হনন করে যা দেশের পক্ষে কল্যাণকর নয় | বরং জিনিসপত্র যদি সুলভমূল্যে প্রাপ্ত হয় তো দেশবাসীর লাভ | নাটুকে বক্তৃতা দিয়ে, মিথ্যা সম্ভাষণ করে একে অপরের ওপর রাজনৈতিক বিফলতা ঢাকার প্রয়াস করলে রাজ্যের তথা দেশের কল্যাণ হয়না | যদি শীর্ষস্থানীয় নেতানেতৃরাই নীচ মনোভাবাপন্ন হন, হৃতচৈতন্য বিনষ্টচরিত্র হন, তো সামান্য মানুষের কি হাল হবে ? এই প্রতারণার প্রভাবে দেশ কোন দিকে চলেছে ? ভাববার বিষয় |জনতা, জাগো !

রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

WHERE THE PM IS LOSING HIS PLOT

WHERE THE PM IS LOSING HIS PLOT

The PM lacks in conviction in what he speaks because he has to manage too may roles in one person and the roles change every day letting him no respite. He must realise that there are limits to his performance which when attempted to be exceeded devitalises him, dilutes him and renders him unconvincing and sterile. His speeches have long been serially insipid, uninspiring and tailored to suit audiences without the fire of idealism that catches the imagination of the public. Winning elections is one thing and becoming the messiah of the masses quite another which is what his ideological mentors and he himself must have expected of him once upon a time. But that has sadly backfired owing to his adopting a lavish lifestyle with dandy-dressing and centring all attention on his person as if this is less a democracy and more a modern monarchy of sorts. This personalisation of a people's democracy is detrimental to its health and principles ought to take precedence over personality. 

Whatever one does leaves its mark on the soul and so has it been on our PM. The initial fire is gone owing to continuous change of roles and what remains now is a shadow of the original idealistic man, the man with an ideological mission, now much diluted, much more distracted by diverse adjustments which necessarily attend the ministerial head of a nation as vast and diverse as India. The PM must return to his ideological roots to remain relevant now and in the future. Else, he will have lost his plot for good. This is how stars rise and fall.

Written by Sugata Bose