'UNITY IN DIVERSITY' CLUB MEMBERS, ANSWER PLEASE

'UNITY IN DIVERSITY' CLUB MEMBERS, ANSWER PLEASE

I see open denunciation of the Sanatan Dharma, Hindutva, RSS and Hindu fanaticism by so-called liberals. But why do they remain mum on Islamic and Christian foundational intolerance and violence? Is pluralism to be taught to Hindus whose Dharma is essentially universal in scope or ought these wiseacres to shun hypocrisy and pull up---if they have the guts, that is---these two toxic Abrahamic religions for their embedded intolerance and violence which has drenched human history with blood and bludgeoned civilisations out of existence? Are these 'liberals' being honest about their reading of Indian history as well? Awaiting an answer from the members of the club called 'Unity in Diversity'.

Written by Sugata Bose

ARISE! AWAKE! ... 1

ARISE! AWAKE! ... 1

Swamiji wanted aggressive Hinduism---aggressive in the sense that Hindus must work as well with a missionary zeal and must stand up in defence of the Dharma, and not aggressive in the violent sense---by way of countering Christian evangelism and Islamic conversion work among the Hindus. He welcomed Christ-like figures but not corrupt converters of innocent Hindus to the Christian fold. 

Today we are faced with the triple menace of Islamic, Christian and Marxist conversion of Hindus at a steady rate. Islamic jihad is openly advocating the destruction of the kafir (infidel), the mushrik (polytheist), the murtadd (apostate) and the mulhid (atheist). Ghazwa-e-Hind is being openly proclaimed by way of issued fatwa by Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband as unfinished business scripturally mandated by Islam in Hindustan. In the wake of all this we should heed Swamiji's message of aggresive defence of the Dharma which is our only hope of collective survival as a race, as a civilisation and as a culture that promotes pluralism in its most universal intent and form. Instead of holding self-aware Hindus as violent ones bent on destruction of all contrary culture we should stand in solidarity with them to combat these corrosive forces of Islamic jihad, Christian evangelism and Marxist materialism in our vast Hindu body politic. Our unity is our strength, our infighting will be to our peril. 'Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached!'

Written by Sugata Bose

SMARANANANDA, BLISS OF MEMORY

SMARANANANDA, BLISS OF MEMORY

It was 1984. On the way back from Belur Math one evening I entered the Saradapeeth Meditation Hall and took my seat midway through a discourse of a middle-aged monk squatted on the floor in front of Sri Sri Ma Sarada Devi's installed photograph. The monk, I now gather, was then 54. But what he said caught my immediate attention and has remained etched in my nemory ever since, at first in a curiously incongruous way but later distilled in the clarity of consciousness. The monk was the Secretary of Saradapeeth, Swami Smaranananda, much thinner then and far less imposing than his later colossal figure post spiritual advancement to the highest realms of realisation. The words came through thus: "আপনারা যাঁকে ঠাকুর বলেন, ওই আত্মাই হচ্ছে ঠাকুর |" ["Who you all call Thakur, that Atman is Thakur."] This was simply incomprehensible at first how the peerless Paramahamsa despite his exalted status as Avatar, one who had a form and had attributes, could be the formless, attributeless Atman. Clarity came later after years, delusion dispelled. But the impact of those few words spoken with unmistakable clarity of vision was tremendous and it proved the power of the personality that uttered them.

Years later. 2007. Swamiji's birth anniversary celebration at his Ancestral House. Swami Smaranananda at 78 was now General Secretary of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. After Swami Jitatmananda, Secretary of Swamiji's Ancestral House, had delivered his inspiring address in which he went gaga over the settlement in Seattle and the contributions of meritorious Indian students to high-tech US industries, Swami Smaranananda rose to the podium. His manner of speech was so unlike his flamboyant younger brother monk. He said, "আমরা এতক্ষণ শুনলাম, মহারাজ বললেন, কেমন করে আমাদের দেশের সব ভাল ভাল ছেলেরা এমেরিকায় গিয়ে বড় বড় বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে পড়াশোনা শেষ করে ওদেশেই থেকে যাচ্ছে আর বড় বড় কোম্পানিতে কাজ করছে, অর্থ উপার্জন করছে, মানযশপ্রতিষ্ঠা পাচ্ছে | খুব ভাল কথা | কিন্তু আমার মনে হয় তারা যদি বিদেশে গিয়ে বিদ্যার্জন করার পর দেশে ফিরে আসে ও গ্রামে গ্রামে ছড়িয়ে পড়ে গরিব গ্রামবাসীর জীবনোন্নয়ন করে, তো আরো ভাল হয় |" ["We have just heard what Maharaj said how our meritorious students have been going to top American universities for higher studies and how after completion of study they are settling in that country and getting employed in top American business houses where they are earning money, name, fame and position. It is all well and good. But I feel if these students after acquiring higher education abroad return to their motherland and spread out in the villages in the service of the poor villagers, it will be even better."] The audience was surely taken aback by the frankness of his statement and moved by the simplicity of this sannyasi whose intense feeling for the suffering rural people impelled him to utter these soulful words. The direction of the mission of the Ramakrishna Order was once again set right by a seminal soul.

A couple of years later. 2009. My mother and I used to visit Belur Math on Sunday late afternoons. After the routine temple visits at the Math, we used to pay a visit to Swami Tattwasthananda (Bibhuti Maharaj) at Arogya Bhavan. One evening we had just prostrated before Sarada Ma's giant photograph at the ground floor of Arogya Bhavan when in came Swami Smaranananda (General Secretary, RKMM) with a couple of monks on some business. He seemed simply out of proportion, a giant of a man, a titanic soul, and we fell at his feet in reverence. It was some sort of a revelation, I should say, which reminds me now of 1987 when Swami Lokeshwarananda at Belur Math on Sri Ramakrishna's Tithipuja Day was flooded by a surging crowd of devotees after Swami Atmasthananda (then Assistant Secretary of RKMM) had suddenly darted ahead and fallen at his feet. That day it seemed that Lokeshwaranandaji was a divine being quite apart from ordinary mortals in terms of sheer size of spiritual personality. Smarananandaji evoked in 2009 at Arogya Bhavan a similar response. Only he seemed more removed from earthly aught, yet absolutely focussed on the executive work at hand, all power, yet all grace, as he received our prostration dispassionately and with no airs.

These are sporadic occasions, stray memories of Maharaj which remain like fresh flowers laid at the hallowed feet of his person only. 

'Smaranananda'---the bliss of memory. For him it was the bliss of memory of his beloved Lord Sri Ramakrishna but for us it is the bliss of memory of Maharaj himself, a simple man in a complex world, a natural in an artificial setting and a youth whose first love remained his last---Ramakrishna. 

Written by Sugata Bose

WHY FLATTER A LEADER IN A DUE DEMOCRACY?

WHY FLATTER A LEADER IN A DUE DEMOCRACY?

Why flatter the leader to make your way in politics? Let character have its full play instead. Why bend before a leader who does not bend in turn by way of gracious acknowledgement of your deference unto him? Why this self-abasement to appease your greed for gain under the pretext of service to the nation? Why this servility, this slavish cringing in the name of deference to a leader who certainly does not deserve such undue exhibition of sycophancy from colleagues and cadres that can only tarnish his public image? Or, is it a deliberate ploy to prop up electoral support in a polity that prefers the personality cult to pondering over policy? Whatever it is, it does not augur well for a party in the long run to overly emphasise its leader as it will surely flounder and fail to hold its own once the leader has retired or has otherwise been rendered irrelevant. No wonder Swamiji used to ever stress on principle and not personality when he spoke despite knowing very well the temperamental preference of the Indian public for personality. The hyper-adulation of Indira Gandhi by the Congress brought about its downfall post her demise despite the landslide sympathy victory of 1984. In  a like manner the hyper-projection of Narendra Modi as the face of the BJP and the NDA Union Government could spell the doom for the party once the Modi Era is gone. Personality cult always has its pitfalls and this is it---it does not allow lesser leaders of the hour to blossom into mature ones who may be ready to take over the reins of governance in equal measure once the current hyper-hyped one has retired. Food for thought, I hope, and a point to ponder.

Written by Sugata Bose

DO IT AS HE WISHED IT

DO IT AS HE WISHED IT

Our spiritual teachers must galvanise the youth with vigorous messages of Swami Vivekananda delivered in a robust manner with purity the bedrock of their utterances. It is, as Swamiji said, "Character that cleaves through adamantine walls of difficulties." The message should be manly, the manner manly and the overall personality of the preacher manly. Swamiji said, "My life's gospel can be summed up in one word---manhood." Swamiji had towards the end of his life said to Nivedita, "My mission is not Ramakrishna's nor Vedanta's nor anything but simply to bring MANHOOD to this people." This must be remembered by the monastic and the laity and Swamiji must be brought home to the emerging youth in accordance. They must be vivified by his message and their life's course altered towards a higher direction, not only that of self-development in the material sense (Abhyudyay) but also in the virile spiritual sense (Nihshreyas). 

Written by Sugata Bose

WAKE UP TO THE DANGER THAT FACES US AND ACT IN ACCORDANCE

WAKE UP TO THE DANGER THAT FACES US AND ACT IN ACCORDANCE 

Why does the Government of India not ban all such organisations and academic institutions that radicalise citizens unto taking up arms against the country? Why must a blind eye be turned to the fact that millions of children are brainwashed systematically on a regular basis with divisive principles based on archaic, absolutist, fanatical theological mandates? 

You allow intolerance at seed to grow and expect to root out terrorism in the shoot? That can never be. A complete overhauling of the academic training ground of future potential terrorism is needed with modern liberal education supplanting it. 

When the most major theological school announces Ghazwa-e-Hind, which is patently treasonous, as valid doctrine and a like institution declares 2047 as the year for setting up an Islamic state in India, it is portentous and demands heavy handling by the Government. A soft democratic approach cannot be the way to deal with such antinational forces and it needs total weeding out of such from our polity. 

Is the Government heeding the danger enough? Is the polity aware of such a dastardly design as these periodic pronouncements point to? 

It is time to act. A nationalistic education system must replace all such faith schools where the very faith mandates intolerance and violence, principles which are drummed into the heads of impressionable children to make them unthinking fanatics with the potential to cause a lot of social unrest at the least and destructive violence otherwise. Children of a single generation, if taught liberal principles and if shielded from dangerous theological doctrines in faith schools, can bring about a healthy change in society. What then remains is to impress upon parents and elderly family members not to indoctrinate their young ones with toxic religious doctrine that potentially trains innocents into radicalised rogues. 

Any religion that is by fundamental doctrine intolerant of other religions or dharmas and is in effect antinational must be treated as such and disallowed space in our country. In the name of democracy and 'unity in diversity' such evil ideologies cannot be allowed to flourish among sections of the polity. It is in our national interest and in our civilisational interest that we must foster the Sanatan spirit of inclusiveness in all our citizens and that can never be unless the intolerant faiths are weeded out of our national life. A tall order, but it must be done. Else, eternal India will one day live only in memory, perhaps, but will die a practical death. That must never be and we must see to it that such a cataclysm does not visit us anymore.

Vande Mataram! 🕉 

Written by Sugata Bose

MESSAGES GALORE ... 64

MESSAGES GALORE ... 64

1. The Hindu-Muslim problem would never have been had Islam been an inclusive religion and not intolerant of Hinduism.

2. স্বামীজীর বই না পড়ে পড়েই আজ দেশের এই দশা !

3. The intent becomes the execution, the cause transforms to the effect.

4. Thoughts are at base bubble-zero. And they burst to zero in to their base. The interim period is life in its transmigratory span.

5. 

Is there a dawn

Without hope reborn?

6. Spiritual organsations raise donations by the millions but pay their employees a pittance. Very unspiritual.

7. There was a time when the brain seemed blank. Now thoughts in never-ending stream keep teeming. When will the final blankness be?

8. God works silently, does not advertise.

9. Work is done by the three modes of Nature. Why does an individual claim such excessive credit for it? Spiritual ignorance.

10. Our hopes were dashed when Netaji disappeared. It would have been a different India otherwise.

11. Life rushes on. There is no time to stand, is it, and reflect? Then the essence has been missed in the current. Hang on awhile.

12. The sleepless mind dreams yet of a brighter dawn to be.

13. So long as scriptural hatred of infidels continues to be fed into the minds of millions by ritualistic observances, social solidarity can never be. National integration in such a scenario is mere wishful thinking. Over the last millennium it has never been and neither will it happen in the next. Archaic religious divisions must be discarded by disregarding these scriptural mandates or totally rejecting them. Then there is hope to begin with, for the devil of division will still persist, assuming newer modes. But this as of now must be done---a national narrative where there will be a least common denominator for all to subscribe to.

14. 

Birds of a different feather

Flying together. 

Hope at home

All is fair weather.

15. The contrast will be worth watching. As India develops at a gallop, Bengal lags behind in idle self-glorification.

16. ঠাকুরের কথা শুনে বিদ্যাসাগর অবাক !

17. নরেনের certificate ঠাকুরের হাতে |

18. The reconstruction of the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya is an epic event in India's chequered history.

19. There are four yogas : Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga and Raja Yoga. Likewise there are four bhogas : Jnana Bhoga, Bhakti Bhoga, Karma Bhoga and Raja Bhoga.

20. When was it that you laughed last?

21. In travelling is more time spent than in stay at the destination. Such is the law of sustenance at the summit.

22. Happy birthday, Abir! May Thakur-Ma-Swamiji shower their love on you to which we add our own. Be fulfilled. Be blessed. Love all. (23.03.2024)

23. 75% of the mind to God and 25% of it to the world is the Ramakrishna ratio of work (3:1) for sufficient sustenance in life.

24. "১৬ থেকে ৩০ বছর বয়স পর্যন্ত প্রকৃষ্ট সময় ঈশ্বরলাভের," বলেছেন রাজা মহারাজ |

25. ঠাকুরের কথা চিন্তা করলেই কল্যাণ | যত পারো করো |

26. The strong Sangh Parivar stands as the Rock of Resistance against the Islamisation of India.

27. মধুরভাব বুঝতে হলে দেহবুদ্ধিরহিত হওয়া আবশ্যক | নচেৎ, নিম্নচেতনায় ভ্রান্ত ধারণা অবশ্যই হবে | সাবধান !

28. কত লোককে যে লকার থেকে বার করে বন্ধু বানাতে হয়, তা আর বলবেন না |

29. ধৈর্য্য হচ্ছে মুখ্য জীবনে | ধৈর্য্যের অভাবে কত সমস্যা অহেতুক খাড়া হয় |

30. I love India's poor people. They are the hope of our motherland, not the rich boasters of wealth or the pretenders to prosperity.

31. 

গান -- রাগ খাম্বাজ, তাল দ্রুত দাদরা 

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তোমরা যে যা পারো দাও |

ওরে, লুটে পুটে নাও ||

বাণিজ্যেতে বড় আশা,

সরষে ফুলে সব কুয়াশা,

জ্যান্ত মরা জ্বালিয়ে তোরা

সব দিকেতে পাও ||

তোমরা যে যা পারো দাও |

ওরে, লুটে পুটে নাও ||

রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

32. ভণ্ডে ভরে গেল দেশ ধর্মের নামে | কেমন করে দেশ দাঁড়াবে ? কোথায় ধার্মিক ? কোথা ধর্ম ? মানুষকে ঠকানোর কত উপায় !

33. The very fact that you preach only one God and declare the multiplicity of divine manifestation as false proves your theological narrowness.

34. আরও একজনকে লকার থেকে বার করে বন্ধু বানালাম | খুব ভয় পেয়ে লক করে বসেছিল | টেনে বের করেছি |

35. কবে জাগবে বাংলা ?

36. গুরু, যোগী, ভগবান না সব ভণ্ড ! মানুষকে বোকা বানিয়ে আরামে জীবনযাপন | আর মূর্খের দল বোকা বনবার জন্য পাগল !

37. মানুষ সংস্কৃতে শিক্ষিত হলে আর এইসব গুরুবাবাজীদের করে খেতে হবে না |

38. এক সচ্চিদানন্দই গুরু | যিনি ব্রহ্মজ্ঞানী, তিনি গুরু | যিনি চাপরাসপ্রাপ্ত, তিনি গুরু | গুরু কি ভাই বুদ্ধির চাতুরী আর বাকচাতুর্যে হয় ? ও সব ভণ্ডের পাল্লায় পড়বেন না, ঠকে যাবেন | অবশ্য যাঁর ঠকার খুব ইচ্ছা, তাঁকে ঠেকায় কে ? এই রকমই তো বহুজন |

39. বিত্তবৃদ্ধিই যদি দেশের উন্নয়নের মূল উপাদান হয়, তো মূল্যবোধের অবক্ষয় অবধারিত | তার সাথই হবে দেশের অবনতি |

40. আবার লক থেকে বের করে বন্ধু বানালাম | কী জ্বালা রে বাবা !

41. 

যত সব মোদিবিরোধীর দল !

তোরা কি বলবি বল |

গালি দিয়েও পার পাবি না,

করে নানান ছল |

সব মোদিবিরোধীর দল |

ছড়াকার : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

42. 

Come, come, come.

Up in the sky beating drum,

Down excited tum aur hum,

Solar dawn's young chum,

Bachcha calling mum.

43. Why does the Government of India not ban all such organisations and academic institutions that radicalise citizens unto taking up arms against the country?

44. I want to die in the arms of raag music.

45. Sri Ramakrishna is the greatest teacher of this Age. His course, well followed, will make spiritual giants out of men and women.

46. I wish the Prime Minister studies Swami Vivekananda once more properly. It will do India a world of good.

47. শ্রীরামকৃষ্ণ এসেছিলেন যুগধর্মসংস্থাপনের জন্য ও অসত্যের নাশের নিমিত্ত কিন্তু আমরা তাঁর বাণী ঠিকমত না করতে পেরেছি গ্রহণ না করেছি তাঁর শিক্ষার অনুসরণ | তাই যুগপ্রয়োজন রয়েই গেছে | ঠাকুর তাই আবার আবির্ভূত হবেন জগতকে দিশা দেখাতে, দানব দমন করতে ও মানুষকে দেবত্বে প্রতিষ্ঠিত করতে |

48. নেতানেত্রীর অহংকারই তাঁদের পতনের কারণ | হাসতে জানা চাই, ভায়া | রামগড়ুরের ছানা হলে কি চলে ?

49. এখন বিশ্বলঘুতার যুগ চলছে | চরিত্রবান রাশভারী মানুষের বড়ই অভাব | সবই চপলচঞ্চলচিত্ত |

50. বিদ্যা আর অবিদ্যার সংমিশ্রণে জগত সঞ্চালিত হয় |

51. Is democracy in peril in India? What do you say?

52. Why are our Hindu temples under government control?

53. Let the leader set an example in simple living for his countrymen to follow. After all Gandhiji did it. Did he not?

54. Monks must not flatter the Prime Minister or the Chief Minister for whatever reason when the former visit their monasteries. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's dealing with Maharaj Prataprudra is a case in point which must be remembered. Swamiji also dealt with kings and queens with dignity, with head held high, and never once sold his venerable office to suit convenience.

55. Lambs are led by the leader. Men think for themselves.

56. The Judiciary must not be compromised in any way. That would violate the fundamental principle of 'Separation of Powers'.

57. I wish the PM faces a Press Conference one day. I cannot recall him as PM having faced one. Or is it a lapse of memory on my part?

58. Let us play the piano on the politician's brain instead of they beating the drums on us.

59. I know when the message-medicine works best. It is when the post is 'liked' least.

60. Don't play the fool in the name of Bhagavan Shiv. What will follow you'll not know. Shivsthhaan is the sacral plexus in the brain.

61. Over-hyping a leader leads to fast destruction of the party. Beware when you exhibit sycophancy before your much-hyped leader!

62. Would like to see some real ascetics propagate the Sanatan Dharma through personality vibration than any effeminate monk verbally attemting to do so. Scriptural elucidation notwithstanding, it is character that counts and it is spiritual vibration emanating from the soul on fire that cuts through barriers of ignorance to touch the hearts of people and transform them. Puerile preaching of philosophy hardly helps for it merely excites the idle curiosity of the lay person or at best weakly stimulates the mind of the intellectual but patently fails to transform human nature. It is all words in the end, idle words in an endless deliberation on the spiritual end of life, hollow words without substance of character lending them wholeness. Thus is it that spiritual lectures, insipid and uninspiring, fail to penetrate the depth-consciousness of the audience to any aspired end.

63. 'আমি' 'আমি' করা হল আমি যে প্রকৃতির দাস তারই বিরাট বিজ্ঞাপন |

64. Electoral Bond Scheme or Electoral Bond Scam?

65. 

হে নেতা, 

নেতাজী হওয়া সহজ নয় | চরিত্র চাই | ওই মালা পরাতেই থাকো | স্বামীজীর অনুগামী হওয়াও সহজ নয় | বাকসর্বস্ব হওয়া সম্ভব |

66. Why do people criticise Hindutvavaadis as intolerant when they are fighting the seeds of intolerance in Islam and Christianity?

67. Before you utter your next word against Hindutva read the Qur'an cover to cover. You will be the wiser for it.

68. ভক্তিতে নাচানাচি করে তরবারির শক্তিকে প্রতিহত করা যায় না | ভীরু, শিখ-মারাঠার ইতিহাস হতে সাহস শিক্ষা নাও | তারপর বোলো, 'জয় স্বামীজী !'

69. জাতি হিসেবে বাঁচতে হলে মরার জন্য সদা প্রস্তুত থাকতে হবে | বীর বাঁচে, কাপুরুষ নয় |

70. স্বামীজীর যথার্থ অনুগামী কে ? যিনি স্বধর্মরক্ষাকল্পে প্রাণ দিতে নিয়ত প্রস্তুত | যাঁর হৃদয়ে প্রতিটি হিন্দুর বেদনা তীব্রভাবে অনুভূত হয় | যিনি গর্ববোধ করেন হিন্দুরূপে, ভারতীয়রূপে, স্বদেশকে মাতৃজ্ঞানে আরাধনা করেন ও তাঁর ভাবী কল্যাণের নিমিত্ত আত্মোৎসর্গ করেন নিজেকে | যিনি উদার আদর্শের আড়ালে নিজের দুর্বলতা, কাপুরুষতাকে ঢাকেন না, দেব, মানব ও দানব, কারোরই স্তাবকতা করেন না, বীরের ন্যায় বাঁচেন আর বীরের ন্যায় মরেন | যিনি বুদ্ধিমান, পণ্ডিতমূর্খ নন---ভাবে, কথায় ও কাজে যাঁর ফাঁক থাকে না | যিনি ফাঁকি দেন না, ফাঁকেও পড়েন না---তিনি বিবেকানন্দভক্ত |

71. विकास ? किसका विकास ?

72. Our freedom fighters silently sacrificed their lives to free the motherland. Our politicians today are DYING to SERVE the nation.

73. Filthy exhibition of wealth by the super-rich must not be appreciated but ought to come by public censure.

74. সব মরিয়া হয়ে উঠেছে দেশসেবার জন্য | 

টিকিট চাই, টিকিট চাই, 

যে করেই হোক, টিকিট চাই | 

হোক না সে যে কোনো লোক | 

---প্যারডির সাঙ্গিতিক মূলাংশ রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুরের 'শ্যামা'র অনুকরণে |

75. Talent today has taken a beating in India as mediocrity rules the roost. And this beginning from the highest echelons of power.

76. Is the Union Government today the dictating boss of the nation's autonomous bodies as well? Then wither democracy?

77. RSSএর কর্মীদের বৌদ্ধিক বিকাশের প্রয়োজন | হিন্দুর স্বার্থরক্ষার জন্য এই আবশ্যকতা |

78. নেতা হবেন এমন যাঁর সামনে মাথা ওমনিই নত হয়ে যাবে | এ তো দেখছি সব যে যার স্বার্থরক্ষার জন্য কপট মাথা নত করছে |

79. 

গাধা ১ক্কে গাধা,

গাধা ২গুণে আধা |

এই এখনকার উল্টো নামতা বুদ্ধিবিকাশের |

80. 

আমি বেদান্তের বনে সকলের বোন |

ওরে, শোন তোরা শোন |

আমি দ্বন্দ্ববিহীন থাকি বেদান্তমন |

আমি বেদান্তের বনে সকলের বোন |

81. Nitin Gatkari was spot on when he said, "Now there is neither leftist nor rightist, just opportunist." Gatkari seems a good man.

82. 

প্রধানমন্ত্রী মহাশয়, 

আপনি তো ভারতের দ্রুত বিকাশের কথা বলছেন | মহামান্য, রাজনেতারা কবে চরিত্রগতভাবে একটু বিকশিত হবেন, বলতে পারেন ?

83. সে যুগে সিস্টার ক্রিস্টীনকে স্বামীজী বলেছিলেন, "দেশটা মরে গেছে, পচে গেছে |" আর এ যুগে স্বামীজী থাকলে কি বলতেন ?

84. Why bother about what the West thinks of us? Why do we need a patronising pat from the West? We ought to have national self-dignity.

85. When I watch NDTV I mourn the unceremonious takeover of the channel built by the blood and sweat of Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy.

86. Whither journalism today? All that goes on is pandemonium or a sycophantic licking of the boots of the ruling dispensation.

87. Why does Arnab Goswami shout so much, suddenly and in bursts? Does it make for good viewing? Is it anchoring or marketing 'news'?

88. Let the indecent not teach us decency.

89. In the last ten years India has made a civilisational self-discovery for sure but social culture has plummeted in its wake.

90. We need educated Prime Ministers and Chief Ministers. Academic qualification is a must for all disciplines. Why not in politics?

91. Megalomania is not leadership. 

92. It is strange how people's sympathies are limited along party lines. What a bondage of the heart! This is called sectarianism.

93. Is not democracy being subverted in India by over-concentration of political power in the hands of a single person?

94. Why this slavish mentality in us? Earlier it was the British master. Now it is the PM-CM Syndrome. Do we not have self-dignity?

95. The brighter politicians are 'corrupt' and the duller ones 'honest' and in charge of the state. A strange inversion of affairs!

96. Are communists liberal?

97. Democracy is always in danger when a single person concentrates all authority in himself and lambs bleat in praise of the leader.

98. India is sinking. There is an economic catastrophe looming unless brighter policies are adopted. But can a dull leadership do it?

99. Nitin Gatkari is a man of integrity. His ministry is doing great work in building excellent roadways across the country.

100. কর্তৃত্বের অভিমান থেকেই তো যত কষ্ট |