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Saturday, 13 April 2024
Friday, 12 April 2024
COMMENTS GALORE ... 51
COMMENTS GALORE ... 51
Sugata Bose @Aumlan Guha : Solid reply. Hindus should study the Islamic scriptural trinity of the Qur'an, the Hadees and the Sira before blabbering about universalism and Sanatan acceptance of all creeds. There is a common misconception that the Sanatan Dharma endorses murderous cults. It is not so. Scriptural ignorance induces gullible Hindus to have such foolish conceptions about the intent of these two Abrahamic religions, namely, Islam and Christianity, whose ultimate aim is the destruction of all other religions and the establishment of their unhindered hegemony in the world. To lend forth a fraternal arm towards these maliciously motivated religions becomes the fool's indulgence in his imagined Paradise. Hence, instead of being superficial in study and understanding thereof, Hindus 🕉 should dive deep not only in their inner selves to discover the Self (Atman) but should study the Islamic scriptures thoroughly to dispel all such delusions about Islam's brotherly feelings towards kafirs that today confounds their comprehension about culturally corrosive contrarian religions whose historical legacy has been murder of Hindus and Hinduism, desecration and destruction of their sacred sites, temples and libraries, mass conversion by the sword, carrying off Hindu women to be sold in Arab slave markets and the overall replacement of Sanatan civilisation with alien Arab barbarism. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Indrani Ganguly : He/she who thinks of himself/herself as the body and the mind is trapped in the cycle of birth and rebirth, that is, the transmigration of the embodied soul. Thus, for him/her there is not only this birth but future birth(s) as well. On the contrary, he/she who has transcended his/her identity as the body and the mind, and has experienced nirvikalpa samadhi (the unconditioned spiritual state of transcendence) has witnessed phenomena as a vanishing dream, utterly false in existential terms of permanence. Such a seminal one, for whom the universe stands falsified, no more sees himself/herself as an embodied being subject to birth, death, rebirth and redeath till Kingdom come. For him/her there is no more the validity of this birth which is born in ignorance and, hence, stands nullified. How then can there be an afterlife or a rebirth when the roots of the prospective shoots have been withdrawn unto the Vast Void? 🕉
Sugata Bose @YouTube [I AM BOSE--Kunal Bose] : The initial beating sound is most disturbing, musically utterly disjoint, aesthetically inappropriate. Please discontinue with it by editing it out if possible.
Sugata Bose @Kumar Swapan : You and your self-conceit. Presumptuous!
Sugata Bose @সারদামায়ের দুষ্টছেলে মন্ডল আশুতোষ : What do you mean and why should my affairs bother you so?
Sugata Bose @Arghyaprana Mataji Ketaki : You will feel it (divine vibration in the cited Himalayan cave) far more if you go inline instead of online.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [SAUJANYA---Dr. Madhusudan Pal (interviewee) and Amlan Kusum Ghosh (interviewer)] : Inconclusive, incoherent discussion based on puerile propositions, silly date-mongering in search of scewed parallels between physics and Netaji, self-satisfying assertions by the interviewee as if in a supremacist mode of higher understanding, this video has sadly been an exercise in abysmal failure to address reason and the seeking mind keen on understanding the cross-arguments in favour of and against the happening or otherwise of the alleged marriage. Overall, a supercilious exhibition of omniscience of sorts on the part of the interviewee that leaves no doubt in the minds of rationally disposed members of the audience that prejudice and overestimation of self can make a dangerous combination that can erode understanding and make for averments that betray reasonableness and endow a contrary fantasizing that borders on the ridiculous. Not that this observation so scathingly made implies that its author buys into the alleged marriage of Netaji as gospel truth but that he expresses his disappointment at such a shallow exhibition in dialogic discourse regarding the same. Surely, Netaji deserves better. The marriage mystery needs better exposition from truly superior minds and not inarticulate dispositions from self-supposing ones. Vande Mataram!
https://youtu.be/cHP5hAz9koY?si=7frzWDO0AdR7xoWL
Sugata Bose @YouTube [NewsX Live] : Subramanian Swamy does not know anything about Netaji in any substantive detail. His knowledge of history is scrappy and erroneous.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [Asheesh Pandey] : Startling revelation by Captain Abbas Ali of he and his fellow INA soldiers having been addressed in Singapore by Netaji exactly ten days after his alleged death on 18 August, 1945 at Taihoku. Listen from 6 minute onwards for a minute or so and verify it for yourself.
Indians, especially those belonging to the families of leading freedom fighters who also bask in the glory of their great ancestors, listen from 10.45 minute to hang your heads in shame about your settling in England, the land of those who had oppressed India for so long. Captain Abbas Ali has a lesson to teach you in patriotism and love for the motherland.
https://youtu.be/kfoCpeBAHb0?si=4vS1txmT9rY2dzjn
Sugata Bose @Tanmoy Lodh/Sohan Lal : This was the score of the Congress Working Committee that was commissioned to elect the prospective Prime Minister in dependent India, a verdict that was at Nehru's behest overruled by Gandhi and Nehru installed as PM. Hence, the significance of the cartoon.
P.S. It takes a bit of knowledge of history and a sufficient sense of humour to appreciate the birth and life of a cartoon, an attribute sadly in decline in a declining culture where applause and denunciation are both born in partisan takes on issues. Alas, cartoonists are even gunned down as in Charlie Hebdo and in Denmark! Art, thou hast taken thy final flight, I hope not!
Sugata Bose @U. R. Nandakumar : But the God of the Qur'an is not the God Thakur would have endorsed were he aware of the Qur'an's tenets through and through.
Sugata Bose @Tanmoy Lodh : But the cartoon relates to the pre-independence fixed election of Nehru as PM. Hence its validity.
Sugata Bose @Dipak Dey : এযাবৎ চলেছে 'বাংলামুক্ত চোরগড়া', 'দুয়ারে ডাকাত' |
Sugata Bose @Tanmoy Lodh : You are shifting goalpost. Cannot continue communication in this comment stream along such extraneous lines.
Sugata Bose @Sohan Lal : True. But the cartoon is equally true in its historical content and the reaction history inevitably brings forth in the fullness of time which is NOW.
Sugata Bose @Nibedita Banerjee : The very sensual culture of Bengal, not just politics. The perversion is in every sphere whose most degenerate manifestation is in politics. Sensuality, effeminacy and their illegitimate offspring violence of an inferior order have degenerated Bengal to the verge of civilisational extinction.
Sugata Bose @Musaraf Hossain : But your religion itself denounces other religions. Read the Qur'an and verify.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [Sange Tanmoy] : Is Dr. Pal seeking self-recognition and is a slave to name and fame as is typical of ordinary mortals merged in Maya? Why is he trying to corner glory when it was Amlan Kusum Ghosh who did the hard work of revealing the stunning admission of Justice Manoj Kumar Mukherjee that the honourable judge was 100% sure that Gumnami Baba was Netaji living incognito as monk?
Dr. Pal does not know that the discovery of the electron by J.J. Thomson in 1897 was not merely a mathematical proposition but an experimental derivation of cathode rays bending in an electric field and in a magnetic field akin to a stream of negatively charged particles which unknown particle then came to be dubbed the electron. It was very much a discovery of experimental physics and not a mathematical hypothesis or proposition. After the discovery in 1897 succeeding physicists like Ernest Rutherford, Neils Bohr, Werner Heisenberg and Shrodinger did model work and mathematical calculations thereof to further knowledge of this elementary subatomic particle. The electron microscope does give probability wave pictures of the electron, that is, the blur of its probable location at a given point of time. The electron exhibits dual nature of both particle and wave which is mathematically illustrated by De Broglie's equation. Imagining people other than himself to be innocent of physics is presumptuous and foolish at that, a vocation that suits someone who is himself ignorant of the deeper nuances of both physics and life's best elements in general. Greater humility would adorn the doctor better and render his otherwise perceptive analyses of the different facets of the Netaji disappearance mystery more appealing.
Bogus talk, unfounded in reason or factual element and full of fantastic assumptions, unproven and claimed without solid evidence backing them. No wonder Marxist historians, despite their prejudiced slant and deliberate denial of certain undeniable dastardly deeds of history, dominate the historical discourse in India for they base their arguments on rigorous logic otherwise. It is a pity that a nationalist like Dr. Pal should so give in to puerile persuasions and absurd claims, for he cites no credible evidence nor does he exhibit any sense of rational rigour as he goes about floating his vague propositions, as if true by superior decree to which all inferior mortals must bow down in holy obeisance.
Sugata Bose @Arnab Bhattacharya : And this moderation is quite absent in the Islamic scriptures, namely, the Qur'an, the Hadees and the Sira.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [Varin Sharma] : This Jaggi Vasudev is a fake guru which is why he needs to adorn himself with the title 'Sadhuguru', a title self-assumed and not bestowed upon him by any credible spiritual authority.which is usually the case. However, he uses deft talk and crafty evasiveness to drive home his 'spiritual mumbo-jumbo' into the minds of millions, people innocent of the ways and means of these pretentious preceptors and gullible enough to gobble up any gibberish presented to them.
Sugata Bose @Chakraborty Anupam : And of Islam. That too of faith, fertility and growth along dangerous lines as scripturally ordained and chronicled by history. Surely, you are not hinting at that and inviting the continuation of 1312 years of occupation of undivided Bharatvarsha ever since 712 CE, albeit now along coloured lines? If so, then saffron is better, both ideologically as well as characteristically in line with our civilisational genesis, aspiration and evolution.
Sugata Bose @Swapan Kr Jana : Like the TMC's painting West Bengal blue before repainting her black and blue, you know what it means.
Sugata Bose @Parag Kumar Mitra :
হাসির কথা বটে |
কোত্থেকে সব বিদূষক
দলে দলে জোটে |
Sugata Bose @Chandra Kumar Bose : There was no slamming done by Chandra Kumar Bose but a simple courteous placement of fact seen from a particular perspective while maintaining perfect civility and respectfulness, even affableness and fellow-feeling, which to paint it thus in aggressive terms may help secure additional viewership but does the nation disservice in lowering reporting standards and in effect eroding journalistic credibility. Captions to posts ought to be factually correct just as Kangana Ranaut is being 'corrected' here of perceived 'inaccuracy' of statement.
Sugata Bose @Rupa Ganguli : Then Modi is a downright failure, although he professes to be a follower of Swamiji. For Modi is ever trumpeting his self, 'Modi ki guarantee'.
Sugata Bose @Pkc Chowdhuree : 2047 et al are all gimmicks, nothing more. Do not be credulous.
Sugata Bose @Pkc Chowdhuree : Because ethically sound individuals do not indulge in providing gimmicks. Vision is one, tall talk another. A visionary does not engage in self-promotion so much. One only needs to ruminate on the lives of our redoubtable revolutionaries to draw this inference.
Sugata Bose @Ranita Indic : Alone shall I fight? Support me in the cause. Our conjoined effort alone can win us this civilisational war.
Sugata Bose @Krishnendu Majumdar : You mean we need hardline Hindutva as rescue operation?
Sugata Bose @Pkc Chowdhuree : Egiye Bangla has kept up the ban on Taslima Nasrin's novel 'Lajja'. It has shed its own lajja (shame) thus long ago. Now it is Peycchiye Bangla at number one in reverse order of the provincial procession.
Sugata Bose @Arunangshu Mandal : কে বলল? মানুষের বাচ্চা গরু হয় | মানুষের খোকন ছাগল হয় | মানুষের পো গাধা, উজবুক, আরও কত কি হয়, সে তো আর মুখে বলা যাবে না | অসাংবিধানিক বচন হয়ে যাবে | তাই এই সব সাংবিধানিক খেতাব দেওয়া হয়েছে নরনন্দনকে---হিন্দু, মুসলমান, খ্রীষ্টান, বৌদ্ধ ইত্যাদি | অবশ্য, মানুষের বাচ্চা মানুষ হয় না, এ কথা সাচ্চা |
Sugata Bose @Pkc Chowdhuree : "The majority are fools, men of common intellect," said Swami Vivekananda. Who decides what id gimmick? Well, I decide for myself. About yourself you know better. Hitler said that the Third Reich would last a thousand years. Well, it lasted only twelve years fortunately. Otherwise, it would have been an endless wait for verification. Intelligent people see into symptoms and are not duped by hollow promises when the present performance itself proves to the contrary all tallest of claims. As regards ethical people, certainly politicians who hobknob with patently corrupt business barons and fraud gurus, who sell juicy ideas to the gullible masses by gift of the gab, such ones have historically been proven to be of unsound ethical material as also those silent sheep who pretend ethical soundness but are cowardly in character and nothing more. No less offenders are those who support dastardly politicians from blind faith or self-interest without bothering to ruminate on the deeper consequences of such servile stupidity. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. Let politicians perform and then speak as Sri Ramakrishna had exhorted his nephew Hridayram to do, the latter being prone to loud declarations of intent before execution of intended work. Much more may be said but who writes abook in a comment stream after all where thd observation nah simply go abegging. Hence. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : Bhishma knew the enemy, yet deliberately sided with them to maintain his vow. So, he cannot be faulted for being gullible.
Sugata Bose @Satyanand Bhattacharjee : Do you believe in the transcendental reality of the Atman/Brahman?
Sugata Bose @Arunangshu Mandal : তাহলে উনি (মমতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) বিকল্পনাবিলাসিনী |
Sugata Bose @Raka Bhattacharyya : ভট্টাচার্যরা কি সকলেই এইরূপ? ব্রাহ্মনত্ববিবর্জিত?
Sugata Bose @Hridansh Surana : Understanding, alas, is rare these days when simple statements are not comprehended. The sad state of affairs is all there before us, yet misapprehension persists. Indeed we are on the way to becoming Vishvaguru when Hindus in their homeland are persecuted and indifferent Hindus are either silent witnesses or are active perpetrators and collaborators with Abrahamic adversaries in undermining Hindu interests. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Samarbijoy Chakraborty : No, digging a desert will only yield sand which is of no use in agriculture. One must instead find fertile soil where a dig by way of ploughing will reap a harvest in due time. Or, perhaps, a dig in a mine will yield precious gems. But taking a dig at self-deluded Hindus and conniving Communists will be an exercise in futility. In a short life does one have so much time to spray about? No, this is not a dig at callous Hindus or coarse Communists but is a timely reminder to valorous Hindus to awake in defence of the Dharma which is being continuously undermined by enemies of the motherland of whatever religious or political persuasion they may be. Vande Mataram! 🕉
Sugata Bose @YouTube [Bhavna Records and Cassettes---Krishna Bose] : This lady is not inspired by Netaji. Her voice betrays her lack of conviction in what she says. Evidently, Netaji's family is nowhere near his idealistic standards. Worldliness which affects the generality of humanity has not spared Netaji's family as well whose articulation on the hero therefore lacks power and that binding love which springs from the reserves of the sublimity that is patriotism of the highest order bordering on genuine spirituality free of material fetters. Vande Mataram! 🕉
Wednesday, 10 April 2024
IN RESPONSE TO CHANDRA KUMAR BOSE'S QUESTION AS TO WHAT MAY BE THE CONNECTION OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE RAM TEMPLE---DOUBTLESSLY A NOBLE ENDEAVOUR---WITH POLITICS
IN RESPONSE TO CHANDRA KUMAR BOSE'S QUESTION AS TO WHAT MAY BE THE CONNECTION OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE RAM TEMPLE---DOUBTLESSLY A NOBLE ENDEAVOUR---WITH POLITICS
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 consolidation of 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 greater degree, Rash Behari having established Japan's first Hindu Mahasabha centre and chaired it, although his politics was unmixed with religion.
The Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha, the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangha and the Jana Sangha which was later christened the Bharatiya Janata Party have their ideology rooted in religion, that is, the Sanatan Dharma (here mentioned 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, the Jana Sangha 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 the latter 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. 🕉
Written by Sugata Bose
Tuesday, 9 April 2024
HAIL KANGANA, THOU HAST SAID IT RIGHT!
HAIL KANGANA, THOU HAST SAID IT RIGHT!
Strange it is that Kangana Ranaut's true statement that Netaji was India's first Prime Minister, albeit of her Provisional Government, is being contradicted by kith and kin and by next of kin in the lineage of the INA! What ought to have been celebrated as the reassertion of a scant known truth which every admirer of Netaji ought to be proud of has been derided in print and visual medium by persons who have earlier been themselves vocal in the same vein as Ranaut.
Jawaharlal Nehru became the first Prime Minister of the British Dominion of India on 15 August, 1947. But much earlier on 21 October, 1943 Subhas Chandra Bose had become Prime Minister of the Provisional Government of Free India in Singapore which in effect meant that he was undivided India's Prime Minister, a fact legally recognised by nine nations of the world on the Axis side of the political spectrum then. As Prime Minister he led the war on the Anglo-Americans and on entering British Indian territory set up government in Manipur. He was also in political charge of the Andaman and the Nicobar Islands handed out to him as per prior pledge by the Japanese which he renamed Shaheed Dveep and Svaraaj Dveep.
Netaji had set up a most modern and efficient governing machinery with its own currency, bank, police, bureaucratic bodies, council of ministers and, of course, a 60,000 strong armed force of men, women and even a contingent of young adults called the Bal Sena. His government ruled over the freed territory of India for 90 days before altered conditions of war precipitated an unfortunate retreat.
Till the very end when Netaji mysteriously disappeared on 18 August, 1945, he held the portfolios of Prime Minister and Minister of War and Foreign Affairs in a most meaningful manner at the most perilous period of world history and certainly the most crucial couple of years in this nation's history which places his ministerial premiership on a peerless pedestal, a fact which can neither be denied nor downplayed as critics have unfortunately done. Kangana Ranaut thus stands absolved of all puerile charges levelled against her of distorting history by motivated individuals who now seemingly feel ashamed of admitting the grandest historical happening in our much molested freedom struggle when a few years earlier these very ones were feeding this very fact of Netaji being India's first Prime Minister into the national consciousness by their consistent avowal of it. Strange are the ways of self-interest which can even trade history for petty personal and political gains!
Meanwhile Netaji witnesses it all in dismay. Or, perhaps, I am much mistaken. Netaji must have long recognised the lack of moral fibre in some of his treasonous countrymen who had then let him down and have not evolved much to morality since in all these nine decades (1939--2024). But a cat has nine lives and supercats have ninety. And such a seminal soul as Netaji who is the master of all such animate beings, who is Pashupati, lives on forever in shining memory as not only first Prime Minister but the perennial governor of peoples' destiny.
Kangana, Manikarnika on celluloid, must have absorbed some of the lessons of history from her brilliant portrayal of the redoubtable Rani, and translated them to real life in bold affirmation of a forgotten fact, one that needs constant averment for it to be driven home into the hearts and minds of her countrymen so that they emerge from their stupor unto reclamation of their rightful history at the helm of which stands the luminous form of their leader Subhas Chandra Bose, their beloved Netaji. Hail Kangana, thou hast said it right! Jai Hind!
Written by Sugata Bose
HINDUTVA---THE DEFENCE OF THE HINDUS ... 1
HINDUTVA---THE DEFENCE OF THE HINDUS ... 1
The unity of India post-Partition thus far is standing on the shoulders of a large Hindu-majority population. The day this demographic balance significantly shifts, the country will see segmentation again. It is not the alleged divisive politics of BJP that will be responsible for it but that of forces opposed to it which are fuelling the growth of antinational activities to that effect.
The Islamic political ideology of the transformation of Dar-ul-Harb (House of War) to Dar-ul-lslam (House of Islam) which was the mainspring of Muslim inspiration to partition India in 1947 is still vibrant in Muslim minds. If politicians stoke this fire of fanaticism, it will again raise its ugly head and divide India in due course as Muslim population spurts. So, to blame Hindutva which is the defence of Hindus and Hindustan against this separatist ideology and movement as the cause of a prospective second Partition is puerile, nay, perverse, if not outright perfidious. To obfuscate the real cause of separatist trouble that lies in Islamic scriptural mandate itself and put the blame conveniently and consistently on Hindutva is a cunning self-serving manoeuvre that is common among critical Communists and Congressmen and in indoctrinated Islamists and proselytising Christians. To run down Hindutva by damning the RSS, the BJP and all allied orders that are standing up to combat Islamic, Christian and Communist conspiracy to destroy our Sanatan civilisation, culture and dharma is the secular fashion of the day. But such antinational forces must not be trusted. Their constant challenge to rising Hindutva must in turn be challenged rationally on the basis of evidence, Islamic scriptural commandment and separatist activity, Christian conversion data, Communist ideology and historical fact. The rising tide of Hindutva is our civilisational response to the dangers that lie ahead in the face of growing Muslim population with its baggage of theological dictates to which all Muslims subscribe. Add to it Christian evangelism and Communist subversion, and you have your picture perfect of perfidious patriotism that pretends to protect our so-called secular fabric which was engendered though in a bloody genocide of Hindus in 1947. That Hindus did retaliate is another matter. But it was initiated and sustained by Muslim mass slaughter of Hindus.
'Unity in diversity' is the cry of passionate patriots wearing the armband of secularism. It is secularism indeed as critics of Hindutva claim it to be their Matrimantra. But more on that later. It needs depth-discussion.
Written by Sugata Bose
Monday, 8 April 2024
NETAJI DISAPPEARANCE MYSTERY
NETAJI DISAPPEARANCE MYSTERY
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Who is the monk standing second from right beside Jawaharlal Nehru's death-bed?
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Saturday, 6 April 2024
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'.
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