STOP MUTILATING THE BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL FORM OF THE BODY IN THE NAME OF RELIGION

STOP MUTILATING THE BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL FORM OF THE BODY IN THE NAME OF RELIGION

Bodily mutilation caused in the name of religion is an archaic tribal practice that ought to have no place in modern society, especially in the case of people converting from one faith to a particular another. Freedom of conscience to convert ought to ensure the maintenance of sanctity of the physical form as well in such conversion. Leaving on the body a mutilating mark of conversion is, to my mind, detestable, a gross violation of the beauty of original form. Surgery when required medically is different but a cultural imposition by way of religious practice continuing to this day is outright regressive and ought to stop. In the case of babies who can neither choose nor protest, for them to undergo such mutilation is again, to my mind, a fundamental violation of human rights. To inflict pain on a baby days after birth or sometime thereafter is reprehensible, an execution over which it has no control. No society ought to have such a right over the new-born. If the baby is unsafe in its parents' hands owing to societal pressure, where lies the safety and security of the world at large?

P.S. If a mutilated/circumcised baby grows up to be an atheist or a convert to some other faith that does not circumcise or if he simply rejects such a practice by way of his reformed convictions, will he be restored in his genitals to its pristine form? What about that? 

How can someone be born into a religion? Religion is a system of belief or understanding and living thereby which comes into one's life when one has grown to maturity. Why then call one a Muslim baby or a Jewish baby and force circumcision on it? These are important cultural and societal questions that need cogitation and consequential amendment in action thereby. 

No one's form may be violated. Molestation of the baby is as heinous a crime as any other. This must be remembered. Human society will not grow out of its animality unless the sanctity of the human form is preserved and protected right from its inception. This would bring other contentious questions like abortion as well, I know, but that is another matter in the wider context into which I may not be drawn into right now as I feel abortion and euthanasia are matters extraneous to the current discussion. 

Written by Sugata Bose

COMMENTS GALORE ... 59

COMMENTS GALORE ... 59

Sugata Bose @Muhammad Al-Sa'ad : Do you not feel ashamed to make such a comment that bespeaks of a low manifestation of civility towards a fellow human being? Is your affiliation to faith a current stronger than values fundamental to civilised living that ought to merit greater respectfulness towards others, even adversaries in ideological affiliation?

Sugata Bose @Tapash Banerjee : Don't be foolish. This is utter crap. Your ignorance of history is astonishing. Hindus have suffered the worst genocide in history. Wait for the proofs to be furnished soon.

Sugata Bose @Tapash Banerjee : Were these luminaries like Bhimrao Ambedkar, Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda and Will Durant warming up the mart as well, an aspersion that you have so unthinkingly cast on me?

Sugata Bose @Debashish Chittaranjan Roy : And that counts for courage shown in the hour of distress in the zone of war, genocide, strife and tyranny. Right now Hindus are suffering a genocide in Bangladesh. Swamiji would have appreciated exhibition of greater courage from his followers in place of passive piety which is commonplace.

Sugata Bose @Tapan Bhattacharya : West Bengal is at its cultural nadir, at its civilisational worst under the current regime.

Sugata Bose @Debabrata Saha : Question mark missing in your last comment made in the interrogative form. This is the proof that despite education punctuation can go along its vagabond trail. Same with imperfect adherence to the tenets and practices of continence, physical, mental and spiritual.

Sugata Bose @Rupa Mukherjee : Learn Hindustani classical vocal music. Voice-control will come, also a sense of raag, taal and laya along with volume-control and a general sense of musical harmony. Right now there are too many imperfections that need to be addressed which is possible only by sustained 'taalim' /'shikshā' under an adept in raag sangeet. This is not a carping criticism but a sincere suggestion given by one who has had some experience in this line of musical training. Apologise for that last bit of what may perchance seem to be self-advertisement which I assure you it is not. You have a bold voice, good tonal quality but you evidently lack in voice-control and refinement in musical aesthetics. God bless you and hard work ahead! 🕉

Sugata Bose @Damu Das : Liberalism as such is good, in fact highly desirable, provided it is founded on truth and not on false assumptions and corrosive adjustments that eventually eat into the vitals of society and either render it sterile and fit for the wastebin of history or susceptible to alien invasion that runs contrary to heritage and culture and is intended to that very civilisation's downfall.

Sugata Bose @Fatema Rohoman : তারপর অশ্লীল বহুবিবাহ, হালালা, গনিমতের মাল ভক্ষণ ইত্যাদি---এগুলোও বন্ধ করতে হবে | কি বলেন, ফতেমা রহমান ?

Sugata Bose @Fatema Rohoman : In Islam you cannot question its basic tenets. That will be considered heresy, blasphemous unto sufferance of death here and burning eternally in hellfire hereafter.

Sugata Bose @Fatema Rohoman : Correct. In Islam devotion to the 'Almighty' is founded on fear. This fear of hell is the basis of submission to the 'Divine'.

Sugata Bose @Fatema Rohoman : Follow Mustafa Kemal Pasha's lead and reform Bangladesh. Then Hinduise Bangladesh in every phase. Light will stream in to help your effort and redeem Bangladesh as integral to ancient Bharatvarsha. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Fatema Rohoman : The polarisation is to be traced to its origin in Islamic theology as documented in the Qur'an. Herein lies the foundational divisiveness, the fundamental polarising impulse.

Sugata Bose @Fatems Rohoman : Your faint plea will not reach deaf ears in West Bengal.

Sugata Bose @Raghab Saha : It is there for you to see. But one must have discerning eyes to do so which I am not sure everybody has. Hence you see, your predicament.

Sugata Bose @Debabrata Saha: Need I? What binds me to your arbitrary demand when you lack in fundamental understanding as to the import of a post? You may choose to play up tantrums with your childish demands which I am under no compulsion to comply with, especially when parleying with a puerile person is to be deemed an exercise in futility. Had you any understanding of the import of the post in line with the exhortations which Swamiji has made, you would have been in a position to appreciate the validity of my assertion which is but a reflection of what Swamiji has spoken in various ways on the subject as opposed to the current trends in western wokism. If you are sincere and not stubborn in trenchant opposition to my line of thinking, you will come to reason quickly and see sense in what I have duly articulated. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Sanjeev Shrivastava : You have unbelievable originality. You somehow come up with your unique brand of lateral thinking and articulation thereof. Hats off to you!

Sugata Bose @Bhattacharya Kalyan : Maintenance of absolute chastity in thought, word and deed lifelong which is the sine qua non of the spiritual journey. Read Swami Vivekananda and the relevant conception will be clear.

Sugata Bose @Abhishek Ganguly : He should be.  Otherwise we should go and protect him. This may not be practically possible for us to conduct but its implication is that we should be as courageous in our respective spheres instead of being indulgent in casual commenting that is inconsequential in the larger scheme of effecting change. A fair deal of seriousness ought to replace the said levity that is so much in common currency.

Sugata Bose @Debabrata Saha: Do not be presumptuous in averring about my svadharma. Had you a semblance of understanding of Swamiji's exhortations regarding manliness, you would have not ventured into making such puerile observations. As it stands it was you who asked for an instance in unmanliness of sorts from me in regard to the content of the post which brought Sarvariyananda into context. Else, his name would not have arisen. There is no question of dishonouring any as such, only highlighting what Swamiji wanted ardently in regard to the manifestation of manliness in his followers who were to be legion among his countrymen. I will append a post by way of a further comment which your good sense should be able to decipher. This time, though, it will be Swamiji's vitriol against the Tagores, in especial Rabindranath by implication. Let's see how you respond. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Debabrata Saha : Keep reading my posts on manhood in line with Swamiji's thinking and awaken the same in your good self and others. That is the call of the hour instead of defending effeminacy by any means garbed as titular devotion to monks of eminence who have thrown overboard Swamiji's fundamental principles.

Sugata Bose @Amitabha Dutta Majumdar : I understand. But we should be discerning as well. Otherwise, culture will precipitate to its nadir that will not be so unwholesome after all.

Sugata Bose @Utpal Aich : It is despicable on part of the West Bengal government to lay low Swamiji thus at the base of the tableau on display in the Republic Day Parade, a sign of the degeneracy of the times as apparent in West Bengal in especial.

Sugata Bose @Debabrata Saha : 'Little Vivekananda' epithet accorded him by little men. You remain incorrigible and intransigent in your stance. Godspeed unto you!

Sugata Bose@Анандамой Мухопадхяй : I hope you are not mistaking me to be Netaji's grandnephew, historian Prof. Sugata Bose. If not, I am happy with your appreciation. But if so, then I do not deserve it.

Sugata Bose @Sanjeev Shrivastava : You have a keen intellect, perceptive understanding of sociopolitical situations, a delightful sense of humour, great capacity for lateral thinking, originality extraordinaire, a saucy way of penning things and above all an insightful penetrative vision that sees into the heart of things. Indeed, you are quite a phenomenon, one that seems to be unique in articulation of responsive ideas spontaneously and spanning over the widest range of subjects, a respondent nonpareil in my online experience. All good wishes to your health, happiness and sustained highlighting of events in your own inimitable way.

Sugata Bose @Sumit Karmakar Pro: No, there are many who are in favour of mourning this day as Partition Day or remembering this day as Dominion Day instead of celebrating it as Independence Day. And, I guess, they have their point and perspective too. But I feel happy on this day that despite it all it was on this day that our modern journey as a free nation had begun with its first infant steps eventhough there was a bloodbath going on as Mother India was being mutilated into three. After all, at the end of it, it is bliss that is our real nature and not pain or sorrow, and in celebrating this day while respectfully remembering the martyrs to the motherland who were legion after the beastly butchering that was initiated by the 'All India Muslim League' at Jinnah's behest, we will be paying due homage to them in blissful terms transcending the surface cover of deep sorrow. So, let us rejoice in our mourning on this momentous day of our unfolding national life and let us not allow cynicism or sarcasm to sully this grand moment. Vande Mataram! 🕉

Sugata Bose @Анандамой Мухопадхяй : But India since 26 January, 1950 is a sovereign republic and, hence, not a British dominion despite being on special grounds a Commonwealth member.

Sugata Bose @Swami Bhavatmananda : No, Maharaj. The Vedic statement you have quoted applies to dharma traditions that are founded in the Vedas or have Brahmic bearings, not to political ideologies which have no roots in the essential philosophy of the Vedas but which reject the Vedas by theological implication as false. Study the Islamic trilogy of the Qur'an, the Hadees and the Sira and you will come to appreciate what I have in the post averred. If political ideologies masquerading as religion are thus to be granted the status of dharma, then even fascism, national socialism and communism ought to be regarded as paths to the Divine which they eminently are not. More on this subject in my forthcoming posts but they will come in due course as to me writing is an inspired, spontaneous flow and not an executed endeavour of an arduous kind. Pranam. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Krishnan Hariharan : Study Swamiji. Let us start a Vivekananda Movement. That is the only way to resurrecting our ravaged civilisation.

Sugata Bose @Shatorupa Shatorupa Why call her 'nijer meye' despite her self-entitlement to that effect? It is an insult to Mother Bengal to call her so. Greater self-respect on our part would deem the ascription of epithets other than this highly endearing one on this most undeserving member by default in our otherwise highly civilised society, at least in its brighter aspects historically and by heritage.

Sugata Bose @Sukanta Panday : First yourself exhibit the courage to name the Chief Minister by name, Sri Mamata Bandapadhyay. Then and then alone this nation will rise. If ordinary citizens lack the courage of conviction to name the person while shaming him/her, why should rogues not rule the roost, tell me?

Sugata Bose @Siddhartha Biswas : Name the lady. Why can you not muster courage of conviction to name the Chief Minister Smt. Mamata Bandapadhyay when to your mind she is the root of all of West Bengal's maladies?

Sugata Bose @Soumyadipta Sarkar : That is because the invisible one does not bear any mark of Bengaliness any more, that is, assuming she ever had any.

Sugata Bose @Aritra Rakshit : Which party? Which chief? Whose supporters? Why can't you muster courage of conviction to name them as All India Teinamool Congress, Smt. Mamata Bandapadhyay and Trinamool Congress supporters? Great civilisational changes cannot come about unless millions of intrepid citizens/citizenesses come to the fore and raise their voices, articulate their grievances based on felt grief, suffered pain and general affliction endured by the day, by the hour. So, shed shyness which is cowardice camouflaged and boldly proclaim what lies in your heart, albeit in a language civilised as not to cause undue offence even as you register your case in open forum, expressing your grievances.

Sugata Bose @Suresh Jha : By India here Swamiji meant the Sanatan Dharma. This our modern commentators on Swamiji must remember. The same applies to the text of the 'Svadesh Mantra'. And throughout his lectures from Colombo to Almora we hear the same refrain, that of equating India with Hinduism and Indian civilisation with Hindu civilisation. And it needs must be so, for the warp and woof of this civilisational fabric that India represents is that of Hinduism that runs through the nerves of Indians as their very life-current. Hinduism replaced by Islam and Christianity is India dead and gone, exited through the cosmic drain unto annihilation, unto extinction, unto utter oblivion. 🕉

Sugata Bose @Golam Sabir : If I become PM, I'll have to appoint you my OFFENCE MINISTER.

Sugata Bose @Medha Basu : May Thakur-Ma-Swamiji bless you, Medha, for your multifarious manifestation of artistic and academic attributes! Grand venture thus far and laurels galore ahead.

Sugata Bose @Suman Karan : If so, then read him and Swamiji daily. This will help in building the individual and the nation.

Sugata Bose @Swapan Kumar Ghosh: I feel that the moment a person acquires a modicum of intellectual understanding, he/she becomes a leftist. This is because the left movement is seen as the movement for socioeconomic justice. It has its revolutionary roots in history with special reference to the French Revolution, the Russian and the Chinese Revolutions and the Vietnamese Revolution that followed. That all these revolutions in due course turned brutally violent does not take away from them their sheen in rising up against imperial and capitalistic exploitation which Marxist theory appended to it beautifully allows in these rising intellectuals a mental metamorphosis that lasts for a lifetime. Leftism, thus, naturally recruits its adherents from generation to generation who in turn occupy the best seats in academia on account of their intellectual talent and, in so doing, fashion the intellectual discourse in universities across the free world. This, to my mind, is the reason why academia is so left-oriented quite naturally rather than being so in a planned and orchestrated manner. Of course, once in power, many of these leftists turn toxic in their teachings and tutor students new-age philosophy which, again, opposes classical religious teachings owing to historical experiences suffered, especially in the West. Christianity had tyrannised the West so badly for so long that anti-Christian sentiments pervade Europe to this day, replacing the Christian doctrines with socialist ones learnt from the likes of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky and a whole host of European philosophers and scientists with Darwin and Freud leading the charge. Colonialism and capitalism emanating from Europe have so ravaged the world for centuries that the modern progressive European and, by default, the American now as well, feel ashamed of their past and wish to make amends by building up a new world on the basis of multiculturalism and welfare liberalism which gathers recruits from among the brightest youths like magnet attracting iron filings. Thus is academia proliferating with left-liberal thinking and professor-pupil association, although you may laugh at the thought of leftists being liberal as well, having witnessed the track record of leftist politics in the 20th century. But leftism does not necessarily mean Marxist communism but covers a universe of socialist shades that are quite consonant with democracy.

বাহবা বাংলাদেশ ... ১

বাহবা বাংলাদেশ ... ১

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সোজাসুজি কথা বলেন কমজন | সবাই ঘুরিয়ে ঘুরিয়ে বক্তব্য পেষ করেন যাতে নিজেকে বেশ সুরক্ষিত রাখা যায় | 

ইসলাম যে মনুষ্যসমাজকে দুই ভাগে বিভক্ত করেছে ও কাফিরদের জন্য দোজখের/জাঁহানন্মের (নরকের) বন্দোবস্ত করেছে সে কথা তো প্রায় সকলেই জানেন | কিন্তু ইসলামের চোখে সবচেয়ে বড় অপরাধি কে তা জানেন কি ? উত্তর হল, মুশরিক, অর্থাৎ, আল্লাহ্ ব্যতীত আর কোন দেবতাকে ও বহু দেবতাকে যে পূজো করে, সে | মুশরিকের অপরাধের একমাত্র ক্ষমা ইসলাম কবুল | নচেৎ মৃত্যু ও তারপর অনন্ত নরকভোগ | হিন্দু হল সেই মুশরিক | তাই বাংলাদেশে হিন্দুদের ওপর যে অত্যাচার চলছে তা অপ্রত্যাশিত নয় | তার সমর্থন ইসলামের পবিত্র ধর্মগ্রন্থেই আছে | গনিমতের মাল তো মুসলমানেরই প্রাপ্য | এ তো আল্লাহনির্দিষ্ট বিধান | হাজার বছর ধরে এই তো চলে আসছে | হিন্দু নারীর বলাৎকার, দাস বাজারে বিক্রয়, হিন্দুর সম্পত্তি হরণ, হিন্দু গণহত্যা, হিন্দুকে বলপূর্বক ইসলামে দাখিল, অর্থাৎ, ধর্মান্তরণ | এ তো নতুন নয় | এ তো সহস্রবর্ষব্যাপী ইসলামীয় প্রকল্প, যেনতেনপ্রকারেণ দার-উল-হার্বকে দার-উল-ইসলামে পরিবর্তন করার প্রয়াস |

রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

THE INDIAN CLOWN IN THE AMERICAN CIRCUS

THE INDIAN CLOWN IN THE AMERICAN CIRCUS

Chaste pronunciation of English is becoming increasingly a thing of the past. Having to hear 'said' as 'sad', 'Olympic' as 'Olumpic/Olampic', 'best' as 'bast', 'against' as 'aganst' (as in 'bad'), 'sovereignty' as 'sovreignity', 'publicly' as 'publically' and 'corruption' as 'curruption', to cite but a few instances, is hard, especially when it comes from newsreaders and moderators of television news channels and sports channels. Lewd mannerism is another bother. 

A Vedanta preacher who is now located in USA changes over from his long-associated Indian accent to a horrendous version of American accent within months, managing only to quickly alter utterance of 'pāst' as 'past', 'lāst' as 'last', 'fāst' as 'fast', 'bāth' as 'bath', 'pāth' as 'path' (as in 'bad', 'dad', 'glad'). Such shallowness of alien absorption, such superficiality in impefect imitation suits the Indian of the day like none other. 

Earlier it was 'bathroom'. It became 'loo' in the intermediary phase. Now it is 'washroom'. 'Anyway' had suddenly for a decade become 'anyways', then switched back to its own nest as 'anyway'. 'Global player', 'the India story' etc.---all these and so much more of everyday import from the West is irritating as they are instances in poor imitation of whatever pedestrian comes into being in the West. 'Guy' instead of 'person', 'dude' instead of whatever, are of constant cancellation of classical words that was the embellishment of the English language. This base imitation becomes a shallow nation that has lost its roots and was warned against by Swami Vivekananda in what has come to bear the title 'Svadesh Mantra'. But who cares about him? Who would listen to him when there is big American 'bro' (for 'brother') to better heed to? We have to live our 'dreams' after all---using 'dream' typically in the American usage of it as in 'the American dream'. 

How much more need be stated to drive home the point that we as a nation have lost our mooring, casting anchor in alien culture of crass commonality, and need to relocate ourselves in a semblance of classical continuity. Language, it may be argued, is like a meandering river and needs must change with the tide of times, but it may equally be posited that parody is not poetry nor is imitation in course-correction meandering of the linguistic river. 

'Pitaji', 'mataji' have universally in Northern India---at least to all visible intent on television---become 'Mummy', 'Papa' as parents close in cosily to crass commercial Hindi movie culture to set up a new tradition of indigenous cultural amnesia and alien cultural absorption of a despicable kind. 

Loudness of speech, lack of musical harmony in dialogue, discourse, discussion  and debate on open platform, intellectual shallowness, hype and hoopla over trifles, stupidity of billionaires that blazons as advertised time-torture, nocturnal news-nuisance that are video representations of raucous rogues hooting in the open market of licentious life that comes in the wake of a newly-found footing in the world of capital, Parliament becoming a place of roguish disruption of proceedings where the nation's life-breath is being held 'in captive bonds'---all these are national characteristics today that daily put to shame our ancestors of seminal attainments and brightest hopes which they reposed in their would-be descendants. 

We have failed ourselves in attempting to become what we may never be---the western variation of the Indian breed, what Macaulay had so successfully implanted in the heart of India to our eternal shame. In our imperfect imitation of the West lies the perfected success of Macaulay's ploy and our perfected failure to be perfect in anything. It is time to return to national roots and rediscover ourselves.

Written by Sugata Bose

MESSAGES GALORE ... 80

MESSAGES GALORE ... 80

1. শুধু বেনেবুদ্ধি দিয়ে দেশগঠন হয় না, পদকলাভও হয় না | সরকারের চরিত্র চাই, ব্যবসায়ীর অর্থপ্রেমের ঊর্ধ্বে চাই দেশপ্রেম আর সর্বসাধারণের চাই বিজ্ঞানমনস্কতা |

2. Isn't it a shame that Hindu civilisation is being brought down in Bangladesh, Pakistan and in innumerable pockets in India?

3. Who destroyed Zoroastrianism in Persia?

4. What sort of imitation English is this: 'monster throw', 'global player', 'the India story', 'loo', 'washroom', 'anyways'?

5. A political ideology masquerading as religion has no place in the world.

6. We see Neeta Ambani in the same ad as our Olympic stars. In which sport is she participating or has won laurels for India?

7. বাণিজ্য মন্দ নয় | তাই বলে এত নীচ বিজ্ঞাপনের বাণিজ্য যা অসভ্যতার সমতুল? কী জঘন্য সংস্কৃতি আমরা televisionএর পর্দায় প্রদর্শন করছি !

8. ভারত প্রাণময় কোষে লাফালাফি করছে আর ওদিকে উন্নত দেশগুলো বিজ্ঞানময় কোষে অবস্থান করে দ্রুত এগিয়ে যাচ্ছে |

9. India's national concentration is nowhere near China's. We lie at the low end of international sporting excellence.

10. The last gentleman Chief Minister passes away. Buddhadev Bhattacharya remains in the memory of every Bengali 'bhadralok'.

11. With mediocrity abounding all around it is difficult to be proud about the national scene. We are not quite a nation yet as we struggle to evolve beyond self-interest to the collective good. Excellence in collective terms is a far cry as yet as individual talent comes through sporadically and often dies in bud because of organisational apathy, neglect and plain politicking.

12. As Muslim population in India increases, it will go the way of Kashmir, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. West Bengal is next in line.

13. A bronze at last. Hockey hopefuls did not disappoint. Heart full of happy vibes. Now gun for gold, javelin boy!

14. What moments of life remain, string them into a garland of love and put it around my neck.

15. Neeraj Chopra wins silver but disappoints with five foul throws. It is deemed mandatory for media not to raise hype over stars.

16. বিদ্যাশক্তির প্রাচুর্য ব্যতীত কোন জাতি বড় হতে পারে না |

17. If our PM had been China's Premier, all his working hours would have been spent in tweeting congratulatory messages for medalists.

18. শ্রীযুক্ত বুদ্ধদেব ভট্টাচার্যের জীবনাবসানের সাথে সাথে ভদ্র মন্ত্রীত্বের পালা শেষ হল | এখন পরিদৃশ্যমান তার বিপরীত পালা |

19. If theology be wicked, it creates demons even out of good men. In the modern world it is imperative to do away with such cults.

20. It is time to modernise Indian thinking without losing our Vedantic foothold.

21. একজন প্রকৃত ভদ্রলোক | প্রয়াত মুখ্যমন্ত্রী শ্রী বুদ্ধদেব ভট্টাচার্য |

22. Britain now understanding what India underwent through British 'divide and rule' policy. Immigrant Muslims running amock in UK.

23. Britain reeling under immigrant unrest. The far right clash with immigrant Muslims as riot spreads through UK cities. Britain burns.

24. Europe progressively under Islamic siege.

25. India (1silver, 4 bronze) at 64th position still awakens hope in hopefools of the elusive gold. #ParisOlympics2024

26. In her bid to rule the world Britain sowed seeds of dissension everywhere. Now in her own backyard she is reaping the harvest of toxic seeds sown. Karma recoils for sure.

27. Brahman is the untarnished truth. It does not undergo timely corrosion. Brahman is the unvarnished truth as well.

28. রুচিহীনতা আজ রাষ্ট্রীয় পরিচয় | বিশ্বগুরু কি এই শিক্ষা দেবেন জগদ্ব্যাপী শিষ্যদের ?

29. গদ্যময় মানুষের কাছে বিত্তই কাব্য, অর্থই সংগীত |

30. 

If in death we meet,

I'll sing songs to you.

For in life it seems

There are chains all around.

31. 

Love has been lost in early dawn.

Now in the evenshine of life

Lingering memories freshly sprout

Seeds of early morn.

32. জীবন মোটা দানায় চলে | সংগীত তো সূক্ষ্ম বীজ, ফোটার আগেই নির্বাপিত |

33. Lovely composition. Beautiful. Song of the soul in sweetest terms. The elixir of life. Life's last resort, refuge, haven, heaven of surpassing sublimity.

34. চূড়ান্ত ভদ্রলোকের পরেই চূড়ান্ত অভদ্র | বাংলার রাজনৈতিক পালাবদল যদি এই রকম নিম্নগামী হতে থাকে তো বৃথা রবীন্দ্রনাথ |

35. Aman Sehrawat closes proceedings with a bronze.

36. Have Indian Hindus forgotten Bangladeshi Hindus who are being hounded by Muslims there?

37. Conversion to Islam and Christianity is a blot on our Sanatan civilisation. It must stop. Islam and Christianity cannot be given a free rein in subverting our culture.

38. What Bangladeshi Muslims are doing to the Hindus is exactly as they are scripturally enjoined to do. How can they violate faith?

39. 

I am no more than He,

No less than He.

I am Me,

I am Me.

40. Who was Sohrawardy's second-in-command in the Hindu genocide of 16 August, 1946 that is infamous as The Great Calcutta Killing?

41. What is happening in Bangladesh is what has been the history of Islam right since its inception 1400 years ago. No surprises.

42. India in 69th position at the #ParisOlympics2024. A remarkable performance from a nation as given to crass commercial culture.

43. Bangladesh will progressively become like Pakistan and then fail like it. The price of Partition they will have to pay. Karma recoils.

44. Hindu blood will be avenged. Right now Hindus are paying the price of historical cowardice in confronting a rogue religion.

45. "Convert, go into exile or die." This is the choice of Hindus in Bangladesh as in other Islamic totalitarian states.

46. Why will political parties cater to legitimate Hindu interests when a vast number of Hindus themselves are either apathetic to it or positively anti-Hindu in their stated stance and pursued objectives?

47. Bangladesh was liberated by the Indian Army. Thereafter it has been her height of ingratitude to have persecuted the Hindus.

48. Can Islam exist in peace with other faiths and with the faithless when it is in the majority?

49. If scripture sanctions possession by force of women and wealth of other faiths, is it small wonder what is happening now in Bangladesh?

50. Thanks a lot for this one. A clear articulation of truth, truth that is unfolding everywhere before our very eyes, that is, before those that have eyes to see. Fact it is that we are everywhere suffering crucifixion ('crucifiction').

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51. সোজাসুজি কথা বলেন কমজন | সবাই ঘুরিয়ে ঘুরিয়ে বক্তব্য পেষ করেন যাতে নিজেকে বেশ সুরক্ষিত রাখা যায় | ইসলাম যে মনুষ্য সমাজকে দুই ভাগে বিভক্ত করেছে ও কাফিরদের জন্য দোজখের/জাঁহানন্মের (নরকের) বন্দোবস্ত করেছে সে কথা তো প্রায় সকলেই জানেন | কিন্তু ইসলামের চোখে সবচেয়ে বড় অপরাধি কে তা জানেন কি ? উত্তর হল, মুশরিক, অর্থাৎ, আল্লাহ্ ব্যতীত আর কোন দেবতাকে ও বহু দেবতাকে যে পূজো করে, সে | মুশরিকের অপরাধের একমাত্র ক্ষমা ইসলাম কবুল | নচেৎ, মৃত্যু ও তারপর অনন্ত নরকভোগ | হিন্দু হল সেই মুশরিক |

52. হিন্দু, জাগো ! স্বামীজী কি বলেছিলেন ? "Arise! Awake! And stop not till the goal is reached."

53. যে সব হিন্দুবিরোধী হিন্দুরা বাংলাদেশে হিন্দু গণহত্যার ওপর পর্দা ফেলতে চাইছেন ও প্রতিবাদীদের মুখ বন্ধ করতে চাইছেন তাঁদের ওপার বাংলায় গিয়ে কিছুকাল বাস করে আসার অনুরোধ রইল |

54. যত সব কাপুরুষের দল ! নির্যাতিত, নির্যার্তিতা স্বধর্মাচারীর প্রতি সহানুভূতি নেই, আবার আগ বাড়িয়ে জ্ঞান দিতে আসে যে হিন্দু সহস্র বছরে যখন নিঃশেষিত হয়নি, তখন তার সুরক্ষা ওমনিই হবে, চিন্তার কোন কারণ নেই | যত সব বকধার্মিকের দল !

55. যে শিক্ষায় মানুষকে স্বধর্মাচারীর প্রতি সহানুভূতিসম্পন্ন করে না, তা কি শিক্ষা ? কী ভয়ঙ্কর অসংবেদনশীলতা !

56. অবতারেরও ইতিহাসসচেতন হওয়া প্রয়োজন | তাই স্বামীজী প্রণম্য আমার |

57. তেজ ভিন্ন কি হিন্দু রক্ষা পাবে ? তাই স্বামীজী ব্রহ্মচর্যের ওপর এত জোড় দিয়েছিলেন | পবিত্রতা ও সাহসিকতা---এই দুই সহকারে স্বধর্ম রক্ষার আহ্বান জানাই |

58. Swamiji said that if a single Hindu anywhere in the world is hurt, it should evoke sympathetic vibrations in all Hindus. Today in Bangladesh Hindus are being hounded. Where's the sympathy in Indian Hindus, especially in those in nearest West Bengal, that would fulfil Swamiji's expectation?

59. শৌর্য, বীর্য, সাহস, পৌরুষ চাই | মেয়েলী পুরুষের বেদান্তপ্রচারে কাজ হবে না | স্বামীজীর ন্যায় সিংহবিক্রম চাই | হে প্রচারক, পুরুষ সিংহ হও | নইলে বৃথা বেদান্ত বক্তব্য | সব পণ্ড হবে |

60. ব্রহ্মচর্য পালন করেও পুরুষের পৌরুষ না জাগলে বৃথা ব্রহ্মচর্য, অর্থাৎ, ব্রহ্মচর্যের অপলাপ হচ্ছে বলে বুঝতে হবে |

61. India 71st in Vishvaguru status at #ParisOlympics2024.

62. What is happening now in Bangladesh is what had happened prior to Partition that forced it and what had happened to Hindus in 1971.

63. কী অরাজকতা পশ্চিমবঙ্গে !

64. Earlier, I had copy-pasted this post from Suvadeep Sen's profile as saved in my 'Saved' File, having inadvertently overlooked the option of sharing it as I was evidently in a hurry to respond to a carping comment made by an observer in a post of mine related to the Hindu genocide currently in occurrence in Bangladesh. I have thankfully rectified my mistake and extend my heartfelt thankfulness and gratitude to Suvadeep for having taken this misadventure of mine in a gracious and sporting manner. Of course, I had earlier duly acknowledged the authorship of the post to its legitimate author, Suvadeep Sen. Nonetheless, the matter has now been brought to its harmonic rightful end as I have duly shared the post as in the first place it ought to have been. Thanks, Suvadeep.

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65. Farcical 'Closing Ceremony' going on at #ParisOlympics2024, quite out of character with the rigour of sporting discipline exhibited in the past few days. A confused mass of 'cultural' extravaganza, technology put to chaotic use.

66. A sham of a song, prose of a poem of a song of Frank Sinatra going on at the Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony. Disappointed to witness the abysmal lows of popular Western culture after such exhilarating sporting performances over the past few days. The poverty of music and culture in evidence was appalling. #ParisOlympics2024

67. West Bengal is strangely silent on the Hindu genocide in Bangladesh. Whither sympathy, empathy for distressed Hindus among the Bengali intelligentsia, if of course that term may anymore be ascribed to sycophantic apologists for the ruling dispensation and the offending community that periodically vandalises Hindu property, molests Hindu women and considers the enforced exodus of Hindus from their homeland in Bangladesh their rightful scripturally-ordained obligation to fulfil?

68. পশ্চিমবঙ্গের বুদ্ধুজীবিরা যে বাংলাদেশে হিন্দু গণহত্যার বিষয়ে নির্বাক, নিশ্চুপ, এতে আর আশ্চর্য কি ? বুদ্ধুজীবি তো এমনই হয় |

69. Swamiji in vain had exhorted his followers to be manly. In effect some of his most famous followers are the epitome of effeminacy.

70. Humility and devotion to Guru are essentials for education. Bear these as character attributes and success is yours if hard work, obedience to Guru and discipline are attendant features.

71. পুরুষ কতদূর মেয়েলি হলে পৌরুষ কাকে বলে বোঝে না !

72. এই মেয়েলি পুরুষগুলোকে স্বামীজী পৌরুষ বলতে কি বুঝিয়েছিলেন তা আর কেমন করে বোঝাবো ? স্বামীজীর তেজোঃদীপ্ত বাণী বুঝতে গেলে যে স্বাভাবিক পৌরুষ থাকা চরিত্রে প্রয়োজন তা স্তাবক ভক্তকুলে বিরল | অতএব, প্রচেষ্টা ব্যর্থকামই হবে | নিতান্তই ক্লীব তারা যারা স্বামীজীর বীরবাণী বোঝে না, বুঝতে চায় না | যৌবনে ব্রহ্মচর্য করলে এই দুর্দশা হত না এদের |

73. Whatever the West initiates, we must imitate. Is this culture?

74. The tyranny of intolerance by a particular faith is being tolerated by Facebook but not those posts which are critical of it. Then community guidelines are coming into play.

75. Swamiji has been forgotten by the Hindus. Thus this deplorable state of theirs. Mere titular devotion is not enough.

76. একটি হিন্দু অত্যাচারিত হলে সমগ্র হিন্দু জাতি সে ব্যথা অনুভব করবে, নিগ্রহের প্রতিকার করবে |এই ছিল স্বামীজীর আশা, এই আদেশ |

77. X is better than Y. Here you have to answer why. There you can Xpress.

78. The most disgraceful apathy to persecuted Hindus in Bangladesh is in evidence among the silent civil society of West Bengal.

79. Lady doctor at R.G.Kar molested, murdered. Culprits not apprehended yet. West Bengal fast precipitating into absolute lawlessness.

80. Every Hindu child must be made to read Swamiji's life n teachings. Then alone this race will rise. Mothers, prepare your children.

81. If death be natural, let us die game for a great cause. And what cause can be greater than defence of the Dharma?

82. I am convinced that if all Hindus study Vivekananda thoroughly, the course of this nation shall turn upswing. 🕉

83. We must defend our vast Hindu community spread across the world. We need replenishment of our population to maintain our strength.

84. We will never allow this country to be under Islamic domination. If necessary several Vivekanandas will spring forth from among us to prevent it and help flourish the Sanatan Dharma.

85. Again and again I shall be born to revive the Hindus. This should be our pledge. Death is child's play for a Sanatani.

86. If a faith tries to obliterate the Hindus, that faith will be obliterated. Extinction lies in wait for it.

87. Hindus, wake up! Before long you will be a minority in your own land. Demography is fast changing. A takeover plan is on. Beware!

88. Why is it that in Islamic countries minority population keeps declining whereas in non-Muslim ones Muslim population keeps rising?

89. What's the agenda? The takeover of Hindu India? Keep trying. We'll thwart your attempts and keep it Hindu.

90. Before reading the Qur'an do not jump to the conclusion that all religions lead to God even if Sri Ramakrishna says so.

91. I find it disgusting that we Hindus while discussing the danger of the Islamisation of India suffer so much from levity.

92. আমরা হিন্দুরা আজ বড় হালকা জাতি | এটি পাশ্চাত্য শিক্ষার বদহজমের ফল | গাম্ভীর্য, গভীরতা, মননশীলতা, শ্রদ্ধার বড় অভাব |

93. Hindu civilisation was the cradle of world civilisation in many a sense. Islamic invasion subverted it and set it in decline.

94. It is shocking to discover that many of our adolescents beyond the Bengali pale have not heard of Swami Vivekananda.

95. Introduce Swami Vivekananda's life and teachings in the school syllabi across the length and breadth of the country and you will witness a wonderful change that will come in our polity within the span of a generation. Do not go to monks to learn about Vivekananda. The message will get diluted. Go direct to Vivekananda as manifest in his Complete Works. He will guide you, young ones, into the realm of light and learning, character and control of your inner reserves till you are a master of your own self. Accept Swamiji as your ideal and in turn grow into ideal individuals for others coming after you to emulate. Thus shall a nation, now fractured, be forged as Swamiji had envisaged.

96. Those who are fighting for the preservation of the Hindus ought to themselves thoroughly study Swami Vivekananda. Else, such clamouring is a sham of a show only.

97. Creating a fan-following is one and being a leader another. A leader must be luminous.

98. We must strike gold in every movement of life, in every endeavour, in every enterprise and activity. Perfection is the watchword.

99. How even in the 21st century religious superstition simply flourishes! Real rationality as yet is a far cry.

100. If a man lacks in manliness and deems effeminacy proper, he has a right to it. But so do I have a right to my contrary observations.

THE RISING STAR OF GOLDEN DREAMS

THE RISING STAR OF GOLDEN DREAMS 

My heart breaks even as my soul exults to see rising star Lakshya Sen come so close to beating defending Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen. Postmatch the champion predicted Lakshya Sen as a leading contender for gold in the Atlanta Olympics next. Glory unto Lakshya even in defeat, for what a feat it was to lead 20-17 in the first game and then 7-0 in the second before losing both to superior experience in the Dane!

Photo Credit: AP

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WHAT IS NEEDED AND WHAT IS NOT NEEDED

WHAT IS NEEDED AND WHAT IS NOT NEEDED

A sense of national self-respect arising out of honouring each other is the prerequisite for national excellence in the international arena. Respecting fellow citizens creates social solidarity which is the foundational fabric of excellence in any endeavour, the latter requiring encouragement, support, sympathy and solace in its hard travail to reach the summit. Harmony which is the essence of beauty must pervade national life before summit-success be achieved significantly and in ample measure. General civility as opposed to ruckus raised at every bend and turn, roughness in interpersonal dealings, needless strife on every count, low selfishness, puerile self-advertisement counting for nothing, a general sense of levity, irrationality in interaction, futile frothiness in group behaviour, foul-mouthing others at the drop of a hat, lack of intellectual curiosity, a curious mixture of indolence and insolence coupled with dishonest dreams that must dash to bits in the teeth of superior competition, insincere chanting of scriptural verses posing as pundits, overall, a dishonesty in deed, lack of the due labour of love that manifests as excellence, all these must be rooted out before we may even aspire for higher laurels, much less achieve them. #ParisOlympics2024

Written by Sugata Bose