WHERE INTELLIGENCE IS POWER
Friday, 28 February 2025
COMMENTS GALORE ... 82
COMMENTS GALORE ... 82
Sugata Bose @Priyadarshi Gupta : No, the toxic jihādi ideology of which you are ignorant of apparently---hence your periodic objection on superficial basis---must be countered, defeated and Muslims like European Christians of the Enlightenment rationalised and assimilated in the body politic on the Vedantic basis. Read the Islamic scriptural trilogy of the Qur'an, the Hadees and the Sira and infer. We shall discuss post your awareness of their contents and their application over the last 1402 years since the Hijra in 622 CE right till this day. And by the way, do I look like a fool or a maniac who would propose the exodus of 220 million or more of Indian Muslims from their homeland? It is the Islamic jihādi ideology that has to be defeated just like the Nazi ideology had to be. For that massive awareness is necessary which myself and kindred souls of mine are night and day doing while people like you keep watching idly from the sidelines and quip in a carping one-liner hither and thither, deeming that to be democratic divine deed done. Enough unto the day is the evil thereof. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Priyadarshi Gupta : Read my earlier observation and be illumined about my objective, intent and modus operandi. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Swami Vibhatmananda : This is exactly what the Ramakrishna Mission in Bangladesh should do instead of meekly capitulating before the powers that be. They should stand up to the fanatical forces and defend the rights of the Hindus there who are in the most terrible plight of Islamic persecution. Follow Swamiji and resist. Remember what Swamiji said, "Face the brute." No running away citing apolitical apology. Fight. 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Kapil Patil : We are eagerly waiting for you to lead us. And we will follow you in real earnest. You will be our real rallymaster.
Sugata Bose @Kapil Patil : Yes, and that common sense and logic means making casual caustic comments from the sidelines while exhibiting copious cowardice in calling co-religionists sarcastically as 'Pindus'. Courage indeed! 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Prakash Gupta : অধিকাংশ হিন্দু কাপুরুষ |
Sugata Bose @Disciple : In this way whole life will go and opportunity there will be none to spare a moment for me.
Sugata Bose @Prakash Gupta : Your sustained campaigning is sure opening eyes. The movement is on, imperceptibly though at the outset it may seem to be and a despairing one at that but the momentum will pick up in bursts later just as evolutionary motions do. Keep up with your good work and our support shall not be wanting. 🕉 Hindu!
Sugata Bose @Nilanjana Chakraborty : Oh, you have not befriended sarcasm yet! Meet him and shake hands soon.
Sugata Bose @Amarnath Ghosh : Remember Knott keeping at the Gardens in 1972-'73 in the second Test match of the series. Unbelievable acrobatics. But keeping Gilchrist's incomparably better batting prowess in mind---arguably perhaps the wrong line of thinking when selecting keepers---, I have gone for the Australian. In a Test match, though, a dropped catch could make all the difference. So, you have a point for sure. But Gilchrist kept admirably well to the likes of McGrath, Lee, Gillespie and Warne, thereby proving his mettle against both pace and spin. Knott did no less, perhaps better against Snow, Willis, Underwood and the like. So, the selection balance swings from end to end making it a personal choice at the end of the day.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [SPORTS HUB] : Don Bradman's favourite pastime was to compare players across generations, analyse and assess their respective strengths and weaknesses and infer thereon their relative greatness. So, Gavaskar's statement in this regard is highly uninformed and in consequence erroneous. This mode of drawing comparisons of cricketers across generations is one of the best ways of interconnecting the different ages of cricketing history and one of the brightest features of cricketing history retelling.
Comparing and contrasting are natural modes of intellectual activity and it is the very way in which distinctive cognition takes place. Cricket cannot be an exception to this and happily more intelligent people than Gavaskar do engage in these comparisons throughout the cricketing world, thereby nullifying Gavaskar's averment to the contrary.
Sugata Bose @[Belur Math monks in dance-mode] : Disgusting to see such open effeminacy.
Sugata Bose @Imtiaz Mahmood : Your humour is simply nonpareil.
Sugata Bose @Christopher Stone : Yes, arguably the best batting all-rounder of all time along with Garry Sobers but then I prefer Sobers for his greater bowling versatility, better fielding, either close-in or in the country, and for his doubtlessly better batting ability as manifest in his 254 at Melbourne in 1971 for the Rest of World XI against Australia when he taught the brat Lillee a lesson or two.
Sugata Bose @Rana Bose : Many like you would prefer leg-spin to off-spin but Murali's doosra is deadly.
Sugata Bose @Shirish Nadkarni : But Murali was cleared by the Australian university that did biometrics tests on him, calling his undue flexing of arm while bowling a natural disability which generated the optical illusion of chucking which it was not.
Sugata Bose @Rich Barlow : I tend to agree, Graeme Pollock being my favourite as well. But I simply could not ignore Viv Richards and had to take in Hammond for his additional attribute of fast bowling plus great slip catching.
P.S. Rich Barlow On afterthought Graeme Pollock is in. He has replaced Viv Richards. Thanks for your forthright suggestion. Alan Knott likewise has replaced Adam Gilchrist.
Sugata Bose @Sanjib Mukherjee : Warne's record in India went against him during the selection.
Sugata Bose @Pronab Chakraborty : You missed the surname by a mile. You bowled a wide ball. Now bowl again.
Sugata Bose @Naveed Yazdani : Bias? Can you not get past your insinuation even in cricket? It's simply not cricket for you to allege so.
Sugata Bose @Swami Vibhatmananda : Disgusting effeminacy from an organisation whose founder advocated manhood in every phase of life and upheld it as his central message.
Sugata Bose @Martin Crothers : Murali's doosra should do for the concealed leg-spin for the right-hander and his conventional off-spin would be leg-spin for the left-hander.
Sugata Bose @Martin Crothers : You have a solid sense of humour.
Sugata Bose @Sukanta Datta : But Viv Richards, I thought, was better. Hence, Sachin goes out on account of none of his 51 Test centuries having been single-handed match-winning efforts.
Sugata Bose @Kailash C Sharma : Improve your understanding. The Arabic words clearly enunciate the import of the post. Before questioning first concentrate.
Sugata Bose @Amarnath Ghosh : Brother, Knott is in. He has replaced Gilchrist. A reviewing of video footage of past wicket-keeping greats as well as my own experience at the Gardens tilted the balance quite easily in favour of the Kent keeper.
Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : Unplayable bowler, hardly ever in history seen since the days of Sidney Francis Barnes of England whose record was as prodigious but whose career was cut short by lordly high-handedness of Lord's. Murali's career was likewise plagued by suspicions regarding his action and continues to mar estimation of his bowling prowess as popular narratives catch on fast giving the lie to biometric analysis inferences of his bowling action in Australian universities which cleared him of all illegality.
Sugata Bose @Majid Jehangir : Probably Don Bradman who habitually did this sort of 'mental gymnastics' had an idle mind. Clever definition of indolence, eh?
Sugata Bose @ Manis Kumar Banerjee : Sobers provides the spin bowling balance. The exclusion of Roberts would upset the pace bowling balance.
Sugata Bose @Paul Cowley : Murali was not a chucker. That is a misperception that persists in people who are unaware of the fact that successive biometric tests conducted by specialists in Australian universities had cleared him of all alleged illegality of bowling action, the illusion created by his innate physiological incapacity to straighten his arm completely and his wrist being hyper-supple to be able to rotate beyond normal limits.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [Gad Saad] : Piers Morgan ought to study the trinity of Islamic scriptures before casually making superficial statements about Islam.
Sugata Bose @Steve Maconachie : So, you tilt the balance in favour of Hammond yet again. This is really becoming quite a selection process really, but closing in on the best combination at that. Thanks.
Sugata Bose @Rohini Jalan: Rohini, it is impossible to understand whether you have seen my messages or not as you have removed the blue tick mechanism and brought your Whatsapp profile under the veil. Seems to be the tide of the times, though.
Sugata Bose @Vaskar Dutta : Yes, many are of that opinion. But Murali's indecipherability and matchless record tilted the balance in his favour, although the sheer aesthetic appeal of Warnie's bowling may as yet move me to move him in, especially on a turning track as at Sydney, Port of Spain or in the subcontinent.
Sugata Bose @Boddhisatya Tarafdar : It has been a tough ask to leave Tendulkar out but his lack of match-winning Test performances did the deal against him. But who knows? Post-pondering and further research may as yet make for his inclusion.
Sugata Bose @Sumit Mukerji : Owing to absence of footage on Sydney Francis Barnes I was in no position to judge how good he was. Don Bradman excluded him in his All-time World XI (team selection published post mortem, courtesy, Roland Perry). However, Richie Benaud included him in his All-time World XI. Bradman included him in his All-time England Ashes XI (courtesy, Roland Perry). Old-timers have been unanimous in describing him as the greatest bowler that ever lived. But my predicament was as narrated above. Hence.
Sugata Bose @Sujoy Mukherjee : There are cricketers galore who are strolling on the periphery of selection to this great team but only eleven may be included. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Sugata Bose @Martin Crothers : You have a point for sure but I have gone by whatever video footage I could lay my hands on and by what experts like Don Bradman have had to say on Barry Richards. Also, his phenomenal performances in the World Series Cricket seasons in Australia against the best fast bowlers of the world, especially when he was nearing the last phase of his career.
Sugata Bose @Martin Crothers : But the huge majority are agreeing and where contrary opinions have come in, they have been duly considered, the content researched and adjustments made by due replacements.
Sugata Bose @Kaushik Kumar Ghosh : Did consider Bland initially but on viewing their respective video footages settled for Rhodes eventually.
Sugata Bose @Narendra Borkar : But Bradman is the God of cricket. Perhaps Sobers as well. They are sporting merrily with the men though.
Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : And how right they were! But T20 is worse and I can scarce mention the apparel to define its features.
Sugata Bose @Prakash Gupta : Bengali Hindus are today utter cowards covering up their cowardice behind pretence of liberal culture while being spititually depleted and devoid of strength of character.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [Z Cricket] : The background music is too loud and disturbing. Words softly spoken by the interviewees can scarce be distinctly heard.
Sugata Bose @YouTube [Kolkata Literary Meet] : Was Kishore Bhimani a part of the cricketing squad in 1976 that he keeps on with his endless gibberish while spectator Gavaskar watches in mute 'wonder'?
Sugata Bose @Priyadarshi Gupta : To the Sanatan Dharma. It will be homecoming, not deportation. By the way, is your Qur'an study over? I had long back requested you to go through the Islamic trinity of scriptures thoroughly before making passing observations on the subject to which you are fully entitled, though, but which does not deepen your understanding of the civilisational crisis we, Hindus, face on account of multiple counts, the Islamic count being uppermost on this list. Demographic change and indifference of a large section of, so to say, educated Hindus, to the well-being of the Sanatan Dharma, civilisation and the Sanatanis is the reason which is making conscientious observers lose their nocturnal rest while casual commenters keep insincerely making off-the-cuff unthoughtout remarks to the detriment of our existential cause. This is regrettable and will prove disastrous to us as in the 1940s which led to the bloody vivisection of our beloved motherland. Hindus such as these who are callous to learning about the dangers that face their own civilisation are doing as great a disservice to our motherland as her very enemies in intolerant ideology. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Zahid Mollah : What sort of a profile picture have you put up? It seems a curious hybrid of the cow and the crow, perhaps to be dubbed the cowcrow or the crowcow. It is distasteful, to say the least, because it is a deliberate attempt to hurt Hindu sentiment. Have you forgotten your Hindu roots and have you turned thus against your ancestors? Even aesthetics should deem you to harbour better sentiment towards the faith and culture of fellow citizens which has sadly been sacrificed to satisfy some curious bent of mind of yours. May better sense prevail !
Sugata Bose @🕉Nilanjana Chakraborty : Ah, yes! I mistook it to be cowcrow or crowcow.
Sugata Bose @Boddhisatya Tarafdar : I appreciate what you say and may in a future adjustment to the team consider his inclusion. Right now Headley seems to be on at no.4 although Bradman had gone for Tendulkar there (courtesy, 'Bradman's Best' by Roland Perry).
Sugata Bose @Readers of the All-time Test Match World XI post : Yes, to have left out Shane Warne, Sachin Tendulkar, Andy Roberts, Keith Miller, Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Glen McGrath, Michael Holding, Wes Hall, Viv Richards, Greg Chappell, Barry Richards, Len Hutton, Herbert Sutcliffe, Charlie McCartney, Neil Harvey, Everton Weekes, Frank Worrell, Fred Trueman, Frank Tyson, Harold Larwood, Ray Lindwall, Joel Garner, Godfrey Evans, Wally Grout, Bert Oldfield, Denis Compton, Dudley Nourse, Glenn Turner, Peter May, Ken Barrington, Graeme Pollock, Mike Proctor, Eddie Barlow, Jacques Kallis, Hedley Verity, Jim Laker, Bishen Bedi, Erapalli Prasanna, Vinoo Mankad, Subhas Gupte, Kumar Sangakarra, Andy Flower, Glen Turner and a host of other greats of the game has been a tough task and I hope to put up more All-time World Test match XIs in the future to complement this list. Thank you all for participating so ardently in this entire affair of selection through your critical observations which have largely modified my original choice and helped me put up a more universally acceptable Test XI.
Sugata Bose @Debaprasad Bhattacharya : But He is the summation of all attributes and the sum should include the parts. If He is only beyond attributes and not within our attributed reach as well, how may we ever address Him or send our prayers to which He will respond?
Sugata Bose @Kevin Chowdhury : Don't worry. You are through to Class X. But reform yourself to deserve the passage to a higher class, especially in this critical year which will have lifelong repercussions.
Sugata Bose @Abid Sk : But Imtiaz Mahmood speaks the truth and funnily too to spice up reading and realising thereof.
Sugata Bose @Abid Sk : But what is the rationality upholding your faith? The rationality called 'faith'?
Sugata Bose @Prakash Gupta : Gopal Mukherjee (Gopal Pānthhā) was the real hero, a forgotten one along with countless others owing to our cowardice and complete loss of character.
Sugata Bose @Bilwadal Tapadar : I will if you accompany me. But first prove your credentials by doing whatever I am doing for the defence of the Dharma and our people, persecuted and robbed by crooks of the day masquerading as politicians. Idle comments such as you are indulging in prove your station in life and give out your intent. Had there not been countless such in our society, such rogues that rule today would not have dared destroy the aspirations of our all-suffering and sacrificing martyrs to freedom. 🕉
Sugata Bose @Bilwadal Tapadar : It means you are an apologist for the current corrupt political leaders.
Sugata Bose @Bilwadal Tapadar : আমি তো আর প্রতারক নই যে অনশনের ভান করে ভোজন চালিয়ে যাব পূর্ণোদ্যমে | আর মহান যতীন দাসের স্মৃতির অবমাননাকারীও নই | অতএব, লেখার কাজেই আমার দেশসেবা, ভণ্ডামিতে নয় | আপনার বোধবুদ্ধিতে যদি আমার লেখার তাৎপর্য যথাযথ প্রতীত না হয়, তো তার দায় আমার নয় | বুদ্ধিতে শান দেওয়া আপনার কাজ |
Sugata Bose @Readers of the All-time Test Match World XI post : There have been significant changes in the team composition. Jack Hobbs has replaced Barry Richards, Alan Knott has come in for Adam Gilchrist as wicket-keeper, George Headley has replaced Viv Richards and Sydney Francis Barnes has come in for Wasim Akram. And now Brian Lara has replaced George Headley.
HAIL THE QUARTER-BAKED POSERS WITH THE PRETENCE OF SCHOLARS!
HAIL THE QUARTER-BAKED POSERS WITH THE PRETENCE OF SCHOLARS!
This country has as yet a long way to go before its great men and women get their due recognition. Right now it is hype and hoopla holding sway. Genuine progress is as of now a far cry, a distant dream. Unless the race honours its great men and women in the rightful way, it will neither get direction nor arrive at its destined end which it must, though, in the long run when the greats have been duly honoured and their message heeded to. Popular culture is on now with 'quarter-baked scholars' posing as preacher perfect for a public that knows little other than how to dance to the tune of these dance-masters. The stage is now set for such pretentious practitioners of piety and policy pleasing and appeasing the public of puerile pastimes. This is the scene now of increasing GDP and decreasing culture, increasing desire and decreasing satisfaction, increasing aggrandisation and decreasing effacement. Where is there room enough for progressive thinking, progressive means and measures other than such ones of a grosser breed? So, let the greats languish and let charlatans and hypocrites take their place. Let less than mediocrity reign, that of the 'quarter-baked' scholars infertile to a fault.
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo: Bāchchudā, a genuine intellectual with a seminal sense and a philosophical profundity that was singularly brilliant, an uncommon character of concentrated culture, a solo soul in solitary sojourn through the desert-sands of desire-stricken life that yields but its secrets to only snatch away its carriers before comprehension be complete. Above all, a devotee dipped in divine love, never quite so immersed as to find fulfilment in peace, never quite so straying as to forsake his inheritance, that of the nectarine spray of the sea of love---Ramakrishna. Ever a man floating in limpid spaces of the Divine, ever a man struggling to break through the network of Maya like a lion enmeshed and battling for freedom. Bāchchudā remains the 'song celestial' in my life which was fashioned first in philosophy by his ardent assertions, by his creative, inventive genius, and guided along the route to the endless end where perchance we shall meet again to discuss the deep divine. My salutations to my earliest mentor in the spiritual line.
Thursday, 27 February 2025
FORGET NOT THY HEROES
FORGET NOT THY HEROES
Rammohun has been forgotten as has been the Buddha. Both have been to our detriment. Resurrection of these heroes in the common consciousness will do us a world of good. The heart of the Buddha and the modernity of Rammohun, absorbed and assimilated, will raise India and save her from Abrahamic invasive influence. This is certainly the imperative of the times.
I do not see such fanfare in celebrating Buddha Jayanti or in observing Rammohun's birthday at all as I do witness in the celebration of Abrahamic religious festivals by Hindus and by premier Hindu religious organisations. This is not only unfortunate but perhaps detrimental for us as well as it gives these proselytising faiths leeway to converting us. Or, am I wrong? Does this celebration of Abrahamic faith festivals immunise Hindus from undue conversion?
Written by Sugata Bose
BARRY RICHARDS---GENIUS IN THE WILDERNESS (EDITED)
BARRY RICHARDS---GENIUS IN THE WILDERNESS
Barry Richards was arguably the greatest opening batsman the world has ever seen with no less than Sir Donald Bradman vouching for his excellence. A gifted South African of that mercurial team of Ali Bacher, Barry Richards could showcase his formidable talent in only four Test matches played against the touring Australian team in 1970 when he scored two scintillating centuries to secure the appreciation of critics worldwide. Then came the ban on South African cricket for the government's policy of apartheid and Richards fell into the shade of county cricket in England and for a season Sheffield Shield cricket in Australia while lesser mortals kept playing the game and getting accolades. But the legend of Barry Richards kept building up as he kept on producing brilliant hundreds and double and triple hundreds against quality opposition, be it the visiting cricketing nations in England or the strong county sides replete with foreign acquisition to bolster their ranks, when Richards produced his masterful knocks against them to cement his place in cricketing history. But the best was yet to come. Finally, Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket in Australia gave him the opportunity to test his mettle alongside the best players of the world, albeit a trifle too late, for Barry Richards was now well past his prime. But as usual, the mercurial South African was at his best when the occasion demanded and produced a string of scintillating knocks yet again, and for the last time, to carve out for himself a permanent niche in the hearts of fans and a luminous place in the history of cricket. After Don Bradman's death in 1999 the dream team that had earlier been selected by him which was dubbed 'Bradman's Best' was found to have named Barry Richards as one of the opening batsmen with Arthur Morris his opening partner. The Don had evidently chosen a left-right combination and had given pride of place to Barry Richards as his choice of his right-handed opener. What more needs to be said about Barry Richards than that he was, in the estimation of Sir Donald, the numero uno opening batsman with his rare blend of aggression, an immaculate defence, a perfect technique and the natural ability to score fast and dominate the bowling?
This then is Barry Richards for us, the legendary South African batsman with his repertoire of strokes and talent which never saw the light of day but which remain embedded in the hearts and minds of those who were privileged enough to witness his batting, a veritable virtuoso of batsmanship who will remain etched in our memory as the genius that walked not the cricket green as often as his merit warranted and who had to live with this terrible sense of denial and devastation. Glory unto Graeme Pollock, Eddie Barlow, Mike Proctor and Barry Richards. But for you cricket would have been poorer and with you too the politics of the times made cricket the poorer for it. Hail batsmanship at its highest! Thou never did witness the maestro in full flow. What a tragedy, what a shame!
Written by Sugata Bose
Wednesday, 26 February 2025
WAYS TO OVERCOME THE ISLAMISATION OF BHARATVARSHA ... 4
WAYS TO OVERCOME THE ISLAMISATION OF BHARATVARSHA ... 4
Mohammedan ruination of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain temples has veen one of the most savage attacks on our culture. Thousands of years of artististic labour lost. With it universities destroyed, literature lost, historical records obliterated. This was the curse thrust on us since the seventh century when the first Arab attacks began and we have never recovered from it. History testifies to it. But who reads? Those that do are in horrors. Ours is indeed a 'wounded civilisation' as Naipaul puts it. I would say, even worse, a savaged civilisation. And the remnant is a civilisation of sorts for the best part has been lost for good. We need to resurrect Sanatan civilisation. That will be Bharatvarsha reborn.
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo: Bakhtiyar Khilji's massacre of Buddhist monks
Oppression of woman in Islamic societies has retarded the growth of such societies. Woman gives birth to man. Let no man cover a woman up nor tell her what to do. Freed of her fetters she is more capable than man for she is the mother of man. Which is why the motherhood of God is celebrated in the Sanatan Dharma. Unfortunately, even among Sanatanis patriarchal high-handedness is rampant but it is much less today than in Islamic societies which literally observe scripturally sanctions to the letter so often. "Where women are worshipped, there the gods rejoice," says Manu. This has been forgotten by Sanatanis. But modernity has ushered women's liberation in the West and that is spreading all over the world. But Islamic societies continue to lag behind with oppression of women maximum wherever the Sharia rules. In Iran the hijab ruling is so draconian that women there are in open revolt which is being ruthlessly repressed. Scriptural sanction of beating wives when perceived to be on the verge of disobedience has compounded matters worse. Women are of intelligence half as much as men, need male escort for travel, are contractually wedded, divorced at will by their husbands, have to undergo halālā before remarriage to the same divorced husband, have inferior inheritance rights, are endowed a paltry sum by way of alimony and for merely a three month period
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