Educator, researcher, and social commentator writing/speaking on subjects critical to rekindling the Indic consciousness. Views & opinions expressed are my own.
"May the Bengali arm strengthen India's arm, may the Bengali's word vindicate India's word, may the Bengali never waywardly decide to make himself worthless by seceding from the sadhana [pursuit]of India's Mukti [complete emancipation]."
-Rabindranath Tagore, Mahajati Sadan,1939
Sahib is surprised that Hindus have reclaimed their temple -- just one out of their many, many temples demolished by sundry Sultans / Badshahs.
Sahib did not expect Hindus to be acting like vertebrates.
Sahib expected Hindus to be always servile -- forever in awe of whichever
It is astounding to hear a philosopher - and a faculty member of a premier institute of the country at that - making so many misleading statements in the same breadth.
Firstly, both the names 'India' & 'Bharat' have an Indo-Aryan etymology (from Greek & Sanskrit, respectively),
Let's make a brief list, enumerating only some of Rabindranath Tagore's "service to the crown [sic]" :
1. Forcing Anglophile moderate leaders of the Congress to switch from English to Bengali for making their speeches at Bengal Provincial Congress conference sessions, by
Bengalis - whether Bangal or Ghoti, living in India or abroad, worshipping Kali or Krishna, supporting this party or that party, dwelling in the city or in the village - should acknowledge that their society/samaj is quickly falling apart irrespective of location & opinion. +
Two biggest maladies weakening Hindu society from inside:
1. Regional chauvinism (distinct from self-assured & healthy respect for ethnicity)
2. Birth-based sense of entitlement or lack thereof, namely 'caste'
Reject these, & this society shall attain both Lakshmi & Sarasvati
Did you know that in 1935, Rabindranath Tagore had written a recommendation letter for a young man - a budding Indian scientist from Ahmedabad - seeking admission into Cambridge?
With the poet's recommendation to back up his merit & suitability for a BA course, the young man did
Ladies & gentlemen, see how a Hindutva thinker & poet from Bengal had rationalised the regressive practice of cow-worship in India:
"Everyone knows that even the cow is worshipped in India. Not that India doesn't know that the cow is an animal. Man is strong and cow is weak.
বাঙালীর বিবেকের কাছে আমার আবেদন, যাঁরা এখনো সন্দেশখালির প্রতিবাদ করছে না তাদের প্রত্যেককে সামাজিক বয়কট করুন।
I appeal to the conscience of my fellow Bengalis to do a social boycott of anyone & everyone who does not speak out against the horrors being revealed from Sandeshkhali.
Celebrating Sri Ramachandra in West Bengal can be done much more effectively, connecting with a broader section of our people, when it is done the Bengali way. Patronizing alien cultural expressions in any sphere of activity will only result in gradual degradation as well as
Tolamoolis don't assume that this video is from UP or Bihar. This is from our very own West Bengal. Such scenes were very common across WB during immersion processions of Maa Durga last evening.
Thanks to all the Organisers for paying ode to Lord Rama. Bengal is on the "RIGHT"
গতকাল রাতে
@abpanandatv
চ্যানেলে প্রচারিত একটি অনুষ্ঠানে শ্রী সুমন দে নামক জনৈক অ্যাঙ্কর মুচকি হেসে প্রাক্তন বিচারপতি অভিজিত গাঙ্গুলীকে প্রশ্ন করলেন, দার্জিলিং চা অথবা গোমূত্র -- কোন্-টা আপনার পছন্দ?
এই অ্যাঙ্কর এবং যে সংস্থায় তিনি কাজ করেন, এঁরা উভয়েই খুব ভালো ক'রে জানেন
Maharshi Devendranath Tagore at Jagannath Temple, Puri🧵
There's a belief that, with whatsoever attitude towards the Lord one visits Jagannath at Puri, in that same way the Lord reveals Himself to them.
In 1851, Maharshi Devendranath Tagore went to Puri for a Darshan.
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Rabindranath Tagore has used the word 'Hindutva' no less than 22 times, spread over his 7 different Bengali essays on Indian history, society, religion, and politics.
In these writings, Tagore has analysed the concept of Hindutva in its many facets: as a distinct national
This state of affairs is reminiscent of the tyrannical rule of Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula. That monster used to similarly abduct women from the households of common people in Bengal.
Right after the reign of that tyrant came the Sannyasi Rebellion.
A simple but terrible truth that is overlooked by most people commenting on BJP's poll debacle in West Bengal is the systemic & systematic compromising of WB adminstration (i.e., bureaucracy) whereby a significant section of it colludes with the mafia-party in power in the state.
Purba Medinipur DM Joyoshi Dasgupta, 2010 Batch IAS,WB cadre ( was appointed by ECI ) is transferred by TMC govt .
BJP has won both seats of Purba Medinipur . Price for not working over time to make TMC win ?😃
You spent your entire student life bunking classes & attending union room conspiracies. Never found you in the classroom; and every time I called out your name for attendance marking, someone else was invariably there to give a proxy response in lieu of your person.
Therefore,
Here's a painfully ugly caricature consisting of 18th-century French fashion and Southern India's golden zari-border Veshti jumbled together with rash violence. A real-life হাঁসজারু from আবোল-তাবোল indeed!
There's nothing even remotely Bengali about it (except perhaps for
Halisahar & Jessore - Historical Links:🧵
Members of the royal family of Jessore used to travel all the way to Halisahar upon Bhagirathi to perform their holy bath & ablutions at the Ganga on occasions like solar & lunar eclipses. They used to take a highway connecting Jessore +
East Pakistanis are celebrating the Indian cricket team's defeat at the World Cup finals - thus once again proving the point that they are not Bengalis, but simply East Pakistanis - & that 'Bangladesh' is a mischievous misnomer.
'Bengali' is first & foremost an Indian ethnicity.
Video 2 : Entire Bangladesh is celebrating India's defeat but there is no reason to abuse Indians and their cricket team. Thank God, most Indians don't understand Bengali otherwise they would have declared
#Bangladesh
as an enemy country.
@BCCI
@virendersehwag
যারা খাঁটি বাংলা শব্দ 'রামধনু'তে রাম আছেন দেখে তা পাল্টে 'রংধনু' করতে চায়,
তারাই 'ন্যায়'-এর মতো দীপ্ত উজ্জ্বল পুণ্যশ্রুতি শব্দ থাকতে তার বদলে ব্যবহার করে একটা আরবী শব্দ -- 'ইনসাফ'।
জননী বঙ্গভূমিকে এই আরবপ্রিয় হরিদ্বেষীদের হাত থেকে রক্ষা করতে হবে। হরে মুরারে মধুকৈটভারে!
Don't just outrage on SM at this critical hour. Go out, hit the streets, gather people from all 4 corners of the state, organise visible, large protests. Make your presence felt.
Had any other party in WB politics been in a similar situation, they would have raised hell by now.
Outrageous! The TMC State General Secretary shamelessly boasts about dumping garbage in front of a Kolkata housing society for daring to vote against them.
Is this what 'serving the people' looks like? Pure thuggery and intimidation.
It seems to me that with the reconsecration of Bhagavan Sri Rama in Ayodhya & the ritual opening of the vigraha's eyes, the eyes of many unsuspecting fellow Hindus are beginning to open.
Since the 22nd of this month, several acquaintances told me how they're being
Today marks the 138th birthday of the great revolutionary nationalist Rash Behari Bose - one of the fiercest & bravest Bengali Swaraj-Sadhaka that India has ever produced.
On this occasion, got myself a book on him - published by the press at my Alma Mater Jadavpur University. +
It's that time of the year again!
Welcome to the Annual Raja Rammohan Roy-Bashing Season. Here we take up random myths & half-baked stories surrounding the Raja, create a nice straw man out of them, & then beat the straw man to our heart's content.
I have been writing &
This thread is indeed eye opening.
The language used by Rajaram Mohan Roy to spew venom on H Gods to please Brits, is comparable to EVR.
The fact that our school texbooks hail these men as "social reformers" is an illustration of just how mentally colonialized we still are.
The Bengali ethnic identity embraces practising Bengali Hindus, Bengali Buddhists as well as those rare souls who, despite being born to other ethnicities, revel in the name of Hari/Kali, recognise Mother Bengal & Mother India as ONE living entity AND speak the Bengali language.
Today is the auspicious anniversary of Sri Sri Lokenath Brahmachari's Mahasamadhi. He was a Siddha Yogi from Bengal and lived for 160 years. Very few people outside Bengal know about him, but his life should be explored for the reason that he was one of those rare historical
The Prime Minister couldn't have been more correct in this regard.
And the Bengali bhajan he has chosen to illustrate the point is an excellent choice in terms of both poetic quality & musical taste.
The Bengali may have a thousand flaws in him, but he has one redeeming quality in his character, and it is this: the Bengali knows how to have faith in himself and in God. God willing, this trait alone will salvage Bengal and the Bengali from disasters and inimical forces however
Communists prove, yet again, that they hate the Bengali language & culture - by using Arabic & Urdu words like "Insaf" & "Azadi" in their slogans for rallies held in West Bengal.
They're anti-Bengali to the core. Here the right Bengali words would be Nyaya/ন্যায় & Mukti/মুক্তি.
যারা খাঁটি বাংলা শব্দ 'রামধনু'তে রাম আছেন দেখে তা পাল্টে 'রংধনু' করতে চায়,
তারাই 'ন্যায়'-এর মতো দীপ্ত উজ্জ্বল পুণ্যশ্রুতি শব্দ থাকতে তার বদলে ব্যবহার করে একটা আরবী শব্দ -- 'ইনসাফ'।
জননী বঙ্গভূমিকে এই আরবপ্রিয় হরিদ্বেষীদের হাত থেকে রক্ষা করতে হবে। হরে মুরারে মধুকৈটভারে!
জল থেকে জলত্ব টেনে বের করবি, আগুন থেকে অগ্নিত্ব টেনে বের করবি, মাটি থেকে ভূমিত্ব টেনে বের করবি, হিন্দুধর্ম থেকে হিন্দুত্ব টেনে বের করবি - সুপারহিরো!
আবার নাকি আমাদেরকে দেশ থেকে উৎখাত করবে। শখ কত পোলাপানের আমার!
শুনে রাখ, এটা কিউবা কি ভেনেজুয়েলা নয় - এটা ভারতবর্ষের আর্যাবর্ত।
This administration is both importing voters and creating a national security threat from unvetted illegal immigrants.
It is highly probable that the groundwork is being laid for something far worse than 9/11. Just a matter of time.
Minutes away from now is 'Bodhan', i.e., the sacred ritual inauguration of Sri Sri Durga Puja of the Sharad season. Momentous as it is for the entire world, this occasion is especially meaningful for the Bengali. We are poised to go joyfully into the annual sacred festivities
Thank you, Anand. Here are 3 factors that helped me:
1. Primary & secondary education in my native language Bengali
2. Getting trained in a traditional Indian performing arts discipline from early on
3. Continuous questioning of received knowledge & practices
Hare Murare🚩
For all those who emerged from our education system with degrees in the Humanities but did not become communists, leftists, entitled little whackjobs - I have nothing but respect.
You must have read the same biased books, had the same sociopaths as peers; how did you manage it?
As a citizen of India, and as a descendant of Eastern Bengali Hindus who were forced to flee their native land for dear life and move to Calcutta's suburbs in 1946, I call upon the Govt of India to act immediately to save the lives, property, and human dignity of Hindus in East
তার মানে দলের শীর্ষনেতারা এই মারাত্মক ভুলটি শুধরোচ্ছেন। ভালো লক্ষণ। তাঁদেরকে ধন্যবাদ এবং শুভেচ্ছা।
এদিকে চুনোপুঁটিরা এখনো এই পূর্বকৃত পাপকে জাস্টিফাই ক'রে চলেছে। এদের জাস্টিফিকেশন? "কলকাতা পাপের আগার রে...কলকাতার বাইরে রাজ্যের বাদবাকি জেলার লোকজন সব স্বর্গের দেবদেবী রে..."
The same way the Indian identity predates the Republic of India by 2300 years (at least) - as is testified by Greek authors writing specifically about "India" at the time of Alexander III of Macedon, and specifically about Gangaridai/Ganga-Hriday, i.e., Bengal, as part of India:)
Praying to Bhagavan Sri Rama for the security & well-being of the Mothers of Sandeshkhali during these dreadful nights and days.
May West Bengal be free from this reign of terror & terrorists sooner rather than later!
The real enemy is not the outsider or bohiragoto - whether in terms of religion or in terms of language - it is our own lack of strength & faith. At present we do not possess the strength to stick together for a greater/higher cause (such as country or God), we give in... +
Remembering the Bengali bravehearts who, in order to preserve their culture & language in their own land, sacrificed their lives facing police atrocities & ethnic hate in Silchar, Barak valley, on 19 May 1961:
Kamala Bhattacharya
Hitesh Biswas
Kanailal Niyogi
Satyendra Deb
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While in Hindi the most common name of the rainbow is "Indradhanush" (literally "Indra's bow"), the most common Bengali term for it is "Ramdhanu", i.e., the bow of Lord Rama.
Of course, the East Pakistanis would have you believe that it is "Rangdhanu", because, well, you know:)
Saffronisation of Calcutta!
Common Bengali men, women & children screaming "Jai Sri Ram" at the top of their voice, frenziedly welcoming PM Modi at the heart of the city, showering flower petals & tears of joy...
Yeh kya hua? Kaise hua? Kab hua?
Your fears and doubts would vanish if you only read about the tyranny and degeneration that occurred in 1750s-60s-70s Bengal during the misrule of Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah and immediately after.
Almost the whole of Bengal had turned into a veritable cremation ground. "Chhiattarer
@sreejit_d
🙏 But I am afraid the amount of cultural, political, demographic, economic damage that we have done to ourselves, the way erosion of values have reached every individual, whether we will have that magnimous faith to undo all these and come out as a clean society.
আত্মবিদ্বেষী বাঙালীর নমুনা :
যে ধর্ম পালন করেন ব'লে এই ব্যক্তি দাবী করছেন, স���ই ধর্মকে হেয় করবার - সেই ধর্মে বিশ্বাসীদের মনে হীনম্মন্যতা তৈরি করবার একটি অতি-পরিচিত এবং অতি-ব্যবহৃত বিদ্রূপকে ইনি ঐ একই ধর্মবিশ্বাসী অপর ব্যক্তির উদ্দেশ্যে প্রয়োগ করছেন।
একেই বলে জেগে ঘুমোনো।
Model of the Jagannath Dham being built at Digha by WB Govt; being built over an area of 20 acres, the main temple will be of 65 mtr height; expected to be inaugurated by mid - 2024. Hopefully with this Jagannath Dham, the tourist load from WB at Puri will reduce.
Apart from his pioneering role in Indian archeological excavations leading to the recovery of Indus-Saraswati Valley sites, Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay was also a great advocate of writing history in Modern Indian Languages like his mother tongue Bangla. He was the 1st to recognize +
Humble pranams on the birthday of the great Rakhal Das Banerjie.
12 April 1885 – 23 May 1930
We can only imagine the thrill and excitement of his hunts for antiquities.
Another myth: "Macaulay imposed English education on India". If you trust RC Majumdar's words, read the 10th vol. of his "The History& Culture of the Indian People". There he shows how it was the Native Indian people who eagerly set up English schools&colleges well before 1835. +
@DebajyotiBis
@harshmadhusudan
@sreejit_d
And I am NOT talking of world population but Indian pop. As per Brit own records, 70% of Indians were educated in elaborate edu network of Bharat that Macaulay destroyed. At tht time, 95% of Brits were illiterate. They took and implemented our system in their country while 3/
হতে পারে বৈকি। নয়তো এমনি এমনি কি আর নবদ্বীপের কৃষ্ণানন্দ আগমবাগীশের মতো পণ্ডিতপ্রবর তন্ত্রসাধকেরা পঞ্চগব্য ব্যবহারের নিদান দিয়েছেন? তবে সে নেশায় অন্য ক্ষতিকর নেশা কাটে -- অনেকের মার্ক্স-এঙ্গেলস-লেনিন-স্তালিন আবার অনেকের মাও-মামাটিমানুস জাতীয় নেশা ছুটে গেছে। ট্রাই করতে পারেন।
...too easily to material temptations, too many of us look down upon being close to our roots, we've outsourced the work of writing & interpreting our history, we fall prey to false pride, we readlily forget that we are not merely this body & intellect, but the glorious Atman. +
Last year, in a post written on this platform, I had refused to describe this country by the name 'Bangladesh' and called it East Pakistan instead, because: 1) firstly it's a misnomer -- here only the Eastern half of the historical Bangladesh/Bongodesh region of the Indian
Folk artist Ratan kahar from the land of Birbhum is awarded Padma Shri !
For years TMC made Birbhum the land of Anubrata Mondal. BJP is on a mission to reclaim the lost glory of Birbhum by awarding Padma to its people
"Cow Belt"
Irrespective of who you vote & what your political opinion is, if you use cow as a symbol - verbal or graphic - to DEMEAN any section of Indians (meaning those who are Indian in thought and feeling & not merely on govt id's), the joke is on you.
An Indian worth the
Cow belt logic:
Day 1:
Vote for Modi ! Vote for Hindutva !!
Day 2:
Travel in over-crowded sleeper class trains to Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata for work.
The Bengali ethnic identity embraces practising Bengali Hindus, Bengali Buddhists as well as those rare souls who, despite being born to other ethnicities, revel in the name of Hari/Kali, recognise Mother Bengal & Mother India as ONE living entity AND speak the Bengali language.
Though the banal headline (different from the title I gave) kind of ruins the piece, I encourage you to read it. Here I discuss how National Education is predicated on Nationalist History - as envisaged by figures like Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore & Sri Aurobindo:
Yet another document (see quote tweet) highlighting the historical role of Indian communists in betraying the Motherland.
As I have said earlier, the communists of India are rank traitors & Quislings. Their murderous ideology spawns oikophobes in their hundreds.
Here is Gandhi-ji writing to PC Joshi in 1944 asking to see their audited accounts and complaining that CPI was deliberately infiltrating the Congress in order to provide information to the British about freedom fighters
It'll take a lot more than posting RESIGN NOW on social media for justice to prevail.
For starters, why don't you put pressure on your party's central leadership to do the needful? Everyone from WB knows that the state administration here is compromised. Centre must rein it in.
What a disgraceful display of cowardice from Mamata Banerjee, canceling the legendary derby because she’s petrified of protests over the RG Kar incident!
Thousands of police officers beating down peaceful supporters, yet this government still can’t handle a football match?
From being the first politically organised (in the modern sense of the term) Indic ethnic group in colonial India (largely a legacy of Rammohun Roy, Devendranath Tagore, Nabagopal Mitra, Rajnarayan Bose, Bankim Chatterjee, Surendranath Banerjee, and Anandamohan Bose) to becoming
Never forget:
This is the man who insinuated that religiously persecuted minority Hindu, Sikh etc. refugees coming here from Pak, Afghanistan & East Pak will cause a sharp rise in violent crimes - including rape, robbery & rioting - in our country. He said they will set up
#WATCH
| On CAA implementation, Delhi CM & AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal says, "There are approximately 2.5-3 crore people put together who are minorities in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. These are poor countries. Out of these 2.5-3 crore people, if even 1-1.5 crore people
Don't forget: A dhoti-chadar-clad pundit with a proper shikha used shastric pramana-s to fast-forward the Hindu society of Bengal to a progressive Modern Age. Teacher to both Indians & Europeans, the authority & acceptability of this learned Brahmin far exceeded a random judge's.
The ethnic identity 'Bengali' has no locus outside of the larger Indic identity. Only those adhering to Indic × (values + culture + language) have historically been recognized as a Bengali by the Bengali - no one else.
Hence the restoration of the Ram Mandir excites the Bengali.
Yes, you spineless anonymous Kanglapokkhi, they do. The best of Bengal - be they from Sylhet (Bipin Pal), Chattogram (Nabin Sen), Dhaka (R.C. Majumdar), or Kolkata (Swami Vivekananda) - they've always used the Graceful Standard Bengali in the timeless literature they produced.
শ্রী সনাতন রুদ্র পালের পদ্ম-সম্মান আমাদের পক্ষে একটা বিরাট গর্বের বিষয়। আমরা বড় হয়েছি ওঁর প্রতিমা দেখে, পাড়ায় এবং অন্যত্র।
সাবেকি বলতে যা বোঝায়, ওঁর তৈরি প্রতিমা ঠিক তা নয়, কিন্তু তাতে কিছুই এসে যায় না। আসল কথা হ'ল, উনি প্রতিমা শিল্পে মৌলিকত্ব ও নিজস্ব ঘরানা এনেছেন।
Sanatan Rudra Pal - the man behind most sabeki Maa Durga and Kali idols , gets honoured with Padma Shri.
BJP doesn't only talk about Sanatan Dharma but also knows how to honour SANATANs too .
Happy Akal-Diwali to Everyone!
'Akal' because:
1. It's an untimely celebration
2. Both the usual Diwali & this Diwali we celebrate the homecoming of He who is 'Akal', i.e., Timeless, Beyond Time, Unbounded by Time
What more proof do you need of 'Akal' than this resurrection?
Much like today, Bengal was in a morally & materially decrepit state in the 1830s. Her only leading light, Raja Rammohun Roy, had just passed away untimely in distant Bristol. A young deputy magistrate felt the pain of the country in his heart, & received a divine vision:
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Reminds me of the Indian state's treatment of persecuted Hindu refugees from Eastern Bengal in late 1940s thru 1950s. The Nehru Sarkar was unwilling to allow these hapless souls to cross what became international border overnight. Once they did, they were denied ration & tents. +
And this is how we fight out civilization battles. We cannot even protect the minority Hindus fleeing persecution with basic house and water.
@dabi_tina
is a classic example of what's wrong with the structure of civil services in our country.
I hope
@BJP4India
in Rajasthan are
এই ভোটে পশ্চিমবঙ্গের বাইরে থেকে অবাঙালী প্রার্থী ভাড়া ক'রে আনবার হিড়িক দেখে এককালে লেখা এই পুরোনো ছড়াটা মনে প'ড়ে গেল। তাই আরেকবার ঝেড়েঝুড়ে তাক থেকে পেড়ে আনলাম।
"বহিরাগত কারা"
শ্রীরামকৃষ্ণ-সারদা এড়িয়ে মার্ক্স কপচায় যারা,
বিবেকানন্দ-অরবিন্দকে সরিয়ে রেখেছে যারা,
What sets our ancestors apart from us isn't time - for time is but an illusion, it is the unflinching faith in Atman. This one factor makes the race of Atish Dinpankar, Ramapala, Chaitanya, Madhususan Saraswati, Rammohun, Bankim, Rabindranath, Vivekananda, Kanailal & Netaji...+
রামজন্মভূমি বিষয়ে একটি অসাধারণ তথ্য়নিষ্ঠ বই হলো শ্রীমতি মীনাক্ষী জৈন রচিত ""দ্য় ব্যাটল ফর রামা""।
বাংলায় তেমন কোন লেখা রয়েছে কি? অন্তত কোন অনুবাদ?
নাকি শুধুই ভামরচিত বা আবাপ-কৃত মিথ্যাচার ছাড়া বাঙালির কোন গতি নেই?? (যদি ইংরেজিতে অপটু হন)
@tathagata2
@DipanBandyopad1
আজ বছর শেষে চৈত্রের সংক্রান্তিতে জনৈক বাঙাল বাড়ির ভোজ।
সকালে: দই-চিঁড়ে
দুপুরে: শাক, ভাজা, যাবতীয় সবজি দিয়ে তৈরি পাচন, উচ্ছে দিয়ে তেতো ডাল, নতুন কাঁচা আম দিয়ে টক ডাল, এবং আমের চাটনী। এইদিন থেকেই এঁদের অফিশিয়ালি নতুন আম খাওয়া শুরু।
এদিন এঁরা বিশুদ্ধ নিরামিষ খেয়ে থাকেন।
Kangla Pokkho is constantly trying to alienate unsuspecting Bengalis from the mainstream of Indian life.
In this instance, it attempted to create ill-feeling in the heart of Bengalis towards the Ram Mandir being built in Ayodhya, but its mischievous lies got exposed.
হরে মুরারে
Happy to share that a paper I co-authored, titled Chhath: Making Sense of Human-Nature Interrelations through the Sun Festival in India, has been accepted for presentation at the 2024 AOM annual meeting, organised by the Academy of Management, NY, USA.
Here's Calcutta Bengalis coming out on the streets, once again, in solidarity with their relatives across the border. Proud of my fellow city-dwellers--they're a lovely people with a heart that beats for their relatives.
And this is not the first time that Calcuttans have been
Even Raja Rammohun Roy & Maharshi Devendranath Tagore used to rely on Telugu/Tamil Brahmins to get Veda chanting done at the Adi Brahmo Samaj premises. This was in the first half of the 19th century, Calcutta. So it's not a new phenomenon.
Attended an Upanayan ceremony (poite in Bangla) in Kolkata and there was a group of 6-7 people doing Vedic recitals. On inquiring I learnt they were from Tamil Nadu but there was enough demand here that they had a permanent base in Kolkata.
Amazing, the connections we have.
With pleasure, Bhai. Here you go:
1. Lectures from Colombo to Almora (English) - Swami Vivekananda
2. Swami-Shishya Samvad (The original Bengali text - & strictly not the English translation which is actually abridged / truncated) - Sharacchandra Chakraborty
3. The quartet of
> Greatest Bengali novelist & critic Bankim first coins the term 'Hindutva' & outlines its contours in two of his well-known works "Anandamath" & "Dharma-tattva"
> His mentee Chandranath Basu outlines Indian history from Hindu indigenous perspective in a book & titles it
Four years before Chandranath brought out his "Hindutva: Hindu-r Prokrito Itihaas" (1892 CE), his mentor & pioneer Bengali novelist Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay used the term 'Hindutva' in his "Dharmatattva Part I -Anushilan" (1888 CE).
Credit of coining the term goes to Bankim.
Chandranath Basu coined the term Hindutva. In 1892, he produced his magnum-opus "Hindutva,Hindur Prakrita Itihas" and many other notable works.
He was from Kaikala, Hooghly, Please 🙏 do something in His memory.
@me_locket
@tathagata2
@DrSukantaBJP
Those who tout Rabindranath Tagore as the champion critic of nationalism, understand neither Tagore nor Indian nationalism. His target audience for the "Nationalism" essays was post-WWI Western world.
The poet was as much a nationalist as any other great Hindu intellectual of
Both my parents families & their extended families were victim to this systematic & religiously motivated ethnic cleansing of Bengalis (i.e., Hindus of Bengal) from East Pakistan.
They were forced to leave everything they had back in places like Chandpur, Comilla, Dhaka &
Mrinal Sen's films are replete with scenes which seem custom-made for highlighting PM Modi's welfare schemes.
Example: The scene from Chalchitra (1981) where the protagonist Dipu (struggling to find a job at a newspaper company) is bothered by her mother toiling in their
And by forgetting this, we lose our faith in Atman.
But not all is lost. Our forgotten faith in Atman the Supreme can be restored; and we can live up to the high standards set forth by our venerable ancestors, by uttering - by breathing - by internalizing prayers like this one:
This attack proves that both organizations are on the right track.
More power to the Bharat Sevashram Sangha & the Ramakrishna Mission!
জয় ঠাকুর শ্রীরামকৃষ্ণ, জয় প্রণবানন্দজী মহারাজ!
হরে মুরারে মধুকৈটভারে🚩
...an altogether different race from the present-day Bengali. Each day, we grow apart from our ancestral calling - i.e., placing an unflinching faith in Atman - by travelling at the speed of light, further & further away from our ancestors. We ask: খাবো কী?; but we forget:
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It's not Rabindranath Tagore who assisted Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose with his experiemental demonstrations in the US - it was the Poet's son Rathindranath Tagore who did so.
Rathindranath was studying at the University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign at the time. He wrote of
The literary exchange between RN Tagore & J.C. Bose is a treasure in Bangla literature. As family friends, they exchanged more than 100 letters, well-archived in books. Rabindranath composed the inaugural song of BVM and also assisted A.J.C. as a demonstration assistant overseas!
Delighted to see Dr
@anirbanganguly
gifting PM Modi a framed portrait of Rishi Rajnarayan Basu -- the first Modern Indian to have asserted the superiority of Hinduism & Hindu civilisation in a speech delivered in 1870/1871, in the presence of Maharshi Devendranath Tagore. +
An indelible, forever moment, Prime Minister Shri
@narendramodi
Ji in Baruipur, Jadavpur Lok Sabha, addressing a historic rally for
#ViksitBharat
, for
#PhirEkbaarModiSarkar
An intense moment, hearts swelling with gratitude and resolve!
সন্দেশখালি ও সমকালীন বঙ্গসমাজ
শ্রীজিৎ দত্ত
নীরদ চৌধুরী বাঙালীকে আত্মঘাতী জাতি হিসেবে চিহ্নিত করেছিলেন। কিন্তু বাঙালী যে আদৌ আত্মঘাতী নয়, তার মধ্যে যে এখনও তেজ-বীর্য-সজীবতা অবশিষ্ট রয়েছে, তার প্রমাণ হাতেনাতে দিয়েছেন সন্দেশখালির বিদ্রোহিনী কৃষিজীবী বাঙালী নারীরা, যাঁরা এই
সেই এক ছবি জেগে ওঠে মনে,
পাঁচশ' বছর নির্ব্বাসনে
কাটিয়ে শ্রীরাম আপন ভবনে
এসেছেন ফিরে যবে -
জাগেনি কি তাঁরো চক্ষের কোণে
অশ্রুর এক কণা সেই ক্ষণে,
তৃপ্তি, বেদনা এমন মিলনে
দেখেছে কি কেউ ভবে?
- গান্ধীনগর, ৮ই মাঘ ১৪৩০ (ইং ২৩ জানুয়ারি ২০২৪)
The popular perception of Modi-Shah going easy and soft on the TMC criminals-in-chief is a major reason for the BJP's poll debacle in West Bengal. But now the attempt is to pin it all on Suvendu Adhikari.
Sycophancy, Mediocrity, Jealousy as usual.
Akshaya Tritiya is also very important to numerous Bengalis who follow Sri Ram Thakur (1860-1949), a great Yogi from Eastern Bengal who had attained Nirvikalpa Samadhi on this auspicious day.
People who have lost touch with their national culture would not remember such things.
শৈশব থেকে বাঙালির ঘরে ঘরে অক্ষয় তৃতীয়ার উদযাপন দেখে আসছি। বাঙালি হিন্দু কি ধর্মীয় উৎসব পালন করবে সেটা বাঙালি হিন্দুই ঠিক করবে। বাকিদের নাক গলানোর দরকার নেই....
I think you are confusing Bengali culture with East Pakistani culture.
Bengali culture is the worship of Sri Sri Durga, Sri Sri Kali Mata, and Sri Sri Radha-Madhava; observing Shiber Gajon & Charak Mela; reciting of Sriram-Panchali, Kashidasi Mahabharata, Sri Sri Lokkhir
@sreejit_d
What is Bengali culture ? To garland suhrawarthy and mujibar rahman ignoring Shyamaprasad and Gopal Patha ? To stop Visarjan in Dashami for muharram ? To demarcate mslim area officially ?
Only oikophobes such as communists & Kangla Pokkho use the 'cow' as a jibe. No self-respecting Hindu would ever do that, nor would they encourage such behaviour in anyone - instead they'd condemn it.
As far as I can see, if any area were indeed 'cow belt', it would be one of the
@sreejit_d
@GBudhau
@LifeDivine108
I just want to know the repeated usage of "Cow Belt" in his tweets
Thatt person claims to be fighting for Bengali Hindus and doesn't he know who use Cow Belt jibes on Hindus to deride them?
According to my team who has visited
#Sandeshkali
, police has filed complaints against the relatives of women victims instead of filing their complaints. Villagers are been terrified equally by goons and by the police. This is the way Mamta did treats women in West Bengal.
Indeed. And, when Haridas Thakur passed away in Puri, nobody came forward to perform his last rites - as he was born a Yavana - except one man: Sri Chaitanya Deva. Mahaprabhu lifted Haridas's body in his arms & carried him to the seashore, to offer him Samadhi with his own hands.
He respected the maryada of Jagannath Puri and continued his sadhana from outside. Such was the avastha of this sant that even though he could not get darshan inside, his ishta-dev Chaitanya Mahaprabhu would personally come to visit him outside of the mandir.
"ধর্ম যবে শঙ্খরবে করিবে আহ্বান
নীরব হয়ে, নম্র হয়ে, পণ করিও প্রাণ।"
- রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
গানের নাম "সংকোচের বিহ্বলতা নিজেরে অপমান"। কলকাতায় ১৬ই মার্চ ১৯৩১ খৃষ্টাব্দে অনুষ্ঠিত জাপানী যুদ্ধকৌশল জুজুৎসুর প্রদর্শনী উপলক্ষ্যে গানটি রচিত ও গীত হয়।
Women and children of
#Sandeshkhali
are blowing conch shells (Sankh) for justice....
Loud Sankhadwani is resonating from every home in search of justice, and they hope that justice will soon be served and the day isn't far away.
I hope they tell him to exercise restraint while giving interviews, and to become more reticent as fits his stature, dignity, and the larger interest of the people.