{"id":2687,"date":"2013-07-13T01:43:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:43:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:43:14","slug":"54-bande-mataram-13-4-07-vol-06-07-bande-mataram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/03-cwsa\/06-07-bande-mataram\/54-bande-mataram-13-4-07-vol-06-07-bande-mataram","title":{"rendered":"-54_Bande Mataram 13-4-07.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\t
\n\tBande Mataram<\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n\t
\n\t{ CALCUTTA, April 13th, 1907 }<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n\t <\/p>\n

\nBy the Way
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nAn old and venerable friend of our <\/i>old and venerable friend the Indian Mirror
\n<\/i>weeps bitter tears over Raja Subodh Mallik.
\nSubodh Mallik is a large-hearted and generous man, laments our friend’s friend; but he is doing immense harm to himself
\nand his country. Is he not partly responsible for the publication of that pernicious sheet,
\nBande Mataram<\/i>, which attacks old
\nand venerable gentlemen and old and venerable journals, and refuses to regard politics as a school for society manners? Has
\nhe not given a lakh of rupees to the National Council,\u2014 an institution for which the
\nIndian Mirror <\/i>cherishes a lively want
\nof sympathy? We call on the young gentleman to repent of his sins, fall weeping on the capacious bosom of the
\nIndian Mirror<\/i>
\nand devote the rest of his possessions to founding a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to obsolete papers and out-of-date
\npoliticians. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n*
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nWe will admit that much that was said and done at Berhampur on both sides was petulant and wanting in dignity. But was it
\nworse than what happens in European Parliaments and political meetings when men are heated by conflict and passions run high?
\nWe trow not. Let us try to be perfectly courteous and superior to other nations by all means; but if we cannot, there is no reason
\nfor disingenuous concealment and a mere Pharisaic pretence<\/i> of superiority. The Japanese have an excellent habit of keeping
\nanger out of their speech and reserving all their strength for acts; they will express their disapproval of you with great plainness,
\nindeed, but also with wonderful calmness and politeness. The
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\n
\nSamurai used to rip up his enemy very mercilessly but also very
\npolitely; he did it as a duty, not out of passion. But of our emotional, sentimental race, so long accustomed to find its outlet in
\nspeech, nothing so heroic can be expected. <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\n*
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\n
\nStill, we think the young men of the New party would do well to follow the example of the Japanese as far as possible. We should
\nbe absolutely unsparing in our attack on whatever obstructs the growth of the nation, and never be afraid to call a spade a spade.
\nExcessive good nature, chakshu lajja <\/i>(the desire to be always pleasant and polite), will never do in serious politics. Respect
\nof persons must always give place to truth and conscience; and the demand that we should be silent because of the age or past
\nservices of our opponents, is politically immoral and unsound. Open attack, unsparing criticism, the severest satire, the most
\nwounding irony, are all methods perfectly justifiable and indispensable in politics. We have strong things to say; let us say them
\nstrongly; we have stern things to do; let us do them sternly. But there is always a danger of strength degenerating into violence
\nand sternness into ferocity, and that should be avoided so far as it is humanly possible.
\n<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
\n* <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n
\nBabu Bhupendranath Bose got little by his attempt to frown
\ndown the Government of Bengal in their own den over the bureaucratic temper of their replies to his interpolations. It is
\nto be feared that the Government have little appreciation for the opposition-cum-co-operation gospel which their loyal subject
\nnot only preaches but practises with such fidelity and vigour. They like their water without salutary bitters. Babu Bhupendranath, however, insists on dealing with Sir Andrew Fraser like a father, and when he makes wry faces at the medicine, treats
\nhim to a painful and public spanking\u2014 whereupon Sir Andrew responds with a backhander in Bhupen Babu’s fatherly face. The
\nwhole affair was most exquisitely ludicrous and futile. But Sir Andrew’s was a nasty and stinging backhander! 
\n<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\t
\n\t
\n “The Hon’ble member himself has not infrequently, either
\non my invitation or of his own motion, discussed with me privately the propriety or wisdom of certain courses of action which
\nhe has followed. I have frankly given him my advice. He has sometimes taken it and he has sometimes rejected it. I should
\nhave considered it a grave breach of confidence, if, in either case, he had published it and had attributed his line of action to me.”
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\n \tSo it appears that often when we have been hanging on the wise words of the popular and democratic leader, the influential
\nadviser of Surendranath, the secret dictator of the Moderate caucus, it was really the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal to whom
\nwe listened and by whose counsel we were guided. The voice was the voice of Bhupen, but the thought was the thought of
\nAndrew. These be thy gods, O Israel!  <\/font>
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