{"id":2749,"date":"2013-07-13T01:43:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:43:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:43:37","slug":"53-bande-mataram-12-4-07-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\/53-bande-mataram-12-4-07-vol-06-07-bande-mataram","title":{"rendered":"-53_Bande Mataram 12-4-07.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tBande Mataram<\/font><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\t{ CALCUTTA, April 12th, 1907 }<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nThe Proverbial Offspring
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\nThe great Mr. Morley has received the Viceroy’s dispatch on the question of widening the powers of the Legislative Councils. It is
\nlong and important and requires his mature consideration, and he cannot therefore have it discussed in the Parliament. It has
\nbeen prepared in secret, will be matured in secret, and then the official Minerva will see the light of the day in panoply. It will
\nbe born a settled fact. Rejoice, ye Moderates! The millennium is drawing nigh. The heart of Mr. Gokhale must be beating a
\nlittle faster in anxious expectation. The tiresome voyages across the seas, his fervent appeals to the British public by day and his
\nluminous conversations with Mr. Morley by night, are about to bear fruit. The mountain is in labour and will in due course
\nproduce the proverbial offspring. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nBy the Way
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\nAdversity brings us strange bedfellows, says the poet, but surely it never played so strange a freak as when it brought Babu Surendranath Banerji and Mr. N. N. Ghose under the same political counterpane. Time was when the cynic sneering self-worshipper
\nof Metropolitan College and the flamboyant, brazen-throated Tribune of the people were poles apart in their politics. The Tribune ignored with a splendid scorn the armchair prosings of the Cynic; and the unsuccessful Cynic was always digging his fang of
\ncultured envy into the successful Tribune. How all is changed! Adversity has come upon both; the floods of Extremism are
\nwashing over the political world; and the literary recluse who   
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\nwould fain pose as a politician holds out his arm of succour from
\nthe select little Ararat to the great man in difficulties. The mouse protecting the lion and Mr. N. N. Ghose championing the great
\nSurendranath against the attacks of Extremists form companion pictures in freaks of natural history. Whatever else Babu Surendranath may be, he is a great man, an orator of genius, a personality which will live in history. And for him to be protected by
\nMr. N. N. Ghose! Really, really! Of all the humiliations that have recently overtaken our famous Tribune, this is surely the worst.
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\nIf Mr. N. N. Ghose reminds us of the mouse that saved the
\nlion, he still more forcibly recalls Satan reproving sin. We cull a few choice epithets from this gentle and cultured critic in which
\nhe described the new party with his usual sweet and courteous reasonableness. “The men who glorify themselves and singularly
\nenough are glorified by others.” “The new school has scarcely anything to distinguish itself except scurrility and factiousness.”
\n“Its politics are of the do-nothing sort.” “It is moved by the dog-in-the-manger spirit.” “It seeks to thrust itself into notoriety by
\nabusing prominent men.” “In the new school personal malice often did duty for patriotism.” It is amazing with what accuracy
\nthe sentences characterise the political attitude of Mr. N. N. Ghose through all the years that he has been trying in vain to
\nget the country to take him seriously as a politician. Irresponsible, captious criticism, abuse of everyone more successful than
\nhimself, a do-nothing, fault-finding, factious dog-in-the-manger spirit, self-glorification as the one wise man in India,\u2014 this is the
\ncompound labelled Mr. N. N. Ghose. Surely those whom he now turns round to rend may well cry, “Physician, heal thyself.” We
\ncan well understand why he has transferred his attentions from Babu Surendranath to the new party. Envy of others’ success is
\nthe Alpha and Omega of Mr. N. N. Ghose’s politics. When the new party was still struggling for recognition, he extended to it
\na sort of contemptuous patronage; now that it is recognised as a force, he cannot contain his bitterness and venom.
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\n\tMr. Ghose is in raptures over Srinath Paul Rai Bahadoor’s
\npompous and wordy address,\u2014 the Rai Bahadoor was not successful in commanding approval or respect by his speech, so our
\nonly N. N. stands forth as his solitary admirer. Sjt. Deepnarain’s splendid address revealed a new personality in our midst,\u2014 a
\nman with a brain and a heart, not a cold and shallow joiner of choice literary sentences; it commanded the admiration of all
\nBengal without distinction of parties. After that it was inevitable that Mr. N. N. Ghose should be unable to find in it anything but
\nwords. Again we see the ruling passion at work. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tBut Mr. Ghose has another cause of quarrel with Srijut Deepnarain. Has he not dared to talk of the recent birth of Indian
\nNationalism in Bengal? What can he mean? Has not Mr. Ghose been editing the Indian Nation
\n<\/i>for years past? What then is this
\nnew Indian Nation of which Mr. N. N. Ghose knows nothing or this new nationalism which for the life of him Mr. N. N. Ghose
\ncannot understand? Quite right, O sapient critic! Before you can understand it you must change your nature and get what you
\nnever possessed\u2014 a heart <\/i>that can feel for the sufferings of your fellow countrymen and beat higher at the prospect of making
\ngreat sacrifices and facing strong perils for their deliverance. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tWe are really struck by the infinite capacity for not understanding which Mr. Ghose possesses. This is his idea of the new
\npolitics. “They have nothing to do. As they mean to ignore the Government, they will not discuss its measures or care to
\nsuggest reforms. They are waiting for that political millennium, Swaraj. When Swaraj comes, they will assume functions; in the
\nmeantime they must only preach and abuse. A comfortable programme of patriotism.” Hardly so comfortable as the armchair
\nfrom which do-nothing critics criticise do-nothingness. Whether the new school is doing something or nothing, is not for him
\nto judge but for the future. He thinks that national schools and colleges are nothing, that the boycott is worse than nothing, that
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\n\tto awake a new heart and a new spirit in a great and fallen nation
\nis nothing; that to restore the habit of self-dependence and self-defence is nothing. What then is something in the eyes of this
\ngreat man of action? To do something is to discuss Government measures and “suggest” reforms. We are overwhelmed! We can
\nonly apostrophise the editor of the Nation <\/i>as the Greek general apostrophised his victorious adversary, “O thou man of mighty
\nactivity!”    <\/span><\/p>\n

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