NETAJI REVISITED ... 1

When the titans met at the crossroads of history --- one only wishes Nehru would have had the character to co-operate with Bose and the whole scenario of independent India would have been so different. But, alas! that was not to be and we pay the price for it. The fact that so much we have lost and so much more stand to lose even today, does not seem to awake us from our slumber, entrenched as we are, a nation in age-old stupor, a torpidity which will eventually destroy us unless we recognise the seminal contributions of our valiant ones like Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and his leonine followers, the soldiers of our first national army, the I.N.A. Bose was betrayed by Gandhi at Tripuri, then opposed at every step in his victorious military advance towards the borders of India by counter-propaganda by Nehru and finally, in the worst act of perfidy by the then Prime minister of India, he was allowed to rot in a Siberian gulag when the least initiative by Nehru could have brought back the hero home. Such are the imperatives of political friendship to which Bose was an alien and had to necessarily pay the price of.