IN RESPONSE TO MY FRIEND BHASKAR SEN SHARMA'S COMMENT ON THE SAD GOVERNMENTAL NEGLECT OF NETAJI

Ever the hammer on the head from you, dear Bhaskar Sen Sharma. Your intrepid voice is a beacon for us in these dark days of diabolic distortion of deeds desperate and daring, redolent of the valorous kshatriya traditions which, debilitated India had well-nigh forgotten owing to the injection of a weakening brand of totalitarian non-violence by Gandhi, an effective method of paralysing the civil machinery of the British Indian Government for a day or two, no doubt, but utterly incapable of bodily evicting the British from the Indian soil. Netaji read the situation well for he had the penetrative intellect which Gandhi lacked. He understood that the source of British power with which they subjected 38 crore Indians was the British Indian Army composed principally of Indian soldiers working for the British. If he could somehow undermine the loyalty of these soldiers to the British Crown by quickening patriotic feelings in their hearts, then the British would lose their grip over India and would be gone in no time. At no point of time in their gory history in India did the British have a sizeable physical presence in terms of man-power either in their civil or in their military machinery that could have faced the raw might of the vast Indian population in direct combat and, it must be admitted, they yet kept their control over their Indian affairs with superb execution of administrative skills by employing Indians in their service to hold down India in bondage. Gandhi made many a hollow declaration of his intent to free India within a stipulated period of time but ever failed to fulfil the truth of his statement as his promises based on an unrealistic approach to the world of realpolitik inevitably failed. But when Netaji knocked on the doors of Gandhian truth-tranquillised India with his INA forcing its way through the north-east, India 'awoke to life and freedom' in no time. Andaman and Nicobar were the first to be freed and they were the first to throw off the colonial hangover when Netaji renamed them Swaraj and Shaheed. Next came Moirang and then the betrayal of Nehru, Gandhi and Jinnah to seal the fate of our motherland as the perfidious British, in a last-ditch attempt to weaken India for good, made common cause with Nehru and Jinnah to partition India while the Mahatma, now conscious of his damaging limitations, watched the proceedings helplessly. His plethora of blunders cost India dear as he truly oversaw the birth of Pakistan, the first Islamic State after the dissolution of the Caliphate, the seed of all future troubles for India and the world, the hub of terror and all that goes by the way of theocratic barbarism. That much for the Mahatma's contribution, by way of final resolution, to the cause of India's freedom which we owe, truly, to the gallant soldiers of the INA led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

Thanks a lot, dear Bhaskar, and keep enlightening us with your illumined inputs of knowledge and their interpretation, and so inspire others to take the cue from you to carry forward the work of the resurrection of Netaji and the INA.