WHEN COWARDS CRITICISE THE VALIANT ONES, THE VALOROUS COWER NOT, BUT HOLD ON TO THEIR MISSION SUPREME TO ERASE THE BONDAGE-BLOT

Those that denigrate the violent revolutionary movement of our freedom struggle are not only cowards but are traitors to the motherland. It is these emasculated people who lack the daring and the courage and the high idealism of self-sacrifice even unto death who are apologists for the cause of non-violence as being the sole legitimate means of the struggle for independence against British imperialism and it is these who cast aspersions on the valiant heroes of our freedom movement. When the motherland is molested beyond all limits of endurance, to offer passive resistance may be expedient for an unarmed people, but to develop it into a comprehensive and conclusive creed that disallows as it disavows armed struggle is to be a fanatical adherent of one's weakness and a proponent of the same which one, in one's vaunted imagination far removed from the world of realpolitik, conceives of as the only course of revolutionary action which is morally acceptable and a sure vanquisher of the enemy by conversion of his hindering heart. It is here that the masculine breed of freedom fighters, differing with their passive partners in struggle, chose to violently uproot the British Raj from Indian soil, valorously ever but with partial success in instances for a while, as in Chittagong, post the Armoury Raid.

The British ruled India with the might of the Indian armed forces serving them. This fact was well-understood and utilised by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose who successfully undermined the loyalty of these troops to the King-Emperor of Britain as he launched his armed assault on the British in the thick of the Second World War, an offence that so inflamed the country against the British leading to mutiny in the Royal Indian Navy and elsewhere in all three branches of the British Indian Armed Forces that the British left in a hurry in August, 1947, granting India independence.

Thus, independence was eventually won through armed struggle and not through non-violent passive resistance of the Gandhian creed and this historical truth is corroborated by the words of no less a personality than Clement Attlee, the British Labour Party Prime Minister who had presided over the Transfer of Power in 1947, who confided to the erstwhile Justice P.B. Chakraborty, Governor of West Bengal, when he was a guest of the Governor on a trip to India in 1956, that the real cause of the British quitting India in 1947 was the erosion Bose had created in the loyalty of the rank and file of the British Indian troops to the British Crown. On being asked how far Gandhi's movement had influenced the British decision to quit India, 'Mr. Attlee's lips became twisted into a sarcastic smile as he slowly chewed out the word, m-i-n-i-m-a-l !' (The words within inverted commas are the direct quote from Justice Chakraborty's account of the conversation.)

So, it is time for apologists for weakness and lies in the name of high-sounding non-violence to wake up and accept historical truth as it is and not as they or their Mahatma and his bandwagon fancy it to be. The nation has been divided by Gandhian weakness which allowed too much latitude to Jinnah and his Muslim League, a fact the Machiavellian British used to their supreme advantage. Generations have been debilitated mentally, morally and spiritually by harping on historical untruths, facile fabrications and a concocted culture of coarse corruption which have virtually emasculated the nation. Time it is to return to roots and nourish the national tree as it ought to be nourished for upon the factual representation of the freedom struggle depends the health of the citizenry and the nation. Jai Hind!