DIVERSE COMMENTS

Thanks, Nandini Biswas, for taking time off to witness at this far-off hour the happenings of the day when in glowing heroism they unfolded before the vision of the world and, so often, so many of them that have gone unheeded by into the chambers of unrecorded history.

Sacrifice, Bhaskar Mukherjee, that has not gone in vain despite the betrayals which are too numerous to mention and remain the shame of a people preparing for freedom.

Out of this bank of the blood of the martyrs will yet arise future India, resurrecting the glory of the spilled blood and restoring the hero and his associates to their rightful place in the pantheon of India's valorous ones.

And, yet again, he was foiled by his perfidious adversaries like Nehru who opposed the INA thrust into India and, yet again, they failed as the tide of the times swept them aside to win for India her cherished goal, freedom by the reaction that the fallen heroes of the INA quickened in the British Indian Armed Forces and in the masses of the motherland as well.

Right you are and it is our holy duty to make as many people aware of the hero's contribution to the freedom of our motherland, for treacherous are the times and duplicitous the purchased performers that go by the name of intellectuals, the hired historians who write whatever their paymasters determine, and leave their dastardly deeds on the pages for future generations to absorb and remain disinherited of their richest heritage.

"I shall send an electric thrill through the nation," Swamiji said. Netaji was the product of that electric impulse of Swamiji and he in turn arose to send shock waves through the foundations of the British Empire that brought about its precipitous collapse.

That is the magic of the true leader that he can take out the best from his followers and inspire them to immolate themselves for a cause.