THE EVIL THAT WAS THE RAJ ... 3

The non-violence of Gandhi would have died a natural death had it not been for Hilter's violence that broke the backbone of the British and then the INA-Japanese combined assault on imperial Britain that did the damage. So was Gandhi raised to the status of being the liberator of India which he never was in its final outcome for which the entire credit must go to Netaji. Netaji, indeed, was the true liberator of our motherland from British hands. Gandhi contributed by his appeasement of the Muslim League towards the Partition for sure. There he and his political protege, Nehru, played a seminal role, only surpassed by the perfidious Jinnah and the Crown. Had Gandhi been that effective in his non-violence and truth-force (ahimsa and satyagraha) as tools potent enough to free India from the British yoke, he would have, for sure, been capable of defending the territorial integrity of the motherland as well, but in real terms he could not which in itself is a vindication of my proposition that the Gandhian mode did not liberate India and that it was Netaji's revolutionary armed struggle and its armed aftermath in the form of the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny at Bombay, the revolt by the British Indian Army at Jabalpore and the Royal Air Force Mutiny at Karachi, Kanpur and Singapore that did it. It astounds me to reflect on the gullibility of Indians who even today entertain such nostalgia about everything that went weak and debilitating in our freedom struggle, and so conveniently let our valorous revolutionaries who were tortured, deported and hanged for their bid for freedom, to sink into historical oblivion through the self-inflicted amnesia that seems to typify the generation of the day. It is time to manifest manhood yet again even as the extreme revolutionaries did in those dark days of the Raj when the looming clouds above never lifted for a nation of semi-slaves to ever see the sunshine of freedom even in basic human terms. Time indeed it is, O youth of India, for you to assiduously study the history of your forefathers when they battled virile on the plains and the hills and in the very depths of the ocean to set their motherland free. Vande Mataram! Jai Hind!