Wednesday 15 March 2017

VANISHED INTO THIN AIR? WHITHER NETAJI?

I personally believe that Stalin may have executed him out of his paranoia that knew no bounds even as he did the same to so many of his real and imagined adversaries. However, if Netaji did survive the Stalinist days, then his death at the hands of Khrushchev could have been at the behest of a freshly-forged friendship which discreetly is best left to analysts to apprehend. The British Secret Service according to a wartime agreement with the Soviets interrogated Netaji in Siberia to a gruesome death, so some say. It is all a puzzle but I am convinced that Netaji would never have stayed incognito as a monk in India, unconcerned about the fate of his motherland while the stream of national life flowed on about him. So, I discount the Gumnami Baba angle altogether, although, I agree with its proponents that, from a strictly objective standpoint, every possibility of his whereabouts and his fate must be thoroughly and without prejudice or prior judgement explored and examined before coming to a definite conclusion. Alas! the way things are moving, who knows whether we shall get to know the hero's fate in our lifetime? This is all the more reason why the movement to declassify all information on Netaji must be on and we can add fillip to the movement by our eager participation in it. Netaji's life and death must be our equal focus for we are beholden to him for everything we cherish today. May truth triumph! May Netaji be resurrected in our minds and hearts and may he and his INA be reinstated in the pantheon of the freedom struggle where they truly belong! Jai Hind!

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