AN EXHORTATION TO COMRADES-IN-ARMS

Thank you @Satyendra Singhji for having suggested Jhankari Bai yesterday to me and thank you @Wordsmith Rana for having taken up the cause of propagation of her life and deeds so promptly upon being apprised of it. It is this spirit of discovery and the speed of delivery thereof that is crucial to the rise of our nation in right earnest.

@Poulome Mitra Shaw, an entreaty to you, to take up the cause of resurrection of the female freedom fighters who are sinking in obscurity into oblivion.

Same goes for @Nandini Biswas.

Same for @Jukta Basu Mallik, @Pritha Chakrabarty, @Mousumi Guha, @Pradipa Mukherjee, @Abhishikta Anuska Mukherjee.

Women must resurrect women, that is the line to follow.

The history of the nation must be written not by a handful of erudite historians but it must be written by thousands of able researchers and writers, now that the internet affords us such fabulous access to data which was earlier confined to shelves of libraries alone.

@Avisek Banerjee, paint a portrait series of Masterda, Bagha Jatin, Rashbehari Bose, Jatin Das and the like please.

@Wordsmith Rana, now get going with a moving description of Durgavati Devi.

I am talking of freedom fighters and that too, not for any political purpose which I espouse, for I am by nature, strictly apolitical and by affiliation, devoted to the cause of humanity, 'far from the madding crowd' of politicians and their perfidies. So, go ahead with the job at hand as part of your national duty as a conscientious citizen with a mighty pen at your disposal, a gift of Mother unto you and do not bother your head about the bubble politics of the day. Onward, brother, for thine is the hour and thine the honour too to represent the cause of the ones that gave us freedom.

Despite time constraints, in spite of potent pressures of life, @Satyendra Singhji, you are yet arriving at the conclusion of a project of your dreams, your proposed book on Swamiji, Gandhiji and Netaji, is it not? So may we all endeavour to pull in our best resources of time and energy, our creative labour, often in conjoint effort, to serve the cause of the motherland, for in so combining selflessly, we will achieve mighty marvels for the Mother whose very life-force we draw on to survive and to subsist, and the time and effort you talk of Sir, belongs to the Mother Herself, we having but borrowed its use for the while to career along in our earthly sojourn unto the destination divine. So, let us in real earnest work together, complementing each other's work to its successful fruition, to its contemplated end.

We have already started the process. See the way we are pursuing this project since the time when unwittingly we stumbled on to this group without having any clear-cut objective or purpose. Yet, there seems to be an invisible hand that is guiding us to some desired end. See, for example, how you, yourself, got involved in this whole business, and now we are, by your expert guidance, arriving at definite ends whence we may advance into the domain of delineation historical beyond reproach or reproof.
But there is the Emergency Department too @Satyendra Singhji, and we may be the medical personnel who can take the patient out into the sun again by tending to him adequately. Ours is the job cut out for and let us attempt this seemingly impossible mission and I assure you, we may fail in the execution perhaps but will so set up the ideal for future success to follow.

@Satyendra Singhji, for sure, unless my mother's health stands in the way. But, I assure you, I will spare no means to show you all pertinent places around in Kolkata as may be possible within the ambit of available time.

We are on the move @Jukta Basu Mallik and we shall overcome the hurdles in the way through collective effort and an iron will that is pliable to adjustment in progressive refinement but unbending in so far as relinquishing the work once begun. I hope @Suryada will also be able to help us out, being an expert in the field of computer network.
Sorry for the brief period of time I was away, attending to a call at the door. The visitor was a flowing glowing girl of age twenty years who was running the errand of her mistress of fetching for her a letter from Sri Sarada Math wrongly posted to our address. The true recipient and the wrong one, our neighbour in the same housing complex and myself, are both initiated devotees of the Ramakrishna-Sarada Order incidentally and perhaps, many among us are rightfully or woefully brazen about such assumptions of spirituality as comes by package performance of piety these days. But the irony was that the girl on being questioned as to what level she had studied up to, shocked me by saying that she had read up to c;lass 5 and no further because she did not like to study. And here she was carrying back from our house for her mistress a letter from Sri Sarada Math whose presiding deity, Sri Sarada Devi, during her earthly incarnation, had much aspired for education but by male patriarchal persuasion prevented from doing so, her slate snatched from her by her nephew-in-law, Hridayram Chattopadhyay. These were early days in her life when for a young girl to study was tantamount to corruption of character beyond repair or redemption and her only duty lay in terms of receiving education was to refrain from secular studies and only to concentrate on hearing the scriptures and the mythological tales from village minstrels (kathak thakur) who came by right to the doorstep to sing their folklore replete with spiritual input. But Sarada Devi, about whom Swami Vivekananda has said that she was born to regenerate woman-power in this Age, was made of a superior sublime stuff and persisted at her