NETAJI AND SHIVAJI, A STUDY IN KINSHIP

Welcome everybody. Please adorn the page with your precious observations. I await in eager expectation to receiving some link which will then spark off the discussion in our group which is becoming by the day dearer to us as we bond in a common love for the motherland and its martyrs and deathless heroes.
Yes, @Maj Gen Gagandeep Bakshi, Netaji never used to give up, even in catastrophic military defeat in World War II. His address to the INA in defeat belies belief, that he was then a fugitive seeking but a refuge somewhere, and seems as if he had just triumphed over the enemy. Unbelievable fortitude and almost prophetic foresight unto the tide of future history that kept him going in the teeth of impossible odds.
Far greater than the Maratha king was Netaji for he was a statesman par excellence on a world level unlike Shivaji, who, for no fault of his, though, was on account of historical conditions, confined to national activity only within national bounds.
Shivaji saved us from Mughal torment while Netaji freed us from the far worse tyranny of the British who despoiled our land and resources and that most precious of possessions, our people, to build the stinking empire that reeks even today of the corpses that had piled up to construct its edifice.
Netaji's escape from his residence in the guise of a Pathan to beyond British boundary and then his return at the head of an army to the very door of British India is so very redolent of the Chhatrapati's escape from Aurangzeb's confinement in a fruit basket followed by his escape in the sannyasi's guise to beyond Mughal territory and his return thereafter as the guerrilla chief to seize control of much of Mughal terrain in the Deccan. Whenever our motherland faces destruction, her soul senses it and sends forth heroes to defend her integrity. Else, these phenomenal beings as Shivaji and Netaji are rare come by in the history of nations, for they are not merely heroes of war but messengers of peace and enlightenment as well, moral guides to humanity, protectors of the weak and the dispossessed, honourable towards womanhood, strong, yet, merciful in the dispensation of justice, and above all, men of impeccable character who drew their following by dint of personality and purity of motivation, supreme sacrifice of self and the spirit of service to the motherland who they envisaged as a living, palpable spiritual entity.