NETAJI VILIFIED, NETAJI UNDEFENDED, AND YET THEY CLAIM TO BE HIS FOLLOWERS

These are preposterous assertions that need factual validation for a proper debate to ensue. Till then, however, this needs a countering in terms of reasonable deliberation and defence as it seems to be a wild swipe at our foremost leader, deliberate and dastardly, seemingly aimed at working up a controversy to seek public attention at the expense of a great hero which is so ironic, and it reeks of a perfidy that is symptomatic of a decadence that afflicts this pernicious personality who enjoys dishing out distorted imagination as veritable truth. I seriously request all members who are students of Netaji to put up a vigorous defence against this malicious campaigning to set the record straight and also not to exhibit weakness of armoury by indulging in ineffectual invective against Narayanan Gandhi, although, I am sure by now, he will have held me culpable to the same offence. I await your response, for this sort of continuous vilification of Netaji may not be allowed to go unchallenged, especially in light of the fact that Narayanan Gandhi has thrown the challenge already into our court and must be biding time to see how we, ardent followers of Netaji, react to his forays. Despite my strong disagreements with this misinformed gentleman's facile claims from an out-of-print book by A.M.Nair whose Tamil version he purportedly claims to be in possession of and from where he supposedly is gleaning information to level charges against Netaji even to the point of a total restatement of the narrative of the INA and its epic leader, I must say that he in one way is challenging us to make a more serious study of Netaji and not merely rest content, as the majority of us are prone to, with a lazy adulation of this seminal personality of world history and so thinking that we have done our best to honour his memory and message. Narayanan Gandhi seems to relish taking us on in this battle of words and let us not fail him in the fulfilment of this toxic tirade he has initiated by giving him the resounding verbal rebuttals he relishes best and which, if he is receptive to reason and is endowed with sufficient sanity, will set him in good appreciation of the epic life and attainments of the subject of our discussion, our well-beloved Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.