Bravo! Brilliant Madhuri Bose. What a pertinent piece of advice! I hope Narayanan Gandhi will now take cognisance of this and widen his horizons in his supposed bid to understand the historical intricacies of the said times.
Narayanan Gandhi, we await every bit of your recounting of the narrative from the memoirs of A.M. Nair. Do expedite the process of narration in your blog and here as well. Thanks for the effort.
Absolutely valid point, Chandra Kumar Bose. Narayanan Gandhi has descended into the field of argumentation before even having made a detailed study of Netaji's life and works which makes his case rather arbitrary and assumptive.
Bravo, Chandra Kumar Bose! What a starter! Narayanan Gandhi now has work at hand and what a task it will be if he is true to it! It will be an enlightenment for him of a political sort, and why? it may lead to spiritual enlightenment as well, for knowledge begets knowledge and vision ever stands at the end of it all.
Chandra Kumar Bose, brilliant! Never knew you wrote with such aplomb and dexterity and why not, when the case is as pernicious as the maligning of our greatest leader in the name of a quoted authority who hardly stands to any measure of relative greatness for his unitary account to be of such significance as Narayanan Gandhi seems to be making of it.
The problem with a debate that has no moderator ever is, dear Narayanan Gandhi, that it meanders along meaningless tracks and, hence, intransigence on the part of the opposed parties to rationally debate points leads to a dead end where each sticks to his prior position and neither has moved ahead to a resolution of the motion in contention. This we may avoid by being sincere in our effort to know more as Chandra Kumar Bose has rightly observed and I seriously feel you may give it a thought as well to bolster your own knowledge on these epic personalities of the freedom struggle instead of arbitrarily, on the basis of one book alone, passing pronouncement on the preeminent patriot of our times and, perhaps, as some emphatically say, of all time.
Or perhaps, Chandra Kumar Bose, Netaji did not misjudge Gandhiji at all. In his 'Indian Struggle' his analysis of the Mahatma's personality, achievements and failures, and even his prospective career, considering the viable alternatives that could chance given the historical conditions, clearly reveal that Netaji had read him adequately accurately, perhaps, better than the Mahatma did himself. However, to give solidarity to the freedom movement and to prevent a schism in its ranks, Subhas Chandra Bose had ever given the Mahatma his due, and even more, to defeat the wily British from exploiting open differences in the ranks of Congress when he was at home till January 1941 and, thereafter, beyond the bounds of the Congress but within the ambit of the freedom movement when he was abroad, post his great escape from British Indian territory.
Who does so, Narayanan Gandhi? I am making the effort to popularise your translation of snippets of the said memoirs of A.M. Nair and hence the debate has ensued already. What if the people of India take exception to your assertions about Netaji on the basis of your reading and understanding of A.M. Nair's memoirs which they, on the basis of their knowledge on the same subject from diverse other authentic sources, hold it to be a diatribe against the premier patriot of our country? You should not get discouraged by that but should rather, I say, feel happy to be illumined by such inputs of theirs as they ought to be by yours, provided, of course, you do not run an agenda for attempting to run down our greatest hero since the days of Shivaj in an irrational assumptive way.
Expectant. Can hardly wait, for the English translation done by you, Narayanan Gandhi, is eminently good and the contents intriguing and withal a fresh perspective on the history of the times in that part of the world from an eye witness which makes the narrative of particular historical interest whether one likes it or not. History is the impersonal account of events intensely personal and, hence, the raging controversy when accepted versions are challenged.
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