SURYA KUMAR BOSE, A VIBRANT VOICE OF FREEDOM

A very revealing data-filled interview of Netaji's grand-nephew, Surya Kumar Bose in Germany. Pertinent questions by the interviewer and penetrative answers by the interviewee. Overall, a highly charged question and answer session with bolt from the blue responses by Bose to set viewers thinking along fresh lines about the disappearance of Netaji. One thing more and it is this --- what a clear head this grandson of Sarat Chandra Bose has that could not only give sharp and effective answers to probing questions thrust at it but could augment them in the light of historical happenings and personal and familial interactions with men of mark such as Mountbatten to drive home the point.

A very ordered mind with great control over data which the interviewer found difficult to throw off-balance with a consistent volley of probing questions which Bose answered with precision and poise without resorting to histrionics of any kind that is the wont of our everyday experience with television interviews. Bose did not duck a single question but gave point-blank answers even daring the Indian government of the times for their mysterious motivations post-independence towards the hero of the freedom struggle.

One watches the video to get a clear insight into the mind of a perceptive family member who has spent a lot of his life's time ruminating the issue of the injustice meted out to his great uncle who in every sense was the prime liberator of dependent India from her colonial subjugation. One wonders how humiliating it must feel to be at the receiving end of governmental snooping for decades when one's kith and kin have toiled and bled to free the very nation whose administrative heads betrayed them thus.

Our collective efforts will be to unite forces now in the name of Subhas Chandra and his illustrious elder brother Sarat in our bid to render justice to the premier personality of our times whose memory has become enshrouded in myths and legends of a variant kind far removed from reality and revolving around fantasies and fabrications of a future fulfilment, a foolish exercise in futility. One must take the cue from the rational disposition of Surya Kumar Bose to appreciate how one ought to proceed in the direction of investigative study of Netaji, his life and legacy, his disappearance and dismissal from the perverted presentation of India's history of colonial appeasement post-independence.

Today, let us own up our failings in having allowed this perversion thus far and let us firmly resolve to setting straight the record of our recent history with a will fortified in investigative understanding and in the knowledge thereof, a heart steeled in sacrificial love for the motherland and a mind motivated by pure and unalloyed devotion to the great cause awaiting us, the rewriting of the entire saga of the freedom movement as it had happened and not as it has been fed unto us by leaders lusting for power, devoid of the moral fibre to lead the vast mass of humanity that is India, the India of the Vedas and the Upanishads, the India that flourished on the banks of the Ganga, the Sindhu and the Saraswati and in the high Himalayas whence have issued earliest in human history the clarion call for freedom, the freedom of the soul of man from every indignity of matter and its ilk, the freedom that has been lost for ages and yet needs affirmation in virile action of the hour which is our ploughshare of the work we must perform and pass on the legacy to posterity for further fulfilment.

Thus, shall our nation rise once more to the pinnacle of her material and spiritual glory and in this completion of the act of freedom will we have repaid our debt to the revolutionaries who bled for it and to that prince among patriots, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

A final word of thankfulness to Surya Kumar Bose for having triggered off this chain of thoughts in my mind whose echo will find resonant vibrations in many a kindred soul. Vande Mataram! Jai Hind!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFMTjMMKUok&t=60s