WHEN TRUTH TAKES ITS TEST IN TIME

If you are a sincere follower of Netaji, you will live your life by his principles. Purity, self-control, discipline, patriotism, unselfishness, excellence and efficiency in work, helpfulness, generosity, the spirit of service and renunciation, and the aspiration for perfection are some of the attributes you will imbibe from Netaji and make them active in your life. Above all, you must ceaselessly work for nation-building and not indulge in idle talk, even for a moment, on the ever-increasing conspiracy theories about his disappearance that are doing the rounds these days. If you are truly interested in solving this puzzle, you must copiously read Netaji's Collected Works and works on him by other authors along with studying the declassified files on Netaji, the Enquiry Committee/Commission's Reports and the authentic books written on the disappearance issue.

Fruitless engagement in thrillers about the hero cannot take you anywhere near the truth about his mysterious disappearance. Few take the trouble to study the material available on Netaji's recorded life till 18 August, 1945 and most simply enjoy the thrill associated with fanciful thinking on Netaji's fate post 18 August, 1945, considering such idle imaginings and confabulation thereof to be their highest national duty when their insincerity is potently evident to all who read and research on India's liberator from foreign yoke. And do not please fall victim to sellers of books intent on raising passions about the disappearance issue simply to gain access to the penny which is yours for national service and not theirs to pocket somehow. Do not let Netaji die this way through your neglect of his true legacy.
I am no apologist for any nor do I subscribe to any particular theory as such but I feel that somehow we as a people are losing our contact with the historical Netaji in our idle bid to know the truth of his disappearance. I welcome all sincere researchers and readers to pursue the case but I seriously will dissuade all who are idling away time chasing wild geese. Research is one and weaving the web of falsity quite another. It seems that too much is at stake for too many and Netaji has become the fulcrum of it all. I pity the nation that has thus betrayed him, from the politician to the people, and I wonder if we even today deserve the greatness that had incarnated as Netaji.
Thanking you,
I remain ever yours in Netaji,
Sugata Bose