IN QUICK RESPONSE TO AN OBJECTION RAISED AGAINST MY REPEATED POSTING OF THE COVER PHOTOGRAPH OF SAMAR GUHA'S BOOK 'NETAJI DEAD OR ALIVE?' BY WAY OF COVER PICTURE OF A PERTINENT GROUP PAGE ADMINISTERED BY ME

Dear friend,

You have raised an objection apparently to my repeated posting of the cover photograph of Samar Guha's book entitled 'Netaji Dead or Alive?' by way of cover picture of a pertinent group administered by me, which then automatically shows up as a post proper on the group page. Your objection, I gather, is owing to the fact that Netaji in your perception is still alive at any rate, either physically in his mortal body or in your heart as a perennial palpable memory. Well, the answer to your question lies in this that it is to make people read this book and be aware of the truth about Netaji's disappearance in so far as this book goes to reveal it, for at the time of its publication classified files on Netaji today declassified were not yet so, that I have been repeatedly drawing people's attention to this seminal work on Netaji's disappearance by a scholar and a devotee who has spent the larger part of his life in pursuit of the aforesaid truth.

A simple question by way of enquiry may I also raise, dear devotee? Have you read this book? I hope you have. If not, do take the pains to go through it once. Mere emotional effusions will not do. Hard labour in terms of adequate research is necessary to back up one's emotional attachment to Netaji for, as the saying goes, it is the combination of head and heart that does wonders for the hand to eventually execute its resolutions. Only then shall one be worthy of the hero who was such an ardent scholar as well and such a wondrous exemplar of all that goes by the name of sincerity of purpose. Also, do you not see the validity of the name of the book in terms of the terrible perfidies perpetrated over seventy years on Netaji by our own government and by those of foreign countries with a whole lot of vested interests in our home affairs? If so, then why do you raise this opposition to the post, even if repeated, and if not, then why do you not retrace your steps in opposition to the adoption of a more conciliatory approach to the entire issue and get to reading the book which has been penned by a tireless crusader for the unearthing of the truth about Netaji's mysterious disappearance, a Parliamentarian and an author of considerable repute and one who no less than you or me held Netaji in endearing adoration? I rest my case here. May good sense prevail! Jai Netaji! Jai Hind!