IN RESPONSE TO A CHARGE LEVELLED AGAINST NETAJI THAT HE WAS A DICTATOR IN THE MAKING

This is called blissful cherry-picking, quoting out of context to suit one's prejudices, and the continuing saga of betrayal by people not yet grown fully to patriotic maturity or manhood worth the call to be given much more attention than what they have already drawn to themselves by means of dubious assertions about Netaji's personal ambition to be dictator of free India when all that he had intended by his oft-quoted statements about the necessity of dictatorship in India post-independence was that of dictatorship of the Congress for a period of twenty years to bring about order and discipline in a vast populace scattered by the forces of freedom. These critics of Netaji cleverly leave out so many other quotes of his that prove him to be a supreme democrat despite some such departures in statements pertinent to the historical occasion, perhaps, or in effective illustration of a political point or point of governance that to fools have a stupefying effect, paralysing their faculty of wise judgement of the hero's true intentions. I rest my case here. The rest readers may read to find out for themselves which, after all, is the best way to go about settling matters in the mind. Jai Hind!