AN ONGOING VERBAL DUEL WITH NARAYANAN GANDHI ... 1

Sugata Bose A day will come when Swamiji and Netaji will rule the history books of modern India along with that other great, Rammohan Roy.

Narayanan Gandhi That day will come, if at all, God forbid it, only in perverted books of parochial Waste Bengal, who cannot think beyond Bengali names

Sugata Bose Narayanan Gandhi, you and your perverted mind that prompts you to always denigrate such a premier personality like Netaji and now your denunciation extends to Swamiji and Raja Rammohan Roy as well.

Narayanan Gandhi My rational assessment of Subhas Ch Bose which sometimes need to include criticism too, is much better than the sheer hatred shown towards Gandhi and Nehru by sell styled Netaji Bhaktas.

Sugata Bose Narayanan Gandhi, agreed about that. But there is a reason for such criticism and you need to delve into history a bit to comprehend the causes.

Sugata Bose So far as calling West Bengal the way you, Narayanan Gandhi, have called it, I must complement you on your creativity and deft use of language and words but must caution you against wasting this golden life chasing wild goose like this on fb.

Narayanan Gandhi Subhas Bose was No. 6 or 7 among Freedom fighters. Gandhi was accepted by all leaders as their leader. Subhas called him Father of the Nation. It is not necessary to waste time in tokenism. Current problems and how to go forward NOW is most important. Congrats to PM in giving a lead to face the situation now with a broader and clear National perspective rather than vote bank or parochial outlook.

Sugata Bose Narayanan Gandhi, your assessment of Netaji as being sixth or seventh in the rank of India's leadership during the freedom struggle completely belies historical documentation done by eminent historians worldwide and merely reflects your own self-preferred view which we wholly reject.

Narayanan Gandhi I think I can produce a good no. of historians to suuport my view which I used by using my wits after some study. You or anybody else or everybody rejecting or accepting my view doesn't really matter to me. What matters is substance, if any, that you or anybody else maybe able to pack into your such rejection.

Narayanan Gandhi Plus my critera was not Freedom Struggle alone. It was their contribution to the country.

Sugata Bose Narayanan Gandhi, who takes you seriously any more, a man whose credentials are buried in subterfuge, whose arguments are flawed as much as historically unsound for they ignore deliberately contrary argument or historical fact as clear as crystal? We are merely having some fun at your expense for you verily comply with it and give us some innocent pleasure at that. So far as Netaji is concerned, it requires stronger blood to appreciate valour than you are possessed with and, therefore, these silly talks that you indulge in are very much understandable by your more vigorous countrymen of better valour, better intellect and better patriotic spirit. Let the discourse, nonetheless, carry on and we shall answer you at our leisure. I must commend you, though, in one department. You are a singular person who keeps the Netaji discussion alive through your consistent opposition to the adulation (undue, in your estimation) of the hero by his followers and their abusive diatribes against the Mahatma brigade. Thanks for your participation in this ongoing verbal tussle which is very welcome for the democratic discourse to go on. However, I find it futile to counter you on every point that you make for I not only enjoy your peculiar line of argumentation but also do not wish to discourage dissent, democrat that I am, as also the realisation that I have had about your obstinacy in opposition to anything that we may posit by way of rationally disproving you and your bizarre arguments for you are incorrigible in that regard and, I dare say, an inveterate opponent to both sense and sensibility to things as refined as sublime patriotism whose exemplar extraordinaire was Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, unmatched by any in the annals of our freedom struggle.