2. Modi will attain to iconic status in Indian history if he can reveal the whole truth about Netaji.
3. This was the primrose path of Gandhian politics, not the thorn-strewn path of Netaji's armed struggle which truly freed us.
4. Investigators into the Netaji disappearance mystery must maintain rational rigour for credibility. Fallacious logic proves nothing and one may be held culpable to misleading the people. Credibility once lost is hard to regain and public estimation failing, one is faced with insurmountable barriers in the path of the establishment of truth. Researchers and truth seekers would, therefore, be well-advised to treading the path of caution and not engaging in the hazardous misadventure of making fantastic unsubstantiated claims in their bid to bring about a fanciful quick solution to the protracted mystery of Netaji's disappearance. Neither is it scientifically tenable to pass off undocumented and unauthenticated 'episodes' of Netaji's life as gospel truth on the basis of acceptance by familial or social authority, for the validation of an event and its correct interpretation has to be lawfully established and not by emotional human consent. Thus, the imperative today as always is to be well-grounded in reason, not malefic as rationality traversing down devil's lane is apt to degenerating into while maintaining the facade of adherence to truth, but the genuine striking of rational roots in one's bid to scientifically unearth the real from a mass of falsity and fabrication. Researchers must, thus, be well-trained in scientific thinking that bases its findings on evidence and not on personal preference, prejudice or predilection. They must learn the art of sifting, the technique of picking the grain from the chaff and selective acceptance of data based on rejection of arrant nonsensical stuff. But such rejection must come at the end of thorough investigation of each and every piece of pertinent matter coming through for one's perusal and no bias may be harboured in so far selection of data to be examined is concerned. Any piece of information may contain the seed of revelation of the truth and, as such, deserves fullest attention before acceptance or rejection as the case may be. This sort of impartial attitude is most congenial to discovery of truth and must be the bedrock of all investigation. Lastly, the facts found must be presented in an agreeable manner with aesthetics complementing the concrete core of unshakeable truth for the good and welfare of all. Thus, the trinity of truth, beauty and goodness will have been served well. Jai Hind!
5. Gandhi, Amit Shah had had in sarcasm said was a 'chatur baniya' (shrewd businessman) but he was not 'chatur' (clever) enough to succeed in business at home. He had, thus, to venture forth to South Africa to try his luck there and in the process started afresh his legal business which led him to the vocation of his life, the freedom struggle of his people. Here again he exhibited great 'chaturayee' (dexterity) at 'baniyahood' (business-mindedness) to outwit opponents within his political fold, his comrades-in-arms, in centring power to himself but could not quite match up to the combined might of the malefic elements pitted against him in the eventual analysis by the recoil of karma, for Gandhi himself had so often played foul with his adversaries within and without the Congress in the name of high-sounding ideological principles, more preached than practised in their real intent. And the price of his business liquidated and debts being dealt with, we are paying for the past seventy years and will pay for how long more who knows? Certainly, the 'chatur baniya' does not.
6. Critics of Netaji expose their lack of patriotic feeling and their feeble character. It requires leonine strength to understand a Netaji, far more to be devoted to his cause and sheer sublimity of soul to live every breath for him and die to give life to his dreams of a renascent free India.
7. Facts about the disappearance mystery of Netaji must be dispassionately but sincerely discussed without any attempt to artificially or through self-folly quicken audience emotion or to commercialise for self-benefit, if truth is to be revealed as to what happened to Netaji post 18 August, 1945. The absolute focus must never be lost.
8. The nation needs to wake up to the threat of the Sino-Pak combine and the answer lies in Netaji's military thinking.
9. The voice of assent and the voice of dissent, both are necessary in a polity but there needs to be unity of intent, the welfare of the nation, and in the larger context, the overall welfare of humanity, the survival and efflorescence of civilisation, and the fulfilment of the highest aspiration that can be, the ultimate freedom of the soul of man from the meshes of matter.
10. Revolution throws up its leader in due course as per the exigencies of the times. Till then small awareness, scattered and disconnected apparently but building up to a grander union in time, keeps up the momentum, sending forth the clarion call for freedom till the leader arrives on the scene and offers his sacrificial self to embody the aspirations of a million souls and leads his flock unto final fruition in freedom.
Niladri Banerjee, it was political expediency on the one side to thwart the British from wedging in disunity in Indian ranks and reverence for elderly leader on the other, born out of Netaji's innate spiritual culture, that prompted him to call Gandhiji the 'Father of the Nation'.
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