'CHALO DILLI' ... 1

Lord Louis Mountbatten ordered the demolition of the INA Memorial in Singapore immediately after the Allied forces under his command occupied Singapore. This memorial structure had been hastily built at the express desire and command of the INA Commander-in-Chief Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose to honour the memory of the 26,000 soldiers of the INA who had laid down their lives in India's final War of Liberation. Mountbatten sank to a dastardly level to order the demolition of the monument, an act barbaric in human terms and totally not in keeping with military ethics. Later Mountbatten was blown up by the IRA and thus was atonement for his earlier sin fittingly accomplished. History ever avenges injustice. But that was at a personal level. The injustice done to the INA soldiers yet lies unheeded and it is a sheer shame on the part of the civilians, especially those of West Bengal, to have allowed things to precipitate so far that Netaji and his valiant army have almost sunk into oblivion. We need to once more draw the attention of our countrymen to their valiant deeds as they marched on to Delhi in their bid to unshackle the colonial bondage of their motherland. We must build up a movement, stir up such an enthusiasm that the world takes cognisance of it, that the sleeping mass of humanity in India awakes to the clarion call, 'Chalo Dilli'.