'CHALO DILLI' ... 5

The greatest loss to India has not been Swamiji's early demise but Netaji's early disappearance which had cataclysmic consequences for our motherland, for while the former had finished delivering his message to mankind, the latter had but begun the recovery of the motherland.

That Mahatma Gandhi had made a very big blunder in opposing and eliminating Subhas Chandra Bose from the Indian National Congress was proved to him in the fullness of time by the coarse betrayal of his protege, Jawaharlal Nehru, who hardly heeded his advice anymore nearing India's independence and took to the short route of the Prime Ministerial portfolio by making common cause with Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Lord Louis Mountbatten in partitioning India. Gandhiji, a hapless old man, now understood that Subhas would have been a better bet for his political succession than Jawahar for he had a nobler nature bound in love to the motherland and not to selfish interests as Nehru. However, it was too late and the Mahatma in Netaji's absence put paid to India's dreams by acceding to the demand for Partition. One wonders what America's fate would have been had Lincoln been replaced, hypothetically, that is, by Gandhi at the time of the Civil War or if Gandhi were to conduct the defence of Europe instead of Churchill and Stalin at the height of the Second World War?

Nonetheless, the weakness of the Mahatma inflicted the worst damage on India in history and one wonders if at all he was a Mahatma in the true sense of the term to have allowed such horrendous dismemberment of the motherland. Had Netaji been there at the head of his army, in an altered historical scenario, marching in to Delhi as he had aspired for, the whole political landscape in India would have changed and Partition would surely have been avoided. But, alas, that was not to be for the Congress leaders headed by Nehru and backed by Gandhi vociferously made counter-propaganda against the march of the liberating army of Netaji as being the advance of the invading army of imperial Japan and the masses were prevented from rising up in arms to support the Indian National Army at that critical point of time when a mass uprising would have evicted the British effortlessly with their hands tied to the Second World War.

But history has been enacted for the worse for India and how shameful it is to see educated men and women of our country buying into the Nehruvian narrative of Gandhian non-violence as being the principal cause of India's independence when in truth the Gandhi brigade had actually betrayed the nation into British hands for them to perpetrate the perfidy of Partition and offer a debasing Dominion Status on the basis of an ignominious Transfer of Power. Anyhow, that is the price one pays for saving one's blood while attempting to win independence and cowards deserve no more as a race than a dismembered motherland. It will require future valour and much more bloodshed to re-integrate India and then alone will the motherland's freedom be well-earned. Till then let cowards rule our country and let cowards be the mute subjects of such mischievous governance. Jai Hind!