Einstein is a Nobel Laureate. Does it, therefore, follow that whosoever has to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics must be an Einstein? In quite the reverse order, although people like Rajiv Gandhi and company have been wrongly awarded the Bharat Ratna which has eroded its prestige ans status, yet, honouring Rash Behari Bose would not necessarily imply his denigration.
I can see your point and some other perspectives as well where people are positing the idea that Bose belongs to a patriotic realm of a different dimension altogether and, as such, it would be an insult to his dignity and to the dignity of like revolutionaries, who have been neglected by the Government of India thus far, to give them the highest civilian honour of the nation in much the same way as the Government thinks it improper to honour Mahatma Gandhi thus. However, while Gandhiji is enjoying paternal status in our country and is being hailed officially as the liberator of dependent India from colonial shackles, Rash Behari Bose and his compatriots like Bagha Jatin are being systematically allowed to sink into historic oblivion by a vicious propagation of half-truths, untruths and plain no mention at all of their seminal achievements in revolutionary action that led to freedom.
It is here that the awarding of the Bharat Ratna will bring this forgotten chapter of India's freedom movement into the limelight and help refocus national attention on the glorious saga of armed revolution in the freedom struggle. I, therefore, urge all of you to join me in this crusade whereby the larger goal of setting right the national narrative may be achieved through the conferring of this highest honour to a personality who looms over the entire freedom struggle of our country during the first half of the twentieth century. This is a strategic move to initiate a greater cause, the resurrection of the heroes of the armed struggle for independence during the entire 90 year phase of the freedom movement dating 1857-1947.
With regards to you all,
I remain yours in the motherland,
Sugata Bose.
I can see your point and some other perspectives as well where people are positing the idea that Bose belongs to a patriotic realm of a different dimension altogether and, as such, it would be an insult to his dignity and to the dignity of like revolutionaries, who have been neglected by the Government of India thus far, to give them the highest civilian honour of the nation in much the same way as the Government thinks it improper to honour Mahatma Gandhi thus. However, while Gandhiji is enjoying paternal status in our country and is being hailed officially as the liberator of dependent India from colonial shackles, Rash Behari Bose and his compatriots like Bagha Jatin are being systematically allowed to sink into historic oblivion by a vicious propagation of half-truths, untruths and plain no mention at all of their seminal achievements in revolutionary action that led to freedom.
It is here that the awarding of the Bharat Ratna will bring this forgotten chapter of India's freedom movement into the limelight and help refocus national attention on the glorious saga of armed revolution in the freedom struggle. I, therefore, urge all of you to join me in this crusade whereby the larger goal of setting right the national narrative may be achieved through the conferring of this highest honour to a personality who looms over the entire freedom struggle of our country during the first half of the twentieth century. This is a strategic move to initiate a greater cause, the resurrection of the heroes of the armed struggle for independence during the entire 90 year phase of the freedom movement dating 1857-1947.
With regards to you all,
I remain yours in the motherland,
Sugata Bose.
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