IN RESPONSE TO ABHIJIT RAY'S COMMENT ON MY POST, THE POST THAT GOES THUS : 'ONCE MORE THE DEBATE IS RAGING --- DID NETAJI HAVE A WIFE AND CHILD OR WAS HE A BACHELOR THROUGHOUT? YOUR RESPONSE, PLEASE'.

IN RESPONSE TO ABHIJIT RAY'S COMMENT ON MY POST, THE POST THAT GOES THUS : 'ONCE MORE THE DEBATE IS RAGING --- DID NETAJI HAVE A WIFE AND CHILD OR WAS HE A BACHELOR THROUGHOUT? YOUR RESPONSE, PLEASE'.

Sugata Bose : Once more the debate is raging : Did Netaji have a wife and child or was he a bachelor throughout? Your response, please.

Abhijit Ray : In 2018, it is an useless and unnecessary question. When we are demanding to rewrite the true history of Indian Independence Movement, these types of silly questions are thrown at common people, probably to divert their minds from the main issue. I have every confidence , that, sensible persons will not pay any attention to such nonsense and continue to fight for the right cause. Jai Hind.

Sugata Bose : You talk of rewriting the true history of the Indian Independence Movement and, yet, you think resisting the proliferation of this unproven case of marriage and progeny a 'useless and unnecessary' exercise, a 'silly question' at that, and a 'nonsensical' proposition to which 'sensible persons' ought not to 'pay any attention'. Strange is your fidelity to historical truth!

By the way, what is your take on this unproven issue? And how is it that the so-called marriage is not important to the historical narrative? Netaji has never admitted marriage and progeny in any of his lectures or writings barring the sole letter displayed as 'his' in the Netaji Research Bureau. Many of his Party comrades and comrades-in-arms in the INA have not subscribed to this narrative of the so-called marriage or love alliance, as and how it may stand in the eyes of the law. I admit many others do accept the 'marriage-daughter' narrative and, hence, it is pertinent to the discussion whether Netaji had actually married / entered into love-alliance or not. After all, it concerns his character and profile most critically. We are to go by evidence and not by hearsay or familial assertion in this matter.

I have in no way thrown the historical discussion on the freedom movement out of gear but have rather brought the searchlight onto a most contentious issue of our freedom struggle in bringing this unresolved element into public focus once again. If anyone is trying to divert the discussion, it, surely, is not me. I am confident that the people of my motherland have character enough to ponder on the logical imperatives pertinent to the discussion and have the ability to pick the grain from the chaff. I have reason to believe that they have the capacity to distinguish between fact and fiction and arrive at the truth. Lastly, I respect the common man's intelligence so as not to insult their integrity in insinuating that they may be 'diverted from the main issue' in reading my post. It is not only improper to castigate them thus but uncivil to cast aspersions on my intent in writing this post.

My whole life stands testimony to the fact that behind my literary propagation of my diverse thoughts on spirituality, nationalism and sociological issues there has never been any ulterior motivation that has prompted me to say or write anything partisan or coloured by mischievous self-interest. I have never made capital in any way from my writings on social media, am totally apolitical and unaffiliated to any interest group or pressure group other than the impulsion of my conscience and conscientiousness. It is, thus, strange that you should so adversely react to my innocuous but pertinent post which in your estimation you have relegated it to being a 'silly, useless and unnecessary question' of 'nonsensical' intent and content. I am not sure that you will get too many sympathisers for your diatribe at me, for umpteen number of people hold the opposite view to yours as you, perhaps, very well know.

And, for your kind information, may I apprise you in advance that my pen shall keep on posing these uncomfortable, nay, unpalatable propositions in the future as well, with increased vigour and logical thrust to boot, for these are issues that need resolving like the disappearance issue and are central to the rewriting of our true history of the freedom movement, much perverted by political and familial interest.

Only in raising the right questions do the right answers come from the heart of Nature which every man of science knows, and the same principle holds true in the realm of historical research as well. Thus, through doubt and discussion, dialogue and discourse, data delivery and deliberation thereof shall be rewritten the true history of the freedom movement. Vande Mataram!

Thanking you,
Ever yours in truth and in seeking the truth despite obstructions posed and opposition offered,
Sugata Bose.