IN RESPONSE TO CHANDRA KUMAR BOSE'S COMMENT ON MY POST, THE POST THAT RUNS THUS : 'ONCE MORE THE DEBATE IS RAGING --- DID NETAJI HAVE A WIFE AND CHILD OR WAS HE A BACHELOR THROUGHOUT? YOUR RESPONSE, PLEASE'.
Chandra Kumar Bose : How does it matter whether Netaji is married & has a child? You are free to discuss discuss is public life- but not his personal life!
Sugata Bose : There is such a thing called the personality profile of a human being. On any national or international document one is supposed to furnish one's identity details such as nationality, gender, age, date of birth, permanent address, marital status etc. In the absence of these one's profile remains incomplete and hence, the document itself is considered incomplete as well in terms of data-filling. When it comes to all human beings on earth, this seems to be the accepted procedure of both official documentation as well as historical representation. However, due to some strange aberration of logical principles, this does not seem to be the case when it comes to Netaji. There seems to be a peculiar and quite inexplicable irritation on the part of some to any counter-proposition to their unproven self-assertions about Netaji's marriage and progeny.
I find it a bit amusing that to openly affirm and harp on the fact that Netaji had a wife and daughter is alright in terms of public discussion on him despite the unproven status of such personalities in his reference but the countering of such claims is to be considered prohibited for it supposedly breaches personality privacy. This seems to be a privilege demanded by some which is untenable in terms of logical or ethical principles. The right to public discussion of public personalities is not exclusive and democratic discourse demands that there be continuous debate and deliberation on contentious issues of national significance till resolution is reached. The propagation of Netaji's so-called marriage and fatherhood are of momentous national consequence as they alter in public mind their image of the hero from being snow-chaste to being tarnished as one who secretly entered into conjugal alliance in defiance of all his publicly professed statements before and after the so-called event of 'marriage'. Hence, it is of utmost importance to the unfolding movement of our nation that truth be established once and for all whether Netaji was a bachelor or a married man, just as it is vital to determine what happened to him post-disappearance. It seems to to me that every possible avenue needs to be looked into to untangle the whole mass of mystery surrounding him and that is the way of intelligence operations as well.
Imagine someone suddenly after the demise of Swami Vivekananda had started spreading the story that he was secretly married and had a child somewhere. Would you not contest it by way of protecting the sanctity of his personality, his public image and for the establishment and preservation of truth? Would it then be regarded as violation of private space and a topic not for public discussion? Would it not be a public shame if you did not voice your considered feelings or raised logical questions as to the veracity of the stupendous affirmation? Would you not burst out in indignation at the calumny thus cast? Then why so different is it when the personality involved is Netaji, a person of recorded continence, self-affirmed, and of unimpeachable character, averred by friends and associates except some malicious propagators of untruth who had and have their own concerns to look to? Does your manhood fall short now in rightful indignation of this calumny?
And please do not divert discussion by sharply pulling me up for dragging Swamiji into it which evidently I am not doing here except to provide a radical illustration of the case to drive home the pertinent point. As one who has spent his entire adult life dedicated to the mission of Swamiji, I can vouch that my mentioning this imaginary case related to him is but an attempt to dramatically establish our right to public discourse on this contentious 'marriage-progeny' issue and, thus, safeguard the purity of the personage that Netaji was / is as rightful distant disciple of the venerable Swami. I say this only in anticipation of yet another diversion that may be attempted to derail the present discussion and, hence, request beforehand that such an attempt be not made as a post-truth measure and that rationality be met with rationality.
If the air-crash theory about Netaji's so-called death is a public affair to be contested so as to know what happened to his body and being post his disappearance on 18 Aug, 1945, then why is it that contesting this unproven case of marriage and progeny unworthy of public discussion when the attempt here is to remove the aspersions on his character and not to cast such on him?
Netaji's personality, purity, self-avowed adherence to the spiritual ideals of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda and equally self-avowed commitment to the cause of the motherland's freedom while remaining a committed single person without familial marital attachment is testimony to the fact that there has been hatched a huge conspiracy (a) to kill him in air on 18 Aug, 1945 and (b) to defame him through a strange legally untenable marital alliance and progeny thereof, both of which are claims unsubstantiated by documentary evidence. If, therefore, it is worthwhile to investigate the air-crash episode and keep it ever in vociferous public discussion often tantamount to uncivilised conversation, then why is discussion on the alleged marriage affair so profane when the same conditions hold for it, too? Could it not be that the two episodes of infamous non-occurrence are linked in a common bond of conspiracy hatched by interest groups and individuals so that India's political future would be doomed despite partitioned freedom?
A last word before I conclude and it is this : Only those who have ever attempted brahmacharya and succeeded at that and have the revolutionary fibre in them are capable on comprehending what a supernal soul Netaji was, a true hero and a worthy disciple of Swamiji. Others who are compromised to the petty claims of life and living can scarce understand the glory of this soul that visited us for a while to deliver us unto freedom. Let them while away their time with the littleness of life's offerings including the tales told about Netaji's marriage and death. As far as I am concerned, I fully and thoroughly reserve all my rights to publicly discuss every element of my leader's life and personality and I need not heed anyone's advice in this matter to direct my course of action.
Thanking you,
Yours ever as a fellow-countryman in absolute adherence to my lifelong vow of truth,
Sugata Bose, an unworthy servant of Swamiji-Netaji.
Chandra Kumar Bose : How does it matter whether Netaji is married & has a child? You are free to discuss discuss is public life- but not his personal life!
Sugata Bose : There is such a thing called the personality profile of a human being. On any national or international document one is supposed to furnish one's identity details such as nationality, gender, age, date of birth, permanent address, marital status etc. In the absence of these one's profile remains incomplete and hence, the document itself is considered incomplete as well in terms of data-filling. When it comes to all human beings on earth, this seems to be the accepted procedure of both official documentation as well as historical representation. However, due to some strange aberration of logical principles, this does not seem to be the case when it comes to Netaji. There seems to be a peculiar and quite inexplicable irritation on the part of some to any counter-proposition to their unproven self-assertions about Netaji's marriage and progeny.
I find it a bit amusing that to openly affirm and harp on the fact that Netaji had a wife and daughter is alright in terms of public discussion on him despite the unproven status of such personalities in his reference but the countering of such claims is to be considered prohibited for it supposedly breaches personality privacy. This seems to be a privilege demanded by some which is untenable in terms of logical or ethical principles. The right to public discussion of public personalities is not exclusive and democratic discourse demands that there be continuous debate and deliberation on contentious issues of national significance till resolution is reached. The propagation of Netaji's so-called marriage and fatherhood are of momentous national consequence as they alter in public mind their image of the hero from being snow-chaste to being tarnished as one who secretly entered into conjugal alliance in defiance of all his publicly professed statements before and after the so-called event of 'marriage'. Hence, it is of utmost importance to the unfolding movement of our nation that truth be established once and for all whether Netaji was a bachelor or a married man, just as it is vital to determine what happened to him post-disappearance. It seems to to me that every possible avenue needs to be looked into to untangle the whole mass of mystery surrounding him and that is the way of intelligence operations as well.
Imagine someone suddenly after the demise of Swami Vivekananda had started spreading the story that he was secretly married and had a child somewhere. Would you not contest it by way of protecting the sanctity of his personality, his public image and for the establishment and preservation of truth? Would it then be regarded as violation of private space and a topic not for public discussion? Would it not be a public shame if you did not voice your considered feelings or raised logical questions as to the veracity of the stupendous affirmation? Would you not burst out in indignation at the calumny thus cast? Then why so different is it when the personality involved is Netaji, a person of recorded continence, self-affirmed, and of unimpeachable character, averred by friends and associates except some malicious propagators of untruth who had and have their own concerns to look to? Does your manhood fall short now in rightful indignation of this calumny?
And please do not divert discussion by sharply pulling me up for dragging Swamiji into it which evidently I am not doing here except to provide a radical illustration of the case to drive home the pertinent point. As one who has spent his entire adult life dedicated to the mission of Swamiji, I can vouch that my mentioning this imaginary case related to him is but an attempt to dramatically establish our right to public discourse on this contentious 'marriage-progeny' issue and, thus, safeguard the purity of the personage that Netaji was / is as rightful distant disciple of the venerable Swami. I say this only in anticipation of yet another diversion that may be attempted to derail the present discussion and, hence, request beforehand that such an attempt be not made as a post-truth measure and that rationality be met with rationality.
If the air-crash theory about Netaji's so-called death is a public affair to be contested so as to know what happened to his body and being post his disappearance on 18 Aug, 1945, then why is it that contesting this unproven case of marriage and progeny unworthy of public discussion when the attempt here is to remove the aspersions on his character and not to cast such on him?
Netaji's personality, purity, self-avowed adherence to the spiritual ideals of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda and equally self-avowed commitment to the cause of the motherland's freedom while remaining a committed single person without familial marital attachment is testimony to the fact that there has been hatched a huge conspiracy (a) to kill him in air on 18 Aug, 1945 and (b) to defame him through a strange legally untenable marital alliance and progeny thereof, both of which are claims unsubstantiated by documentary evidence. If, therefore, it is worthwhile to investigate the air-crash episode and keep it ever in vociferous public discussion often tantamount to uncivilised conversation, then why is discussion on the alleged marriage affair so profane when the same conditions hold for it, too? Could it not be that the two episodes of infamous non-occurrence are linked in a common bond of conspiracy hatched by interest groups and individuals so that India's political future would be doomed despite partitioned freedom?
A last word before I conclude and it is this : Only those who have ever attempted brahmacharya and succeeded at that and have the revolutionary fibre in them are capable on comprehending what a supernal soul Netaji was, a true hero and a worthy disciple of Swamiji. Others who are compromised to the petty claims of life and living can scarce understand the glory of this soul that visited us for a while to deliver us unto freedom. Let them while away their time with the littleness of life's offerings including the tales told about Netaji's marriage and death. As far as I am concerned, I fully and thoroughly reserve all my rights to publicly discuss every element of my leader's life and personality and I need not heed anyone's advice in this matter to direct my course of action.
Thanking you,
Yours ever as a fellow-countryman in absolute adherence to my lifelong vow of truth,
Sugata Bose, an unworthy servant of Swamiji-Netaji.
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