KESHAB BHATTACHARJEE (Keshab Bhattacherjee), ORATOR INTREPID INSPIRED BY THE LIBERATOR OF INDIA
What a fiery speech indeed! An object lesson for the meek protesters and the meeker research scholars who dare not muster courage enough to thunder like this in the name of the one who has done the most for us and has been wronged the most by us as well. Kudos to Keshab Bhattacherjee for his intrepid speech, a la revolution of words, so to say, rolling like the torrent of a cataract and electrifying the audience.
Not one to mince words by any means and ever quoting facts and figures with legal efficiency, Keshab Bhattacherjee set alight Mahajati Sadan on this day, 18.8.2014, to render his heart's reverence to the hero of epic proportions whose idea it was in the first place to construct this national hall after his experience of one such in Italy. That day Tagore had laid open the hall for the nation while the brothers Bose stood witness to it. Tagore had made a speech that called for the strength in man to throw off all forms of weakness and stand free in the sunshine of life and light.
Many years have since passed and Netaji, the architect of our freedom, has been much betrayed and banished to oblivion. But men like Keshab Bhattacherjee yet arise to relight the torch that glows feeble but is never quite extinguished for it is the flame of freedom that ever burns in the heart of man, in the sincere aspirations of citizens and in every element of this universe that in bondage seeks liberation.
Netaji comes alive in Keshab Bhattacherjee's talk and the politicians who sought his doom are rendered due verbal justice by this articulate pleader who seems to be possessed by the fire of the leader and has set about to bring home the contentious issues to their rightful conclusions. What is striking about the manner of his speech is that Keshab Bhattacherjee has so much courage of conviction and speaks with a fiery force and with uncompromising intent unlike the others who merely mumble out measured statements that dare not dare the authorities who were complicit in the destruction of all that Netaji worked for. His is an unrelenting diatribe against all the conspiratorial forces and he has character enough to challenge the might of even the then President of India, Sri Pranab Mukherjee, for his inconsistencies regarding the disappearance of Netaji. Keshab Bhattacherjee does not spare a single political party, nor the Congress, nor the Communists nor even the BJP, holding all as culpable to the offence of misleading the nation by false affirmations about the hero's alleged death and by the act of suppression of vital documents to prevent the surfacing of truth.
The fiery orator also explodes the marriage myth of Netaji maliciously spread by near and far ones for securing advantages peculiar to the case and maligning the spotless character of the celibate politician to reduce him in stature and so diminish his hold on the imagination of his countrymen. Nor is the speaker reticent in criticism of the JMCI itself in so far as Justice Mukherjee's arbitrary conclusion based on his so-called sensible view is concerned that Netaji owing to old age (well over a hundred) was no more.
The impact of Keshab Bhattacherjee's speech is instant and electric and it remains to be seen if anyone else worth the salt will come along and emulate him for, indeed, he is worthy of such following. God bless you, Keshab Babu! May you keep in fine fettle so that you may serve the cause of Netaji who has hardly any friend beyond the likes of you who offer uncompromising allegiance and do not make capital out of him in terms of political advantage gained nor other selfish considerations to adhere to that make truth suffer at the scaffold of sacrilege and sin! May Netaji live in you even as you live in constant recollection of the ideal of your life at whose feet you have laid the fruit of your heart's ardour, the labour of your love and the offering of your soul nonpareil!
Written by Sugata Bose
P.S. Given below is the YouTube video link to Keshab Bhattacharjee's lecture at Mahajati Sadan that is the subject matter of this essay :
What a fiery speech indeed! An object lesson for the meek protesters and the meeker research scholars who dare not muster courage enough to thunder like this in the name of the one who has done the most for us and has been wronged the most by us as well. Kudos to Keshab Bhattacherjee for his intrepid speech, a la revolution of words, so to say, rolling like the torrent of a cataract and electrifying the audience.
Not one to mince words by any means and ever quoting facts and figures with legal efficiency, Keshab Bhattacherjee set alight Mahajati Sadan on this day, 18.8.2014, to render his heart's reverence to the hero of epic proportions whose idea it was in the first place to construct this national hall after his experience of one such in Italy. That day Tagore had laid open the hall for the nation while the brothers Bose stood witness to it. Tagore had made a speech that called for the strength in man to throw off all forms of weakness and stand free in the sunshine of life and light.
Many years have since passed and Netaji, the architect of our freedom, has been much betrayed and banished to oblivion. But men like Keshab Bhattacherjee yet arise to relight the torch that glows feeble but is never quite extinguished for it is the flame of freedom that ever burns in the heart of man, in the sincere aspirations of citizens and in every element of this universe that in bondage seeks liberation.
Netaji comes alive in Keshab Bhattacherjee's talk and the politicians who sought his doom are rendered due verbal justice by this articulate pleader who seems to be possessed by the fire of the leader and has set about to bring home the contentious issues to their rightful conclusions. What is striking about the manner of his speech is that Keshab Bhattacherjee has so much courage of conviction and speaks with a fiery force and with uncompromising intent unlike the others who merely mumble out measured statements that dare not dare the authorities who were complicit in the destruction of all that Netaji worked for. His is an unrelenting diatribe against all the conspiratorial forces and he has character enough to challenge the might of even the then President of India, Sri Pranab Mukherjee, for his inconsistencies regarding the disappearance of Netaji. Keshab Bhattacherjee does not spare a single political party, nor the Congress, nor the Communists nor even the BJP, holding all as culpable to the offence of misleading the nation by false affirmations about the hero's alleged death and by the act of suppression of vital documents to prevent the surfacing of truth.
The fiery orator also explodes the marriage myth of Netaji maliciously spread by near and far ones for securing advantages peculiar to the case and maligning the spotless character of the celibate politician to reduce him in stature and so diminish his hold on the imagination of his countrymen. Nor is the speaker reticent in criticism of the JMCI itself in so far as Justice Mukherjee's arbitrary conclusion based on his so-called sensible view is concerned that Netaji owing to old age (well over a hundred) was no more.
The impact of Keshab Bhattacherjee's speech is instant and electric and it remains to be seen if anyone else worth the salt will come along and emulate him for, indeed, he is worthy of such following. God bless you, Keshab Babu! May you keep in fine fettle so that you may serve the cause of Netaji who has hardly any friend beyond the likes of you who offer uncompromising allegiance and do not make capital out of him in terms of political advantage gained nor other selfish considerations to adhere to that make truth suffer at the scaffold of sacrilege and sin! May Netaji live in you even as you live in constant recollection of the ideal of your life at whose feet you have laid the fruit of your heart's ardour, the labour of your love and the offering of your soul nonpareil!
Written by Sugata Bose
P.S. Given below is the YouTube video link to Keshab Bhattacharjee's lecture at Mahajati Sadan that is the subject matter of this essay :
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