I request researchers and activists to rationally present facts about Netaji post 18 August, 1945 in an orderly manner for easy understanding of the contentious issues regarding his disappearance and reappearance as claimed in many quarters. Right now not all are well-versed with the facts despite the availability of some books and videos related to the issue. Mere clamour and emotion effusion cannot clear confusion. Rather they tend to increase it. Any type of claim will not go as evidence. Only rationally tenable and logically coherent arguments will hold ground along with documentary evidence and evidence provided by first-hand witnesses to events and personalities related to this issue.
It has been my effort to rationalise the discourse on Netaji post his mysterious disappearance and I have solicited support from researchers in this regard but with not much response. I keep on catching glimpses of the entire saga through my interactions with knowledgeable people in this regard but cannot quite get them to articulate enough in comprehensive detail or in adequate scientific terms beyond their habitual reference to files they have accessed but cannot divulge the details of yet for there are still so many files that remain classified in governmental custody which when released will allow the emergence of a complete picture of the entire saga of Netaji's disappearance. This makes the confusion worse confounded for we are left drifting in the obscure space of speculation with no concrete evidence at our disposal whereby we may clarify our doubts and come to a mature understanding of things. The argument that each one of us must access files like researchers supposedly have done is a proposition puerile for that is quite impossible for men of limited talent and training to successfully attempt, let alone accomplish.
Another thing that is noticeable is that many are simply content to hold on to their fanciful ideas about Netaji post disappearance and do not at all feel the compulsion to probe further to find out whether their assumptions are at all justified in terms of the reality that is. Such a superficial attitude gets daily reinforced in the ordinary mind by constant propagation of myths by interested parties to further their commercial interests and even personal interests in some cases. The call of the hour is, thus, a rational discourse in open forum conducted by unbiased anchors where researchers will bring their findings and present before the polity. If they are so certain that certain theories are valid and they have corroborative evidence to support their claims, then they ought to come to the fore and face a debating panel where things will be resolved once and for all. Though, not quite, for these days anchors with preset agendas hold to ransom the panel as per the directives of their paymasters. But a series of talks and debates held on a continuous basis will surely help the discourse that right now seems to be stuck in the mire of silly claims and sillier supportive reasoning.
Let not anyone feel diffident to hold discourse thus today for social media affords a lot of channels for such presentation, but may the presentations be not superficial exercises in futility with insufficient argument ever claiming itself to be conclusive evidence on the whereabouts and identity of Netaji post 18 August, 1945.
Written by Sugata Bose
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