The race that produced the Upanishads is now mired in superstition and education is failing to remove it. Else, how could so many entertain such fantastic hopes of Netaji's return at 121 and more?
I also am an ardent devotee of Netaji but choose not to lose my rational bearings in such unreasonable expectations. I can scarce believe that he is alive today at the ripe old age of 121, much less expect him to be fit enough to return and lead a revolution in India and the world as is the contention of so many I so often encounter. It is a puerile proposition and betrays a certain lack of realism in the mental make up of a section of ardent devotees who throw caution to the winds in clinging to fanciful ideas, myths that are spread by parties having vested interests. The historical Netaji is thus buried conveniently by his fans under the weight of their imagination and his glorious deeds pale out before his supposed exploits post his disappearance when he seemingly godlike traverses the planet to liberate peoples from bondage and suffering. One feels sad to see that the historical Netaji of seminal significance in world politics is thus being eclipsed in the minds of so many by the narrative of a superman who is supposedly Netaji and whose political exploits are magical, mythical and myriad. What shall poor me say by way of reaction than to reiterate the oft-quoted words, 'enough unto the day is the evil thereof'?
I rest my case here hoping not that there will be any improvement in people's mentality despite the continuous advances of science and rational thinking, for men are men and will continue to be men with all their ills and all their hopes founded in irrational associations of the deluded mind.
Written by Sugata Bose
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