AN OPEN LETTER TO MY COUNTRYMEN
Dear sisters and brothers,
It is a shame that we, Indians, remain oblivious of most of our revolutionary heroes who laid down their lives so that we would enjoy freedom one day.Their selfless sacrifice ought to inspire us unto selfless service ourselves for the motherland but instead of that we continue to remain in abject ignorance of their very existence ever, not to mention their life and deeds for our nation.
Casual blaming of the government and Pandit Nehru and company will not absolve us of our sins in this absence of knowledge and forgetfulness as the case may be. It is for us to do personal research and learn about them and not to be spoon-fed by the government in this exercise. We all know that governmental neglect has been largely responsible for suppression of fact about the revolutionaries but then, can a country have a good government when the average mass of its citizens are so apathetic about all such information that are already there in the public domain? Let us not blame the government anymore for that will not help things in any way but let us unite to gather knowledge about these seminal beings of stupendous courage, these burning masses of men who lit the fire of revolution over their own bodies and unshackled us from colonial consequence.
Come, my friends, shed this lethargy, this despicable apathy and join hands with me to unearth data about these daredevils who shook the citadels of the British Empire and made its sun set after all.
But the sequel to it all is this that by blaming the Congress Government continuously for not propagating the true history of India's freedom struggle, we have tried to absolve ourselves of all responsibility to the memory of the martyrs and have, thus, seen to it that the sun sets on the epic empire of the revolutionaries as well. This must no more be and we must redress the sins of the past and atone for them by the systematic study of the revolutionaries from now on. I shall only be too happy to accompany you in this voyage of self-discovery in our patriots and I hereby send you an advance invitation to join me in this journey.
Thanking you in the name of the motherland, truncated and bleeding still,
I remain yours in the revolutionaries,
Sugata Bose
Dear sisters and brothers,
It is a shame that we, Indians, remain oblivious of most of our revolutionary heroes who laid down their lives so that we would enjoy freedom one day.Their selfless sacrifice ought to inspire us unto selfless service ourselves for the motherland but instead of that we continue to remain in abject ignorance of their very existence ever, not to mention their life and deeds for our nation.
Casual blaming of the government and Pandit Nehru and company will not absolve us of our sins in this absence of knowledge and forgetfulness as the case may be. It is for us to do personal research and learn about them and not to be spoon-fed by the government in this exercise. We all know that governmental neglect has been largely responsible for suppression of fact about the revolutionaries but then, can a country have a good government when the average mass of its citizens are so apathetic about all such information that are already there in the public domain? Let us not blame the government anymore for that will not help things in any way but let us unite to gather knowledge about these seminal beings of stupendous courage, these burning masses of men who lit the fire of revolution over their own bodies and unshackled us from colonial consequence.
Come, my friends, shed this lethargy, this despicable apathy and join hands with me to unearth data about these daredevils who shook the citadels of the British Empire and made its sun set after all.
But the sequel to it all is this that by blaming the Congress Government continuously for not propagating the true history of India's freedom struggle, we have tried to absolve ourselves of all responsibility to the memory of the martyrs and have, thus, seen to it that the sun sets on the epic empire of the revolutionaries as well. This must no more be and we must redress the sins of the past and atone for them by the systematic study of the revolutionaries from now on. I shall only be too happy to accompany you in this voyage of self-discovery in our patriots and I hereby send you an advance invitation to join me in this journey.
Thanking you in the name of the motherland, truncated and bleeding still,
I remain yours in the revolutionaries,
Sugata Bose
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