PATEL, PRASAD, PANT, PATTABHI, NEHRU --- THE CHOSEN ONES OF THE MAHATMA
Forget not that Patel was party to the Tripuri conspiracy against Bose along with Prasad, Pant and the rest of Gandhi's coterie, and the non-cooperation movement against the Congress President was orchestrated from behind the scenes by the Mahatma himself in a unique application of the method. And these have become our heroes. No wonder our politicians are so corrupt. But why blame them? They are merely following in the footsteps of their predecessors, only in a far worse way, following the laws of depreciation. And Netaji, Rash Behari, Bagha Jatin, Masterda, Bhagat Singh and countless others who were the true and uncompromising revolutionaries? Why? Their memory ought to be either buried in forgotten files or burnt to ashes to prevent future detection of past perfidy while Nehru, Gandhi and Patel cast their looming shadows from their towering presence in concrete.
Written by Sugata Bose
Forget not that Patel was party to the Tripuri conspiracy against Bose along with Prasad, Pant and the rest of Gandhi's coterie, and the non-cooperation movement against the Congress President was orchestrated from behind the scenes by the Mahatma himself in a unique application of the method. And these have become our heroes. No wonder our politicians are so corrupt. But why blame them? They are merely following in the footsteps of their predecessors, only in a far worse way, following the laws of depreciation. And Netaji, Rash Behari, Bagha Jatin, Masterda, Bhagat Singh and countless others who were the true and uncompromising revolutionaries? Why? Their memory ought to be either buried in forgotten files or burnt to ashes to prevent future detection of past perfidy while Nehru, Gandhi and Patel cast their looming shadows from their towering presence in concrete.
Written by Sugata Bose
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