Saturday 30 March 2019

NETAJI AND DR. SYAMA PRASAD MOOKERJEE, BOTH AT THE RECEIVING END OF NEHRU ... A REBUTTAL TO A BIGOTED FRIEND



NETAJI AND DR. SYAMA PRASAD MOOKERJEE, BOTH AT THE RECEIVING END OF NEHRU ... A REBUTTAL TO A BIGOTED FRIEND

Ref : Nehru has betrayed our motherland at every step. Netaji and Syama Prasad Mookerjee are but two instances of it.

Dear friend,

Your acceptance or rejection of Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee's greatness and your willingness or otherwise to study his life and contributions to the nation is entirely your personal prerogative. Dr. Mookerjee's seminal contribution to the salvaging of the State of West Bengal from being sucked into Pakistan in those treacherous times prior to Partition is a recorded fact of history and no amount of denial of it will carry the case against it.

Your observation that you find it unnecessary to study Ram is, indeed, unfortunate for it betrays a lack of belonging to one's history and heritage, Indian that you are and a Hindu at that, but again, it depends, in point of principle, on one's cultural adherence and allegiance at that.

The conversation thread of the relevant post, now deleted with a stroke of your keypad button, began with a misconception on your side that I had placed Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee in sequential order of greatness immediately after Netaji. While I would be honoured to place all great men such as he be in line with our luminous leader, I, yet, must say that it was a misreading of the intent of the post on your part that thus triggered the conversation which, courtesy your deletion, now lies in the womb of the recycle bin, perhaps, if I am technically not flawed in my assertion. The post clearly says that it was Nehru's betrayal of both Netaji and Mookerjee that were but two instances of his greater betrayal of the motherland. But you chose to jump into the bandwagon with your stated aversion of Dr. Mookerjee in no uncertain terms. That is not quite being a perceptive reader, I must say.

Regarding your refusal to view the video I provided you, it may be construed as your bigotry or prejudice against a prominent son of the soil who did much for the very freedom you enjoy in India today as opposed to what you would have been subjected to were you in Pakistan as the case otherwise would have been had it not been for Dr. Mookerjee's timely intervention.

Syama Babu's subsequent intrepid entry into Jammu and Kashmir, devoid of the required permit that was obligatory those days, his arrest and incarceration thereof and his alleged murder in prison is an area for future researchers to engage in and unearth the truth that lies embedded in the sullied soil of our motherland.

I leave you with these thoughts for future rumination, my friend, hoping for a change of heart and an awakening into 'life and freedom', to mischievously quote Nehru by way of end note.

Yours in affable affection,

Sugata Bose

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