NETAJI AND HIS FANATICAL FOLLOWING ... 1
Netaji would better be rid of the fanatics who seem to have appropriated him, so that he may live in the sunshine of fair appraisal and criticism. Right now, the Prince of Patriots is living in the exile of unsavoury adulation of his person and hatred directed towards his political colleagues, opponents and even mentors in the form of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi. This sort of an unseemly attitude not only leads to an unfair assessment of history but is productive as well of a negative end in so far as establishing the historical truth about the freedom struggle is concerned.
Netaji, who was a person of supreme sanity and high idealism, would fain accede to such fanatical following devoid of substance, rationality and fundamental civility that they ought to bear towards his towering compatriots of the national struggle for freedom. It is regrettable that such a large-hearted person should have such a mean following that can stoop to such abysmal levels in levelling grossly exagerrated and often unsubstantiated charges against such seminal figures of the freedom struggle as Pandit Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi.
It seems that hatred unites a fanatical following better than absorbing, assimilating and living by the principles of pure patriotism and essential humanity espoused by the great liberator of our colonised and conquered motherland. A change in this dubious 'devotion' is the need of the hour and the sooner right-thinking men and women take to living the principles that were once lived by the patriot, the better for our sinking polity.
I leave you to ruminate on this and respond adequately for the enlivening and furtherance of the prospective debate.
Vande Mataram !
Written by Sugata Bose
Netaji would better be rid of the fanatics who seem to have appropriated him, so that he may live in the sunshine of fair appraisal and criticism. Right now, the Prince of Patriots is living in the exile of unsavoury adulation of his person and hatred directed towards his political colleagues, opponents and even mentors in the form of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi. This sort of an unseemly attitude not only leads to an unfair assessment of history but is productive as well of a negative end in so far as establishing the historical truth about the freedom struggle is concerned.
Netaji, who was a person of supreme sanity and high idealism, would fain accede to such fanatical following devoid of substance, rationality and fundamental civility that they ought to bear towards his towering compatriots of the national struggle for freedom. It is regrettable that such a large-hearted person should have such a mean following that can stoop to such abysmal levels in levelling grossly exagerrated and often unsubstantiated charges against such seminal figures of the freedom struggle as Pandit Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi.
It seems that hatred unites a fanatical following better than absorbing, assimilating and living by the principles of pure patriotism and essential humanity espoused by the great liberator of our colonised and conquered motherland. A change in this dubious 'devotion' is the need of the hour and the sooner right-thinking men and women take to living the principles that were once lived by the patriot, the better for our sinking polity.
I leave you to ruminate on this and respond adequately for the enlivening and furtherance of the prospective debate.
Vande Mataram !
Written by Sugata Bose
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