Monday 30 September 2019

LET HISTORY BE RETOLD ... 1



LET HISTORY BE RETOLD ... 1

Constant campaign against the false assertion that non-violence won us independence is changing the narrative of the freedom struggle gradually and I must thank all those who are pertinently contributing to the cause yet to set the seal on the correct chronicling of the historical development leading to India's freedom.

The Goebbels' lies in the name of Gandhian disproportionately high contribution to India's liberation from colonial conquest must be countered not with further euphemisms but with undiluted affirmations about the blood-lettered narrative of the real revolutionaries who saw their dreams thwarted and shattered in the motherland's eventual attainment of the partitioned dominion status by these collaborators of the colonists masquerading as freedom fighters under the despotic control of the so-called Mahatma of dubious philosophical, ethical and political integrity.

Gandhian passive resistance is simply ineffectual in a brutal world governed by realpolitik. To attempt to overcome an enemy, equipped with a modern army that helped it keep a third of the world in colonial subjugation, with passive non-violent means of resistance such as non-compliance with unjust laws and endurance of suffering in one's bid to melt the heart of the offender and so convert him to the higher state of spiritual insight where justice abounds, was to live in a fool's paradise, to state it plainly. This was not the revolution required then to achieve freedom but was a compromise with the colonists which favoured the adversary alone to the detriment of the national cause beyond hope of future redemption, as the ensuing events of the next three decades would testify to. This was collaboration -- collaboration with the British, wittingly or unwittingly, whichever way the facts would tend to reveal. And this must be exposed today as the nation awakes.

Written by Sugata Bose

Sunday 29 September 2019

HE FOOLED THE JOHN BULLS EVER



HE FOOLED THE JOHN BULLS EVER

A revolutionary died just before the end of the Second World War. Otherwise, along with Netaji, he would also have been listed as a War Criminal of international significance. But he had ever eluded arrest at the hands of the British despite multiple seditious activities bordering often on the verge of destabilising the British Empire. Yet, he was smarter than the smartest John Bulls hot on his trail and never courted His Majesty's hospitality. And he did, indeed, with the help of his younger dynamic colleague, bring about the downfall of the British Empire.

I am sure you know by now who I am talking of. His wife's contribution to preserving his person must not be forgotten, too. Her memory must remain ever etched in our minds along with her two children, one of whom died in the concluding phase of the war that decimated Japan and the other who lived on with the last lingering hopes of seeing her father honoured in the motherland at whose altar of freedom he had sacrificed his all, but, alas, who would never see her dreams fulfil due to the perfidious character of us Indians and our vaunted leadership with its tortuous tale of 'truth and non-violence' practised in quite the reverse way.

Is it not time to honour the memory of this redoubtable revolutionary? Must we allow our indifference to help bury the very vestiges that are still left of our revolutionary movement for freedom? If so, then we are, indeed, an intermediary species between the biped and the quadruped, as Swami Vivekananda had sarcastically called the then debilitated mass of educated Indians, begging their dole at the feet of the dastardly British and considering themselves, in imitation of the West, much civilised in the norms of modernity.

Now consider what you yourself will do by way of remembrance of this heroic revolutionary who rocked the British at home and then spiced the curries up in distant Japan to lock horns with the demon yet again and drive it out of the motherland. He spanned the whole of the first half of the twentieth century and twice attempted to overthrow the British in the two world wars, then passed into oblivion. Shall we allow his memory to be lost for good, his daring deeds to be forgotten such that posterity may ask in its ignorance, who, after all, was this Rash Behari Bose?

Written by Sugata Bose

REMEMBER OCTOBER 2 IS LEELA ROY'S BIRTHDAY AS WELL -- SOME FAMILIAL REMINISCENCES



REMEMBER OCTOBER 2 IS LEELA ROY'S BIRTHDAY AS WELL -- SOME FAMILIAL REMINISCENCES

My grandmother, Late Smt. Nirupama Bose, knew Leela Roy well. At the time of the Partition of India, on the 14th of August, when our family was leaving Dhaka for Kolkata, Leela Roy exhorted my grandmother not to leave East Pakistan but to stay on there. She said, ''Nirupama, jabe na, jabe na. Tomra ekhanei thakbe.'' [''Nirupama, you will not go away. You all will stay here itself.''] However, our family, bound for the airport and just about to depart, came over to Kolkata that very day and put up at our house in Ballygunge which had already been built in 1939 by my grandfather, Late Sunil Kumar Bose.

My grandmother was also close to Bina Das (Bhaumik after marriage to Jyotish Bhaumik), daughter of Beni Madhav Das, Subhas Chandra Bose's Headmaster at Ravenshaw Collegiate School, Cuttack, and herself a revolutionary. Bina Das was her junior in school and younger by eight years. After my grandfather's death in 1967, when I was six years old, my grandmother, now freed of her constant occupation with her paralysed (due to cerebral stroke suffered) husband whom she served night and day for eight long years without any nursing help from anybody else in the form of ayah or nurse, used to sometimes say, '' Jai, ektu Binar bari ghurey ashi.'' [''Let me visit Bina at her house.''] Bina (Das) Bhaumik used to stay on Fern Road, Ballygunge, which was very close to our house. I never even asked my grandmother once to take me there with her and missed the golden opportunity of seeing the great revolutionary.

Many more stories of personal and familial interest but related to the revolutionaries keep streaming in but they may not be of much concern to anybody else. So, I desist here.

Written by Sugata Bose

Photo : top -- Leela (Nag) Roy ; bottom -- Bina (Das) Bhaumik

Saturday 28 September 2019

BUT FOR HIM




BUT FOR HIM

India lost the Sino-India War of 1962 due to lack of military preparedness. This was the Gandhian legacy of non-violent statecraft inherited and perpetuated by Nehru, the indecisive Prime Minister of India then. Had the nation welcomed Netaji to the Mahatma instead at the right time (1939), its fate in the Sino-India War would have been different.

The development of a modern strong army capable of defending India's sovereignty and freedom was Netaji's prime consideration post-independence and to that end he had exhorted the Indian National Army and inspired them in their fight for freedom. Had Gandhi understood the dynamics of realpolitik and cooperated with Bose from the Haripura days, Nehru could not have led us to the terrible debacle of 1962. India, with Bose's vision guiding the Independence movement, would have driven the British off and attained to an undivided freedom much earlier than 1947. Thereafter, she would have emerged as the Asian superpower ahead of China and the Sino-Indian conflict of 1962 would have never been. The Kashmir problem would not have been, too, for Pakistan would never have been, thus, born.

Today's hub of global terrorism has been created out of that dastardly deed of the British, the Partition of India. The world pays for it dearly. Gandhi's debilitating unrealistic politics aided by Jinnah's cunning use of Muslim fundamentalist psychology and the overall divisive strategy engendered, fostered and overseen by British geopolitical self-interest gave birth to perfidious Pakistan.

Had Netaji not been forced by the 'Mahatma' to leave Indian shores to seek foreign help for freedom, the history of the world would have been radically different. I request all to read the text of the Presidential address at the Haripura Congress of 1938 and come to their own conclusions.

Jai Hind !

Written by Sugata Bose

Friday 27 September 2019

THE NETAJI DISAPPEARANCE MYSTERY ... 5



THE NETAJI DISAPPEARANCE MYSTERY ... 5
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HOW TRUE ARE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FAIZABAD ANGLE TO THE MONK AS SUCH?

Can anyone who believes in Netaji having lived incognito as Gumnami Baba also believe that Netaji had married and had a daughter when Baba had categorically denied such a happening? You must pick your boat. You cannot possibly sail with feet planted in both boats, as the Bengali adage goes. To believe in both the theories is to show scant respect to either and does not become an activist of integrity. Either accept the marriage theory and reject Gumnami Baba or accept Gumnami Baba and reject the marriage theory. Be clean in your dealings and have the courage of conviction to stand by your rational stance.

Gumnami Baba had not only categorically rejected the marriage--daughter episode as a concoction of the powers that be to suit political ends but had also rejected the theory that Sisir had driven him to Gomoh. The ardent adherents of Gumnami Baba, therefore, do not subscribe to either the marriage theory or the Great Escape narrative. Theirs is a different account of the escape altogether and they hold Netaji as a lifelong continent person who eventually became a dynamic monk while remaining incognito to prevent the Anglo-American powers from trying him as a war criminal of WW II. So, you see there are opportunists who are picking and choosing from different theories about Netaji's disappearance and making up their own synthetic stories to suit interested parties and themselves run their businesses to boot. Are they doing the cause of solving the enduring mystery of Netaji's disappearance any good? Certainly not. They are doing business well.

Where are we headed then? Nowhere, so far as the solving of the mystery goes but we are headed towards increasing commercial prospects with each and every revelation on his fate post 18 August, 1945.

Written by Sugata Bose

THE NETAJI DISAPPEARANCE MYSTERY ... 6

THE NETAJI DISAPPEARANCE MYSTERY ... 6
Indo-French historian J.B.P. More has affirmed in the documentary of 'Discovery Science' that Netaji had stayed overnight at the house of Leon Prouchandy (More's grandfather) in Saigon on 17 August, 1945 and thereafter spent some more time on 18 August as well. More's mother has herself testified to More on this count but could not say as to where Netaji had gone from their house on the 18th and as to his whereabouts thereafter.
Mr. More has raised a pertinent point here. If Netaji was still there for a part of 18 August at his grandfather's house in Saigon, how could he have possibly boarded the aeroplane at distant Taihoku that very afternoon and crash-landed to death? Moreover, how could Netaji have spent the previous night (17 August) at Tourane en route to Taihoku when he was expressly, in the words of eye-witness Mrs. More, at her father's (Leon Prouchandy's) house in Saigon that night?
These are discrepancies in the story, perhaps, and either party must be wrong. The protagonists of the Air-crash Theory will in all probability say that Mrs. More has made a mistake about the date on which she claims Netaji had stayed overnight at her father's residence. It must have been 16 August and not the 17th when, as per the official narrative, Netaji had boarded the Tourane-bound plane from Saigon at 5.15 p.m. and spent the night at Tourane itself before leaving for Taihoku on the morning of the 18th. If this natural lapse of memory had occurred in Mrs. More's eye-witness account, then the official dates fall into place and Netaji could very well then have spent the 16th night at Prouchandy's residence at Saigon, boarded the plane on the 17th for Tourane, spent the night there at Tourane, boarded the plane for Saigon on the 18th, reached there at 2 p.m. and crashed at 2.30 p.m. after lunch.
But did Mrs.More make such a casual mistake about an event of such momentous historical significance? Was it not also the greatest day in her family's life to have hosted Netaji overnight? Are not women very particular about endearing familial recollections? Did she make a mistake or was she right in her recollection after all which would lend an altogether different twist to the whole disappearance affair?
Given below is the YouTube link to the aforesaid documentary :
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo : courtesy, Wikipedia

MESSAGES GALORE ... 1

1. You have to avoid the trappings of both theism and atheism to be able to apprehend the highest philosophical content of the Vedas.

2. History is not cold rationality. It is writ in letters of blood.

3. The seed of renunciation lies in the realisation of the impermanence of life.

4. Life is an obstacle race where we must participate and overcome the obstacles to the finish.

5. Start using Japanese products instead of Chinese. Help the cause of Indo-Jap friendship as Netaji and Rash Behari Bose had envisaged.

6. One good way of practising spirituality is to love one's motherland n to dedicate one's life's labour to its upkeep n betterment.

7. Who is a mason of mistakes?
রঙের মিস্ত্রী কে?
Mystery of mistakes?
Victim - who?

8. The Second World War was the vengeance of God on England. England was given the taste of what it means to lose one's own freedom when one has taken away by force, treachery and deceit the freedom of others. Hitler was God's vengeance on the rapacious colonists. He was no more a devil than Churchill was and the Nazis in a short span of twelve years merely reenacted the destructive drama of the Anglo-Saxon colonists that the latter had played out in a much more virulent form over centuries that had decimated civilisations and cultures and reduced nations to ruin in the single aim of upholding British narrow nationalistic interests. And now the war was on them as God's vengeance, as history's irrevocable death-deal on a nation for death dealt on the innocents of other nations. The European powers, co-sharers in the spoils of the colonised world, now rained weapons on each other in the most catastrophic war of all time. Germany, recovering from the reverses of the First World War and smarting under the ignominy of the Treaty of Versailles, was the vengeance of history, the resolution of the historical forces that had conspired to reduce the European colonies to ruins. From here the rise of Hitler and his National Socialists was but an inevitable end that would settle the balance of forces in an emerging world order where suppressed humanity would breathe freer and their oppressors in mutual annihilation would be cut down to their proper size.

9. Humanity is one but cultures may be many. As such, we must have global perspectives rather than narrow nationalistic ones.

10.
The model for all womanhood, the light in which man is to view woman, the hope and succour of all humanity.

11. একজন বিদেশিনী ভারতবর্ষকে সর্বান্তঃকরণে গ্রহণ করতে পারলেন আর আমরা ভারত সন্তানসন্ততি তা পারব না ?

12. জাতির মেরুদণ্ড জনসাধারণ | এই জনগনেশের সেবাই ধর্ম |

13. Be kind to people. There is no virtue in targeted violence. No ideology must support violence for whatsoever 'exalted' cause.

14. It is drizzling and the crows are out. Man has fashioned Nature, birds and beasts have not.

15.
HOMECOMING TO MOTHER

If our children take to studying harder and with a curious mind to know things as Einstein had suggested, they will have paid a fitting tribute to their illustrious predecessor, Nobel laureate Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee.

16. Will the integration of Jammu and Kashmir post-abrogation of Article 370 facilitate the repatriation of Kashmiri Pandits?

17. Extreme poverty is incompatible with religious high talk. Let humanity reveal itself in making room for bread. Then talk religion.

18. O Lord, how can You suffer such indignity on earth in so many bodies which no Law of Karma can enough explain? Whither justice? Whither mercy for Thyself in so many forms?

15. এ কি বেঁচে থাকা, এই অমানুষিক দারিদ্রে ? এত বৈভব একদিকে আর অপরদিকে রক্তক্ষরণ ? এই কি জীবন ?

16. When the institution becomes too powerful, it decays. Then individuals must stand apart and let go of it.

17. It is easy to speak high philosophy from a position of economic strength but difficult to activate its humanistic principles in the service of suffering humanity.

18. It is not true that people only talk about poverty but do not lend a helping hand. Millions help but billions are poor.

19. আজ ভাইফোঁটা | যাঁরা দাদা মানলেন, ভাই মানলেন, তাঁদের সকলকে হৃদয়ের শ্রেষ্ঠ সম্পদে অভিষিক্ত করলাম |

20. এই মুহূর্তটিই সবটুকু | সমস্তকাল এই ক্ষণেরই আন্দোলন | অতীত, ভবিষ্যৎ বিধৃত এই বর্তমানে |

21. ইহকাল মানেন আর পরকাল মানেন না ? সবই কি খাপছাড়া শৃঙ্খলাবিহীন হঠাৎসংঘটন ? গভীরে ভাবুন |

22. The two geniuses I adore are Shakespeare and Mozart.

23. The syllabus is at the centre of education, the child is in the periphery. This'll only lead to erosion of intellectual standards.

24. সুবিধা পাওয়ার জন্য সম্পর্ক স্থাপন ও রক্ষা চিত্তের চূড়ান্ত দারিদ্রের পরিচায়ক | এ হেন মানসিকতা ব্যাপ্ত হলেও বাঞ্ছনীয় নয় |

25. আর যাই হোক, অযথা কাউকে কষ্ট দেবেন না |

26. Spirituality is the progressive deepening of the perception of the Self in reflected terms till the Real reveals.

27. Art dominates the Hindu mind and, hence, the emphasis on the idol of the God he worships. Science dictates this need, too.

28. যে ডালে বসে আছি, সে ডালটি কাটলে কি হবে ? গোড়া কাটলে সব গেল |

29. Gandhi may have made our independence struggle a mass movement but did he not emasculate it altogether with his passive policy?

30. Did Gandhi ever chant the freedom slogan 'Vande Mataram' ?

31. The cruellest regime in the history of the world has been that of the British in India despite their pious pretensions.

32. The real followers of Vivekananda were the revolutionaries of Bengal.
...Hemchandra Ghosh

33. The revolutionaries had a problem. Their armed action often were sporadic and failed to reach the nerve-centre of the British Raj.

34. WHEN PONDER I IN PENSIVE MOOD

The revolutionaries had a problem. Their armed action often were sporadic and failed to reach the nerve-centre of the British Raj. It was Netaji who gave fulfilment to the evolving armed struggle for freedom and tied up the loose ends of the movement to free the motherland at last.

Written by Sugata Bose

35. The martyrs bled so that the traitors would enjoy the fruits of freedom.

36. SATYAMEVA JAYATE !

26,000 INA soldiers died in the war of freedom, 5 million Bengalees were starved to death, a million died in the Partition riots, so many were martyred at the scaffold for armed action and the movement for freedom was non-violent ! Satyameva jayatey !

Written by Sugata Bose

37. Too many wicked men and women are at the helm of affairs. 'Swachchh Bharat' ought first to clean up the system of such evil souls.

38. Whither humanity when men are lynched? Is this our country's tradition? Shame on us !

39. It is not Pakistan-administered Kashmir but Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Kashmir, the whole of it, is legitimately India's.

40. British diplomacy is essentially about securing economic gain. How right was Napoleon in calling Britain 'a nation of shopkeepers'!

41. A fresh affirmation of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda is the call of the hour in unpretentious honest observance of their ideals.

42. He who casts aspersions on Mother Teresa cannot revere Sister Nivedita as well.

43. Tagore and Netaji both called Gandhiji Mahatma. Did they make a mistake in all their experiential wisdom?

44. সেবাবুদ্ধি ব্যতীত জনস্বার্থে কাজ করা যায় না | আর নিঃস্বার্থপরতাই সেবাবুদ্ধির ভিত্তিভূমি |

45. অশালীন মন্তব্য করতে করতে মানুষ বাকসংযম হারিয়ে ফেলেন | তখন বুদ্ধিবিভ্রম ঘটে | তার পরই বুদ্ধিনাশ ও অসংলগ্ন চিন্তার অবিশ্রাম বহিঃপ্রকাশ |

রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

46. Sister Nivedita was intellectually more enlightened than Mother Teresa but the latter was, perhaps, more spiritual.

47. Swami Vivekananda praised the purity of some great Catholic nuns. He had said that, unlike the disciples of Christ who had washed his feet with tears, he would have washed them with his heart's blood.

48. Sri Ramakrishna had accepted Jesus Christ as a divine incarnation and this must be the greatest historical sanction of the Messiah's divinity, coming as it is from another incarnation of God.

49. To criticise liberalism is the order of the day in an order of humanity that is losing both humanity and sanity with it.

50. To be left of centre is not a crime. Forget not that the heart resides on the left. To be righteous is to be truly a rightist.

51. Science will alleviate poverty despite iniquities. The problem, though, is the environment, dominance and war.

52. The days of exclusive survival are over. Proselytising religions must either reform their exclusive ways or suffer extinction.

53. By failing to celebrate greatness in Gandhi and M.Teresa, men narrow their sympathies and scope of understanding greatness itself.

54. Let us rejoice that not a generation passes that does not throw up a leading light to guide humanity towards spiritual fulfilment.

55. Expand your heart and your soul will soar in the high heavens of the spirit.

56. Dive deep and discover the Divine.

57. A POINT TO NOTE
There is an increasing online intolerance these days with abrasive articulation and crass commenting becoming commoner than ever before. This decadent trend must be resisted and reversed. Coarse culture must not be allowed to conquer its sophisticated sibling. Let civility prevail. Let humanity restore sanity to social interaction.
Written by Sugata Bose

58. Wherever you see water stagnating, report to the municipal authority. Fight dengue by keeping the neighbourhood dry and clean.

59. Let us build ourselves by way of building India. Each brick well-formed and well-laid, the national edifice will stand firm.

60. We need to celebrate Sardar Patel more by way of paying homage for his seminal services towards the integration of India.

61. Work that serves is virtue, that which exploits is vice.

62. প্রতিটি মানুষের মধ্যে শক্তি আছে | এই অন্তর্নিহিত শক্তিতে বিশ্বাস ও তার বিকাশের প্রচেষ্টাই আস্তিকতা |

63. মহত ব্যক্তিকে অশ্রদ্ধা করাই আত্মহনন | তাঁকে শ্রদ্ধা করার মধ্যেই আত্মোন্নতির বীজ নিহিত |

64. Selfishness leads to misery ; selflessness bestows bliss.

65. Conversion is corruption.

66. To convert is to take a person's natural identity away.

67. To believe in an unproven thing may be a religious attribute but is certainly not a spiritual one.

Thursday 26 September 2019

IN APPRECIATION OF DR. MADHUSUDAN PAL'S (Madhusudan Pal) WORK ON NETAJI AND HIS COURAGEOUS STANCE THEREOF

IN APPRECIATION OF DR. MADHUSUDAN PAL'S (Madhusudan Pal) WORK ON NETAJI AND HIS COURAGEOUS STANCE THEREOF

I must commend you for your forthrightness, courage of conviction and straightforward articulation of what you know to be the truth about Netaji and your defence of the leader in the public forum in a manner that befits a brave follower of his. Where some others are meek in their defence, ever fearful of possible retribution, you, Dr. Madhusudan Pal, are dauntless in your diatribe against the perpetrators of perfidy against our patriot premier, the liberator of our motherland from foreign yoke. May Netaji inspire you to ever speak the truth and in a manner that is free of fallacious arguments so that truth be driven home to the masses who flounder in the midst of half-truths and falsities deliberately propagated by the pernicious parties who profit by such noxious propaganda! I look forward to more articulate addresses thus where meandering about the central issue under discussion will be minimum so as not to distract audience attention, and inferences will be drawn on the basis of concrete evidence and solid argument that will leave no loopholes for adversaries to pick on and pull down the citadel of truth so constructed.

The problem with scholars and researchers who speak in defence of the unsullied Netaji, the pure and principled patriot of unimpeachable character, the celibate revolutionary untainted with aught of carnal connection, is that they are not speakers proficient and cannot quite present the material evidence in their kitty in quite the manner as their opponents in the hired historians who propagate untruths about Netaji in a rather suave and savvy manner that catches the imagination of the public. And with official backing received at the governmental level, these latter ones steal the show to the chagrin of the true devotees of Netaji who have to bide by time hoping that some day some such articulate speaker will take up their cause to redress the balance. It is an imperative, thus, that speakers be trained in eloquent exposition of facts and figures with a felicity of speech and diction that will captivate the audience and drive home the message better.

May God bless you for your labour of love and keep you free of the hankering for personal fame and glory so that your dedication remains only to the establishment of truth and nothing but the truth! Jai Hind!

Written by Sugata Bose

Given below are three of the video links from YouTube of Dr. Madhusudan Pal's that relate to the marriage controversy of Netaji :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmXD65IPtKc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekk2yvlXR9w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5y7fKARpL8

THAKUR'S EMISSARY TO NEPAL



THAKUR'S EMISSARY TO NEPAL

Swami Ekarthananda Puri Maharaj, you are Thakur's emissary to Nepal. Spread his message and his life and bring glory unto the common people of Nepal who repose faith in the higher principles of life. Let the dharma spread and fulfil people's divine aspirations. Let peace and solace come to those who thirst for it.

You are the repository of Thakur's spirituality in your ancestral homeland, the organ of his divine expression, and you shall bring the people of Nepal close to the dharma of theirs and their forefathers, so bless you Thakur, so grace you Ma and so empower you Swamiji.

We are with you in this divine endeavour as you help blossom the buds unto their fairest fruition. And this is no vain assurance or a statement in superficial self-proclamation. It is well-meant and intended wholly to the propagation of the divine dharma of Sri Ramakrishna across the sub-continent to bring it back to its former glory of the integral life of the Spirit it once used to be when the earth, the sky and the spaces beyond reverberated with the thunderous tones of the shrutis pouring forth from the lips of those unblemished ones, the Rishis of Akhanda Bharatvarsha.

You, Maharaj, are the Rishi in the making today, the sage for the seekers of Nepal, who by Thakur's grace shall bring unto them his message of the divinity of their selves which is also the message of eternal India.

My best wishes and inspired prayers for the grand success of the Mission in Nepal for which you have been selected by the especial hands of the Almighty. Unto Him then rests the fruition of the project and unto you the effort of the intelligent instrument. Let us combine forces to roll the Wheel of Dharma along unto the eventual destination of absolute freedom.

Written by Sugata Bose

HE HITS IT STRAIGHT

HE HITS IT STRAIGHT

Dr. Madhusudan Pal, I admire you for your articulate courage. Your direct diatribes are worth more in my estimation than softened poetic renditions by way of critical reference to the perfidies that are daily perpetrated against the peerless patriot. Your courage of conviction stems from your data base on Netaji and your analytical faculties that allow you to arrive at inferential truths. Do continue to write elaborately along this line of perceptive thinking so that mass awareness is better generated about the multilayered mystery surrounding Netaji.

Written by Sugata Bose