BETRAYAL ... 1
Bhagatram Talwar, alias Silver, was a quadruple agent of four world powers who helped Bose out of British India in 1941 but betrayed Netaji in 1945 to ruin his hopes of immediate freedom through the INA assault.
Strange are the ways of history and endless have been the betrayals that have foiled India's aspirations for freedom. Alas, there seems to be a law unto everything and it is this that unless the equal price be paid, freedom can neither be won nor preserved. Countless martyrs, thus, fell victim to treachery by co-revolutionaries, police informers and even relatives to account for the proper price of freedom. Their sacrifices have won us freedom which was not won merely by spinning of the yarn, long walks, pacifist talks over the table, fasting and prayer meets. Nor even by non-cooperation and civil disobedience. The tears, trials and tribulations of the kith and kin of the revolutionaries and the terrible torture endured by the young bodies and the young minds that was inflicted on them by the British police and military inflamed the nation to cut colonial connections and assert its freedom.
But the last betrayal yet awaited and that was sealed with the acceptance of the Dominion Status amidst a partitioned Transfer of Power. From Bhagatram Talwar to Jinnah-Nehru, the nation has been debilitated by betrayal after betrayal. We now need to reverse this trend. Jai Hind!
Written by Sugata Bose
Bhagatram Talwar, alias Silver, was a quadruple agent of four world powers who helped Bose out of British India in 1941 but betrayed Netaji in 1945 to ruin his hopes of immediate freedom through the INA assault.
Strange are the ways of history and endless have been the betrayals that have foiled India's aspirations for freedom. Alas, there seems to be a law unto everything and it is this that unless the equal price be paid, freedom can neither be won nor preserved. Countless martyrs, thus, fell victim to treachery by co-revolutionaries, police informers and even relatives to account for the proper price of freedom. Their sacrifices have won us freedom which was not won merely by spinning of the yarn, long walks, pacifist talks over the table, fasting and prayer meets. Nor even by non-cooperation and civil disobedience. The tears, trials and tribulations of the kith and kin of the revolutionaries and the terrible torture endured by the young bodies and the young minds that was inflicted on them by the British police and military inflamed the nation to cut colonial connections and assert its freedom.
But the last betrayal yet awaited and that was sealed with the acceptance of the Dominion Status amidst a partitioned Transfer of Power. From Bhagatram Talwar to Jinnah-Nehru, the nation has been debilitated by betrayal after betrayal. We now need to reverse this trend. Jai Hind!
Written by Sugata Bose
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