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Drjayanta Choudhuri but is of unimpeachable character and genuine devotion to Netaji. Surely, he never caters to gathering public approbation in his research endeavours on Netaji or in his activism for the resurrection of the truth regarding the many facets of the hero's life and times that yet remain shrouded in a myriad mysteries. His is a selfless devotion to his leader within the parametric bounds of his personality, for sure, and it is ever the case with all.
The problem is that each person is possessed with his own distinctive style of speech and manners and different degrees of articulate courage. Netaji scholars are not all revolutionaries with a clear-cut agenda and mandate in action and, hence, this tendency to conflate different elements while delivering addresses which to the radical appears as a terrible compromise with the brutal truth of things. This is a problem essentially of human insufficiency in terms of mustered courage in representation of the truth as also of the limits set on oneself by rational considerations, cultural upbringing of family and society, not to speak of personality propensities and predilections which may not necessarily be indicative of an inferior understanding of the patriot's position in regard to one's countrymen. More often than not, it is a sense of largeness of spirit that impels one to appreciate others of common consciousness in one's bid to gather all such to the fold of the general body of the movement.
Drjayanta Choudhuri is a thorough gentleman imbued, nay, suffused with supernal love for his boyhood hero and his life's companion in the patriot peerless, and cannot be faulted too much on this count of his highly civilised stance towards fellow countrymen. His genial self prevents him from straying from the civilised diction that he is used to orating in and we are genuinely thankful that we have one such representative of the pristine culture of Netaji among our midst. I consider myself privileged to be considered by him as his friend and have ever found him affable in disposition towards me.
May Netaji's spirit further animate this supremely human person with a profound brain and a large heart, a wonderful humility and a wide sympathy that embraces all and rejects none, even adversarial ones, one who has matured into the finest specimen of a disciple of the beloved leader in the distillery of the hero's heart ! May he go from strength to strength in his life's endeavour to bring home the truths about Netaji to the people of this much-molested motherland of ours whose brightest star remains yet eclipsed in the umbra of malefic spheres !
Vande Mataram! Jai Hind !
Written by Sugata Bose
P.S. :
1. @Madhusudan Pal : Your analysis of contemporary political events in the light of the historical past and the accuracy of the predictions is remarkable. Your honesty is praiseworthy which does not clothe itself in pleasant poetic articulations as some others do on account of their character attributes, confused thinking and lack of courage of conviction.
2. @Madhusudan Pal : I admire your direct diatribes out of heart-felt patriotism. Alas, our countrymen must realise their follies and learn from them. But is change so easy in a vast country sleeping for ages?
3. @Madhusudan Pal : It is true, however, that forthrightness is necessary in driving home the point when pleasant appraisal may not succeed in garnering public support effectively.
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