THE 'CLINCHING EVIDENCE' -- REQUIRED AND NOT REQUIRED AS IT SUITS
Why is Netaji's 'marriage and progeny' accepted by a section of his extended family without 'clinching evidence' to support it when the very same members fume at Gumnami Baba being dubbed Netaji without 'clinching evidence' to support it? Is it not selective acceptance and rejection on an arbitrary basis? What motivates this acceptance of one and rejection of the other?
If 'clinching evidence' is to be the criterion, reject anything that falls short of it. Surely, Netaji's 'marriage and progeny' have no such supportive evidence as may be called 'clinching'. Neither does the so-called Taihoku Aircrash have it. If, without such definitive proof, the said section of the Bose family quite easily can accept these 'events', then how is it that they demand absolute proof for the theory that Gumnami Baba was/is Netaji? This is not to say that they must accept the Baba as Netaji but it only is to affirm that they have hardly the rational basis for asking for evidence here when without such they can accept Netaji's so-called marital and paternal status.
Let me leave it here now for all to ponder this peculiar proclivity of these family members which to me seems a bit baffling, to understate it.
Jai Hind !
Written by Sugata Bose
Why is Netaji's 'marriage and progeny' accepted by a section of his extended family without 'clinching evidence' to support it when the very same members fume at Gumnami Baba being dubbed Netaji without 'clinching evidence' to support it? Is it not selective acceptance and rejection on an arbitrary basis? What motivates this acceptance of one and rejection of the other?
If 'clinching evidence' is to be the criterion, reject anything that falls short of it. Surely, Netaji's 'marriage and progeny' have no such supportive evidence as may be called 'clinching'. Neither does the so-called Taihoku Aircrash have it. If, without such definitive proof, the said section of the Bose family quite easily can accept these 'events', then how is it that they demand absolute proof for the theory that Gumnami Baba was/is Netaji? This is not to say that they must accept the Baba as Netaji but it only is to affirm that they have hardly the rational basis for asking for evidence here when without such they can accept Netaji's so-called marital and paternal status.
Let me leave it here now for all to ponder this peculiar proclivity of these family members which to me seems a bit baffling, to understate it.
Jai Hind !
Written by Sugata Bose
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