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
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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
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