AN APPRECIATION OF NETAJI'S ADDRESS AT THE GREATER EAST ASIA CONFERENCE OF 1943
What an address ! Netaji at his best. His grasp over international affairs, his diplomatic sagacity and his hold over historical episodes, all in a comprehensive free-flow of speech delivered in immaculate eloquent terms, makes this address one of historic significance where a seer among politicians with incisive insight into the womb of futurity prophesies about the unfolding course of events.
Indeed, Netaji, from his extensive international exposure and contacts thereof, from his comprehensive understanding of international relations and from his actual execution of plans and programmes for the freedom of India on the global stage, stands out among the leaders of the Indian National Congress and their fabled Mahatma, head and shoulders above the rest. Pity it is that even today few are interested in conducting extensive research into the exploits of this mighty man and are merely content in wallowing in the mire of a material culture of a most despicable appropriating order.
Netaji is for heroes for he himself was one, a hero of mythical proportions, yet, of flesh and blood just like the rest of us. It is the strong, the intelligent and the renounced who can properly appreciate the life, achievements and ideas of this patriot premier whom epithets can scarce attribute his true colour as a nationalist and an internationalist while all along retaining his human hues above everything.
Netaji seems to me to be the dramatis persona of Swamiji's political play, coded in cryptic terms in his considerable conversations and speeches but never quite enacted on the stage of this world in direct political terms for which he chose his protégé in the making, Subhas, who was not to fail him in eventual terms. Between the philosopher and the revolutionary, the preceptor and the pupil dealt the death-blow to world colonial imperialism and in truest terms liberated India and the rest of subjugated humanity.
The very speech of Subhas Chandra Bose at the Greater East Asia Conference, so redolent of his Vivekananda grooming with the same fire and uncompromising zeal in achieving the sublime objective of freedom as his Master gave his life for in a vaster field of spiritual fruition, makes Netaji stand out as one of the greatest world leaders of the time imbued with a wondrous sense of history, a capacity for direct action when the anvil is hot and a prophetic insight into the future where history in the making seeks deliverance of the womb of the progressive moment of the ever-shifting present.
Netaji needs to be studied more often, more diligently by a greater number of youths in especial, for he, like Swamiji, holds within the ambit of his magnetic personality the inspiration and the energy for the rise of future generations to sublime heights of nationalistic humanism where narrowness there is none and all of humanity is embraced while remaining rooted to one's essential identity as a people and a culture.
Written by Sugata Bose
What an address ! Netaji at his best. His grasp over international affairs, his diplomatic sagacity and his hold over historical episodes, all in a comprehensive free-flow of speech delivered in immaculate eloquent terms, makes this address one of historic significance where a seer among politicians with incisive insight into the womb of futurity prophesies about the unfolding course of events.
Indeed, Netaji, from his extensive international exposure and contacts thereof, from his comprehensive understanding of international relations and from his actual execution of plans and programmes for the freedom of India on the global stage, stands out among the leaders of the Indian National Congress and their fabled Mahatma, head and shoulders above the rest. Pity it is that even today few are interested in conducting extensive research into the exploits of this mighty man and are merely content in wallowing in the mire of a material culture of a most despicable appropriating order.
Netaji is for heroes for he himself was one, a hero of mythical proportions, yet, of flesh and blood just like the rest of us. It is the strong, the intelligent and the renounced who can properly appreciate the life, achievements and ideas of this patriot premier whom epithets can scarce attribute his true colour as a nationalist and an internationalist while all along retaining his human hues above everything.
Netaji seems to me to be the dramatis persona of Swamiji's political play, coded in cryptic terms in his considerable conversations and speeches but never quite enacted on the stage of this world in direct political terms for which he chose his protégé in the making, Subhas, who was not to fail him in eventual terms. Between the philosopher and the revolutionary, the preceptor and the pupil dealt the death-blow to world colonial imperialism and in truest terms liberated India and the rest of subjugated humanity.
The very speech of Subhas Chandra Bose at the Greater East Asia Conference, so redolent of his Vivekananda grooming with the same fire and uncompromising zeal in achieving the sublime objective of freedom as his Master gave his life for in a vaster field of spiritual fruition, makes Netaji stand out as one of the greatest world leaders of the time imbued with a wondrous sense of history, a capacity for direct action when the anvil is hot and a prophetic insight into the future where history in the making seeks deliverance of the womb of the progressive moment of the ever-shifting present.
Netaji needs to be studied more often, more diligently by a greater number of youths in especial, for he, like Swamiji, holds within the ambit of his magnetic personality the inspiration and the energy for the rise of future generations to sublime heights of nationalistic humanism where narrowness there is none and all of humanity is embraced while remaining rooted to one's essential identity as a people and a culture.
Written by Sugata Bose
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