HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY !
Those who care to know the history of our freedom struggle, know for certain that today is our Independence Day. On 21 October, 1943 Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, standing on the soil of Singapore, declared India free of British imperial control and launched the Provisional Government of Free India. Two days later, on the 23rd of October, 1943, the Provisional Government declared war on the Anglo-American forces and the Indian National Army was thus engaged in a titanic struggle against them in its bid to liberate India by armed action in alliance with the Japanese forces. This war of liberation proved crucial to the subsequent eviction of the British from Indian soil, as history has testified.
That the nation yet sleeps on this momentous day and is almost unaware about its reality and significance proves to what level we have sunk as a people and to what extent we remain, yet, mentally colonised to the British in our acceptance of the partitioned Dominion Status on the 15th of August, 1947. It is time to awake from this self-oblivious slumber and rise up to wrest our true historical heritage in the proclamation of our true independence, that of undivided India, on 21 October, 1943. Let us rejoice by spreading the good news around. In this shall lie our service to the motherland.
Written by Sugata Bose
Those who care to know the history of our freedom struggle, know for certain that today is our Independence Day. On 21 October, 1943 Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, standing on the soil of Singapore, declared India free of British imperial control and launched the Provisional Government of Free India. Two days later, on the 23rd of October, 1943, the Provisional Government declared war on the Anglo-American forces and the Indian National Army was thus engaged in a titanic struggle against them in its bid to liberate India by armed action in alliance with the Japanese forces. This war of liberation proved crucial to the subsequent eviction of the British from Indian soil, as history has testified.
That the nation yet sleeps on this momentous day and is almost unaware about its reality and significance proves to what level we have sunk as a people and to what extent we remain, yet, mentally colonised to the British in our acceptance of the partitioned Dominion Status on the 15th of August, 1947. It is time to awake from this self-oblivious slumber and rise up to wrest our true historical heritage in the proclamation of our true independence, that of undivided India, on 21 October, 1943. Let us rejoice by spreading the good news around. In this shall lie our service to the motherland.
Written by Sugata Bose
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