TO CLARIFY CONCEPTIONS FOR ALL AND SUNDRY

TO CLARIFY CONCEPTIONS FOR ALL AND SUNDRY

1. Clement Attlee admitted to Justice Phani Bhusan ChakravarttI that it was Subhas Chandra Bose whose armed aggression against the British Crown had forced the eviction of the British from Indian soil.

2. Lord Louis Mountbatten had admittedly confided in Amiya Nath Bose in London at his self-residence that it was his uncle Subhas Chandra Bose who had forced the British to leave India. This is on record in the YouTube where Surya Kumar Bose has brought this piece of information to the fore for all.

3. Common sense and a bit of historical sense would compel us to come to the same conclusion that it was Netaji and his INA that had forced the British to hand over the governance of India to Indian hands and exit from India while yet there was time to do so in grace. Else, they would have to face the ire of an Indian people and a rebellious Indian armed force in their ranks like they had never encountered since the days of the Great Revolt of 1857 which had almost done their empire in.

If, yet, you cannot see the links to freedom and the role of Netaji in it and continue to harp on the non-violent nonsensical rigmarole, you are either pretentious, and perniciously so, or you are one of those perfidious elements of society that need weeding in the wake of the formation of a republic which in course of time will be your fate for sure.

Written by Sugata Bose

Sugata Bose Arindrajit Debsarma That would be arrogance on our part. Civility and fellow-feeling demands greater consideration for our countrymen. Reiteration is always good for men of ordinary merit like me and it seriously does do a world of good. After all, repetition is the way of all learning and even advanced scholars profit from such primary exercise. Therefore, to state the obvious is like witnessing every morning the same sun without becoming bored of such a daily routine to begin the day. Repetition is as worthwhile an exercise as the repetitive breathing which keeps us alive. All of Nature rises and falls in repetitive rhythms and such constitute the cycles of creation. Hence, where's the harm in reiterating truths when repetition of lies is intent on wiping out the factual features of history? Also, everybody is not in the same phase of understanding and knowledge as you are and would genuinely appreciate my humble submissions of articulate truth. So, I have resolved to go ahead with stating what may seem obvious to you on account of superior understanding but what others like me of humbler conceptions may deem worthy of reading and reflecting on.

Sugata Bose Arindrajit Debsarma No, no, I took it in spirit and so must you. Actually, I am fond of writing and anything that triggers my thinking brings forth a plethora of verbal expression on my part. So, in happy humour I responded to your call.

Sugata Bose Arindrajit Debsarma You are a good soul and are spontaneous. Your impulsiveness is an affirmative attribute and naivete your innocence in mature bloom. Therefore, hold on to who you are and contribute to society in your self-styled way. Write here on this group page, too, and help embellish it with your thoughts on Netaji and the revolutionary movement for freedom.

JOURNALIST, HISTORIAN AND ALL OF THEIR ILK

JOURNALIST, HISTORIAN AND ALL OF THEIR ILK

Journalism should be unbiased, especially when it comes to uncovering the truth of the disappearance mystery of Netaji. How can a preferential account based on preconception and bias be credible? Such narratives invariably will quicken public doubt and distrust thereof which will deepen disbelief in the said account and prove to be counterproductive for the propagators of untruth. Hence, honest pursuit of truth is more acceptable to the public in the long run and is worth more by way of cherishing as a journalist.

However, there is a catch here as well. The people must not be led into the blind alleyway of fantastic theories and conceptions by irresponsible writers and so-called researchers whose own credentials as scholars need examination, men who themselves harbour wild notions based on scanty and unconnected evidence and arrive at sweeping conclusions that suit their emotional needs more than their rational necessities, and men who thereon go about propagating such 'truths' with impunity on social media to attract attention to themselves while falsifying unwittingly historical happenings to which they were not privy.

Which way truth is, is a difficult proposition to gauge but the only scientific method would be to rely on the time-tested method of rational rigour which forms the basis for legal attestation.

Netaji, thus, stands at the crossroads of history awaiting final judgement by posterity on his fate post-disappearance which shall be the sanctioned and sealed account of it based on the best evidence finally available and its best analysis and approval gained thereby. Till we arrive at such an evolved hour when this eventual estimation of his fate will have been done, heresies, 'historical' and by dint of hearsay, will continue to thrive and entertain the public and they shall also enjoy and suffer the consequences of such propagation of false truth by the cartloads.

Jai Hind !

Written by Sugata Bose

NOTHING CONCLUSIVE YET

NOTHING CONCLUSIVE YET

Nothing conclusive has been reached about the fate of Netaji beyond speculations, claims and convictions. Legal confirmation, official affirmation is yet necessary to set the seal on inferences arrived at. Only then can the truth be chronicled as certified fact, free of myth and devoid of claims and counter-claims as to its veracity or otherwise. For this we must all work and labour hard at that so that our sustained pressure forces governmental hands to open up files and, so, lay open this Pandora's Box of contentious secrets that are vital to the unravelling of this case. Our work must also be to educate ourselves about the pertinent points of this case whose ignorance can only help the adversarial forces to further conspire and keep this issue from being resolved.

Over-secrecy by the followers of Bhagavanji in this regard in terms of divulging details is becoming counter-productive and pushing the case away from its rightful solution. Superstitious clinging to fantastic notions, impossible hopes of a return to life at the age of 123 in full health and physical vigour is, I believe, proving ruinous to the chances of a successful closure of the case, that is, assuming that the followers of the reclusive monk of Faizabad indeed have material explosive enough to shed light yet on the corridors of darkened gloom. But whatever is available to us already must provide for us the springboard for affirmative action in study and reflection, coordinated pressure-building and cumulative concentration to overcome official inertia, opposition and antagonism towards revelation of the real truth of the eventual fate of Netaji.

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বিবাহিত ? ঠিক বলছেন তো ?

বিবাহিত ? ঠিক বলছেন তো ?
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আজীবন স্বামীজীর প্রতি অনুরক্ত থেকে শেষে কিনা হলেন রমণীর প্রতি অনুরক্ত ? একি সম্ভব ? আলোকচিত্রে পরিস্ফুট ব্রহ্মচর্যের চিহ্ন ।

যাঁরা গুমনামী বাবাকে নেতাজী চরিত্রের সাথে খাপ খাওয়াতে পারেন না বলে মারমুখো, তাঁরা নেতাজীর এই জৈব দুর্বলতাকে কেমন করে তাঁর চরিত্রের সাথে খাপ খাওয়ান ? মনে হয়না কি তাঁদের যে এ এক ঘোরতর চক্রান্ত নেতাজীকে কলঙ্কলেপিত করার ? কেমন করে এই বৈসাদৃশ্য মেনে নেন তাঁরা ? সামান্য বিবেকানন্দ ভক্তের দ্বারা যা অসম্ভব, তা নেতাজীর ন্যায় মহামানবের দ্বারা কিরূপে সম্ভব ? নেতাজীর বুঝি লোকধর্মের বোধ ছিল না ? তাঁর ন্যায় মহাপুরুষের বুঝি হিতাহিত জ্ঞান ছিল না ? এমনই সংযতেন্দ্রিয় ছিলেন বুঝি তিনি যে মর্যাদার সকল সীমা উল্লঙ্ঘন করে আগামী প্রজন্মের কাছে ব্যভিচারের প্রকৃষ্ট উদাহরণ স্থাপন করে গেলেন ? এও কি হয় ? কেমন করে খাপ খাওয়াচ্ছেন নেতাজী চরিত্রের সাথে ব্যভিচারের এই ভয়ঙ্কর বৈসাদৃশ্য ? অসুবিধা হচ্ছেনা এবার ঠিক যেমন গুমনামী বাবাকে নেতাজী বলে মানতে হয় ?

ভাবুন এই ষড়যন্ত্রের শরিক হয়ে কোন তিমিরে নামছেন । ভাল করে ভাবুন । সংশোধনের এখনও সময় আছে । সত্যের পথে আসুন, যথার্থ নেতাজী অনুরাগী হন । নচেৎ, সব বৃথা মিথ্যাচার বলেই পরিগণিত হবে পরিশেষে । ভারতের ইতিহাস সংশোধনের আগে নেতাজীর জীবনের এই কল্পিত ইতিহাসটি আগে সংশোধন করুন । কি বলেন মান্যবর ?

রচয়িতা : সুগত বসু (Sugata Bose)

Sugata Bose Jayashree Mmishra সত্যের উপস্থাপন । জনজাগরণ । সত্য সম্বন্ধে নিজে অবহিত হয়ে সত্যের সেই বার্তা জনমানসে ছড়িয়ে দেওয়ার ঐকান্তিক প্রচেষ্টা -- এই হল পন্থা, সংশোধনের উপায় ।

Sugata Bose Debkanti Moitra রাজা মহারাজ বিবাহ করেছিলেন জীবনের প্রারম্ভে, চৈতন্যলোকে পদার্পণের প্রাক্কালে । আর নেতাজী কিনা বিবাহ করলেন স্বামীজীর পুণ্যপ্রভার পূর্ণস্পর্শে জীবনের পরিণত পর্বে সকল সামাজিক মর্যাদা উল্লঙ্ঘন করে ? নেতাজীর এই তথাকথিত প্রণয়পরিনতি শুধু প্রমাণের অভাবে পরিত্যাজ্যই নয়, ঐতিহাসিক পটভূমিকায় অবিশ্বাস্য ও অসম্ভব । বিবাহ ব্যক্তিগত ব্যাপার অবশ্যই কিন্তু নেতাজীর ক্ষেত্রে সামাজিক, রাজনৈতিক ও বিশ্বপরিস্থিতির নিরিখে তার এহেন সংঘটন অসম্ভব বলেই মনে হয় । অবশ্য, আপনার বিচার ও সিদ্ধান্তকে সম্মান করেই স্বীয় বক্তব্য পরিবেশন করলাম ।

পুনশ্চ : সে যুগে কি অবৈধ পরিণয়সূত্রে লিপ্ত হওয়া অথবা বিবাহবহির্ভূত সন্তান প্রজনন সামাজিকভাবে গৃহীত ছিল ভারতবর্ষে না আজও আছে? জার্মানিতে এ বিবাহ স্বীকৃত ছিল না । অতএব, কি দাঁড়ালো ? নেতাজীর ন্যায় নৈতিক নিষ্ঠাবান নরপুঙ্গবের এহেন নীতিহিনতা নিশ্চয় আত্মনির্যাতন ভিন্ন আর কিছু নয় বলেই নির্ধারণ করি ।

Sugata Bose Juthika Sarkar আদপে কী কোনো চিঠি লিখেছিলেন নেতাজী শরৎচন্দ্র বসুকে?

AUTHORITARIAN NETAJI ?

AUTHORITARIAN NETAJI ?

Netaji is so often wrongly labelled as an authoritarian, dictatorial leader with a hunger for power that had degenerated him into an unapologetic fascist towards the end of his political career overseas. Well, nothing can be farther from the truth. Netaji had lifelong remained an ardent democrat with socialist leanings but with declared aspirations towards disciplining his fellow countrymen with a modicum of force, if necessary, so that India would emerge quickly a strong modern nation with the ability to survive well in a hostile world ruled by realpolitik and strong arm measures, courtesy the modern military machinery aiding global governance by the major world powers. That much for his alleged dictatorial streak, a trait frequently averred by his opponents to their advantage but amounting to nothing substantial concerning the premier people's man that Netaji preeminently was.

Jai Hind !

Written by Sugata Bose

THE DREAM THAT HOLDS AND THE DREAM THAT BREAKS TO FRESHLY FORGE THE LINKS OF LIFE

THE DREAM THAT HOLDS AND THE DREAM THAT BREAKS TO FRESHLY FORGE THE LINKS OF LIFE

This universe has locked its secrets and men are seeking to unlock them. But men are crossing each other's path, causing misery. Ignorance blocks the way. Through the dark night through uncharted path man trudges along. It is a lonesome journey from the dark to light. It is a perilous trackless chase of a dream which breaks as it freshly forms to lead on man to truth. There all dreams break to soul release. There name and form and number cease. There the screen shifts, the veil lifts and the world dissolves in unbroken truth. Unto such a midday we all move on, from dawn to dusk and dusk to dawn, ever failing to strike the sun sharp when the clock strikes noon. We miss the mark, we fail the truth, we labour to live and die in vain till one blessed dawn or dark night deep, we spring to light and life anew, free, forever free.

Written by Sugata Bose

TWEETS ALONE ... 1

1. Religion invariably divides humankind into antagonistic units fighting for supremacy. It is a veiled form of politics that exclusive proselytising religion does. As such, the sooner the Vedanta becomes the possession of all and sundry, the better for peace in this religiously fractured world of ours.

2. If poetry be not there in the soul, beholding the Ancient Poet is beyond possibility. Hence, men for all their scriptural verbosity have so often been rendered culturally sterile.

3. Life lingers on to deliver the message divine. Then the wave will subside and the water gather to embrace the dissolving form in its vast loving arms.

4. Fools gather to pray at a time when contact itself is death's agent. Death stalks open in avenues and assemblies but can scarce penetrate the walls of your homes should you observe the health directives. COVID-19 can strike only where distance is diminished and not otherwise.

5. Mustafa Kamal Ataturk, the revolutionary dictator of Turkey who transformed Turkish society from a theocratic medieval one to a secular modern one. His life and works had been well studied by Netaji and the latter, deeply influenced by the radical transformation that Ataturk had brought about in theocratic Turkey, sought in his work the model he would have liked to have followed post independence, albeit in an Indian variation of it.

6. Being part of an exploitative system, all work tends to social evil. But how to rid oneself of it when the alternate socialist/communist system exploits in a worse manner? A social democracy founded on the philosophy of the Vedanta ought to resolve this exploitative crisis. Om !

7. The problems mount by the day. The solutions dwindle. Human society moves rapidly towards the precipice of annihilation. If a radical shift in human consciousness does not take place now, as it happens in the cyclical advance of evolution, humanity is doomed.

8. May Mother bless all her children !Photo : courtesy, Moni Lahiri, a Facebook friend, whose aesthetic sense I can never quite fully appreciate for words fail me in the endeavour to do so. But his generosity towards me in allowing me the privilege to share his designed photos I can surely thankfully acknowledge and heartily, too.

IN RESPONSE TO DEBAPRASAD BHATTACHARYA'S QUESTION IF IT IS PROPER TO HAVE SEPARATE CIVIL CODES FOR COMMUNITIES IN A SECULAR STATE

IN RESPONSE TO DEBAPRASAD BHATTACHARYA'S QUESTION IF IT IS PROPER TO HAVE SEPARATE CIVIL CODES FOR COMMUNITIES IN A SECULAR STATE

Perhaps, they are thus attending to cultural diversity. But, you are right, for there ought to be umpteen civil codes in the polity then to cater to umpteen diversities which would make our polity a civic circus with judges confounded by the jokers' performances and thereby coming to hilarious conclusions instead of ordered judgement.

Partition had taken place along a fractured communal line, based strictly on Islamic incompatibility of coexistence with Hindus in a Hindu majority state. That a huge section of the Muslims could not or did not part from their native homeland and preferred to stay on in India despite an Islamic republic having been made by Jinnah and company for them in the form of Pakistan, paved the way for the requirement on their part of their civil rights to be followed as per their particular scriptural injunction. That it was so accommodated in independent secular India and the Muslim Personal Law [Shariat] Application Act of 1937 was allowed to continue may be construed today as Nehru's appeasement policy of the Muslims fro security of the vote bank or may be interpreted as his liberal attitude towards such matters, especially in the aftermath of Partition when tensions were sought to be eased and the Indian polity preserved from further rupture. However, it would have a long-term effect, as Nehru may have conjectured even then but was either incapable or ill-disposed to preventing, and that is what we are witnessing today when such a Personal Law is keeping the Indian Muslim as an identity apart from the rest of the citizenry in India. Perhaps, Nehru had too many preoccupations at that time to be able to deal with this problem, given the fact that he was a trifle soft in handling grave matters and prone to indecision and inaction in many such matters. However, that the status quo was allowed to continue indefinitely calls for introspection as to the exact character of the polity despite its secular pretensions and needs fresher examination today as to the means and measures that ought to be adopted to render the Constitution truly secular, if even in the Indian sense, for pure secularism has never obtained in India, being antithetical to the very concept prevalent in this country in its name.

Secularism does not admit religious association in the state in any remote manner as well. It separates 'the Church from the State', so to say, and all citizens are treated alike irrespective of their religious affiliations which are deemed personal liberties having neither connection to nor bearing on the state's functioning. However, the queer form of secularism that is in vogue in India is in sharp contrast to this distinctive definition and is a curious antithesis of it which allows the state to foster all religions with equal patronage without privilege afforded to any. However, the Minority Rights Act of the Constitution, perhaps, comes in the way of repealing the Muslim Personal Law [Shariat] Act of 1937 and, thus, through diffidence or lack of daring to forge ahead and enforce the Uniform Civil Code, the Muslim Personal Law [Shariat] continues to this day. And surely this an anomaly for a secular state which India by law is. Should it be so? Certainly not.

Written by Sugata Bose

WORK, THE PANACEA FOR ALL EVILS

WORK, THE PANACEA FOR ALL EVILS

People need to be responsible enough to live by their commitment to truth. The vast number of people are weak-willed and irresolute, though, and do not abide by the word given. The national will, thus, weakens and national performance slackens.

The collective national output is the resolution of individual outputs. As such we must work relentlessly for national efficiency. A vast country like India cannot afford loss of work through (a) indolence (b) lack of infrastructure that can accommodate greater amount of input work (c) enforced abstinence from work by the declaration of strikes, bandhs and the like. 1.3 billion people cannot subsist on air. Thus, a constancy of labour by one and all alone can help lift this country out of poverty, inefficiency and want.

We have the grand example of our illustrious forefathers who, as it were, worked their way to death for national and world welfare. Vivekananda, Tagore, Gandhi, Netaji and Rash Behari Bose are but a few extreme examples of it who were karma yogis completely dedicated to the cause of national and international redemption from the thraldom of ignorance, misery and that worst vice of all, slavery to exploitative races. We have only to study their lives in depth and imbibe their attributes before we execute them in terms of affirmative action for the amelioration of human misery everywhere, to begin with, in India.

Human frailties are but natural and nothing works magically in a perfect manner. The world we live in is full of contradictions, chaotic conditions often which it is our task to straighten and simplify, for the riddle is there only to be solved and not cribbed about. This world of ours, despite its conditional constraints, offers us the best balance of forces for evolution to be expedited. As such we must make fullest use of the available opportunities and work our way towards a brighter future for all. No labour goes in vain if even in the most meagre quantity fed into the system. It will resolve out to produce some amount of useful output provided the intent be good and the work done is in consonance with law and the spirit of human welfare.

Written by Sugata Bose

THE MAHATMA AND THE MASSES ... 4

THE MAHATMA AND THE MASSES ... 4

Gandhiji could somehow strike the right chord with the masses of India. His extreme disciplined labour and total identification with the poor masses endeared him to the people in a manner history has rarely borne testimony to. I remember Swami Lokeshwaranandaji saying in a lecture that since the Buddha never has any one in the history of India mustered such popular support. Incidentally, Lokeshwaranandaji himself was a revolutionary who had renounced politics and embraced monasticism.

Gandhiji's greatest achievement was transforming the national movement from an elitist urban metropolis affair to a mass-based popular movement. Herein lies his significance as the leader nonpareil in the freedom struggle, an epithet that was only once more won deservedly by another younger leader, Subhas Chandra Bose who three million East Asians hailed as the 'Netaji'.

Vande Mataram ! Jai Hind !

Written by Sugata Bose

ARE WE CIVILISED?

ARE WE CIVILISED?

The world is yet to be civilised. So long as self-interest dictates action, deeds are dastardly and culture cruel. Civilisation is then a far cry.

While the millions go hungry, the destitute adorn the sidewalks and men like worms live their despicable lives in material misery, how on earth can we claim that we are any better than civilised savages who prey on each other to fulfil their animal mandate?

Ages have passed, wild forests have been replaced by urban jungles and, yet, the old order of predator-prey relation continues in all its naked barbarism with no sign of abating. It seems it will take millenia for men to grow out of this gross mould and assume a higher spiritual order where animal relations will have been replaced by a humanity that sees itself reflected in all as its own self and seeks to embrace all in a union that defies the divisive order of the day.

Till then let us fight on to usher in that brighter morn when the first rays of the sun shall seek its rainbow reflection off the walls of the first dewdrop moistening the early flora. May my sisters and brothers bless each other and work harmoniously for the advent of such a luminous day !

Vande Mataram !

Written by Sugata Bose

THE COMMONWEALTH CONUNDRUM

THE COMMONWEALTH CONUNDRUM

Photo : courtesy, Chinmoy Bose

Read and reflect and you will realise your true status if you are imagining that you are a free citizen of a free nation. Who is your sovereign? You yourself, as an element of the people of India, or the Queen of England who apparently does not need a visa to visit India and can simply walk in to her own territory as such? Did we get independence on 26 January, 1950 when we declared ourselves to be a republic or are we still a dependent dominion of the British Empire in secret with its dominance in some oblique way stretching yet to our lands and our seas? I seek legal opinion in this matter from any who may be having that expertise here so that I may arrive at my conclusions then as to this contentious matter which has befuddled us all for long.

Written by Sugata Bose

CONVERSION THAT LEADS TO CULTURAL CONQUEST

CONVERSION THAT LEADS TO CULTURAL CONQUEST

Conversion is cultural conquest and must be resisted if we are to preserve our cultural identity. Conversion has as its basis a political motive which must be thwarted. Else, our nation's security will remain in perpetual threat, for in a democracy demography plays a crucial role and where population spurt in a particular direction through conversion attempts subversion of national culture and heritage, security concerns become all the more important, especially when theocratic injunctions seem to be in line with such population boom. Conversion must be stopped, thus, from Hinduism to Islam and Christianity at any rate if we are cognisant of our longterm national needs.

Written by Sugata Bose

CHANDRASEKHAR AZAD, PRANAM

CHANDRASEKHAR AZAD, PRANAM

This day we must remember the sacrifices of Chandrasekhar Azad who, betrayed by a compatriot, died valiantly fighting the British forces at Alfred Park, Prayagraj.

27 February, 1931 marks a significant moment in India's struggle for freedom. It epitomises all that was manly in our armed resistance to the dastardly British reign in India for two centuries and more that despoiled her of her wealth and ruined her people's hopes and aspirations like no nation has ever done to this great motherland of ours. The British, like leeches, sucked the life-blood of the nation and rent her dry before they were forced out of her shores by the cumulative revolutionary movement of men like Chandrasekhar Azad and his comrades-in-arms, a struggle that progressively built up to culminate in the final assault of the Indian National Army at the height of the Second World War leading to their eventual eviction.

This day we must remember. We must bow down our heads in salutations to the prostrate form of the free soul who laid down his life by his own hands but could not brook arrest by the enemy. That last bullet when ammunition had failed him, he reserved for his own body before he flew on the wings of supernal love for the motherland to his own freedom.

But freedom for Azad, whose very name epitomised the spirit of the revolutionaries, could not be achieved in his lifetime, and he left behind his legacy for future revolutionaries to carry on his crusade, a legacy that yet lives on to light fresher lamps of that intangible aspect of the revolutionary breed that know no rest till all of humanity has been rendered justice in this world of terrible iniquities.

Azad had carried on the mantle from the hanged Ramprasad Bismil, Rajendranath Lahiri, Ashfaqulla Khan and Thakur Roshan Singh, the quartet who had been damned by the authorities for their conducting of the Kakori Train Robbery in 1925. He was himself actively involved in this daring robbery but escaped arrest and lay underground for a while before, aided by the likes of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar, Shivaram Rajguru, Bhagvati Charan Vohra and Batukeshwar Dutta, he reorganised resistance to the British, attempted the blowing up of the Viceroy's train in 1926 and avenged the death of Lala Lajpat Rai by assassinating of J.P. Saunders at Lahore in 1928.

The rest is well chronicled in history, the Central Legislative Assembly bombing by Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutta in 1929, the infamous incarceration of Azad's followers in Lahore Jail followed by the travesty of a trail that led to the execution of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru for involvement and complicity in the murder of Saunders, and the final act of self-immolation fighting the British at Alfred Park on 27 February, 1931 that has immortalised Chandrasekhar Azad and draw us today to offer our heart's adoration at his hallowed feet.

Undaunted in life and unvanquished in death, Chandrasekhar Azad lives on. May our motherland, Mother India, bless her beloved son is the earnest prayer unto her by this insignificant son of hers !

Vande Mataram ! Jai Hind !

Written by Sugata Bose

PARTITION -- WHO'S TO BLAME?

PARTITION -- WHO'S TO BLAME?

Must Netaji be blamed for leaving India and allowing Jinnah free space for dividing the nation in collusion with the British or ought the blame to be borne by the British, Jinnah and Gandhi-Nehru-Patel, the parties that

[a] created the conditions,

[b] perpetrated violence to achieve the end, and

[c] capitulated and compromised to set the seal on the deal?

Who must eventually bear the brunt of the responsibility -- Netaji or these perfidious parties spearheaded by the British and the All India Muslim League headed by Muhammad Ali Jinnah and backed by the Americans as well for geopolitical advantages to be secured in the long run?

How can Netaji in any way be blamed for Partition when he was nowhere near the scene of the proceedings that dismembered the motherland? His was the one unifying war of freedom which ought to have been supported by Gandhi-Nehru-Patel-Azad and the like that would have in effect held the nation together. But they all went against him and, despite token submissions regarding his patriotism, as in the case of Gandhiji's equivocal affirmations, did nothing to help his cause of freedom by armed resistance. Nehru openly advocated counter-violence against the INA when he said that he would go to meet Subhas with unsheathed sword should he dare lead the Japanese into Indian territory in the name of fascist freedom.

If Jinnah colluded with the British to partition India in the absence of the mighty Bose who would have resisted tooth and nail to prevent it, the brave-heart who befriended even the Devil incarnate to free India cannot be thereby blamed for his absence from the motherland that precipitated Partition, for the very forces that forced his eviction from India to seek foreign help were there, sitting puppets of the British Crown, to accede to his perfidious demand. Hence, the blame for Partition, to my mind, ought to fall on the shoulders of the following in the descending order of responsibility thereof :

1) The British

2) Jinnah and his Muslim League

3) Gandhi-Nehru-Patel-Congress.

I rest my case here and leave the podium for others to present theirs.

Jai Hind ! Vande Mataram !

Written by Sugata Bose

WHAT A SHAME!

WHAT A SHAME!

What a shame that there are so many as yet who would want to bury the truth about Netaji post-disappearance and yet claim that they are thus honouring the iconic leader ! It seems Netaji's stars somehow draw endless intrigues on him. Else, from his days in the Congress to his post-disappearance phase even till this day, the conspiracies hatched against him know no end.

One hardly sees anybody genuinely interested in the unravelling of the truth without fear or favour, commission or omission, compromise or collusion tainting such effort. Netaji, as Keshab Bhattacherjee rightly alludes to in his magnum opus, 'চক্রব্যূহে নেতাজী' ('Chakrabyuhey Netaji'), has been caught inside the wheel-like military formation, surrounded by enemies on all sides, and is battling to emerge free from its impregnable walls. But the author assures us that the hero, unlike Abhimanyu, will not fail to penetrate his way out of the wheel and therein lies the hope.

But it baffles one to behold such an overwhelming betrayal of the leader by all and sundry, by whosoever has had any proximity to him by whatsoever relation, then or now. Is Netaji such a milch cow that, like in bygone decades, even today his legacy, instead of being duly upheld and followed, is milked for purposes profane with each party censuring the other for such perfidy? One wonders.

Photo source : Internet

Written by Sugata Bose

LET THE KEYPAD TALK FOR ALL OF YOU

LET THE KEYPAD TALK FOR ALL OF YOU

An endless stream of write-ups are necessary for the vibrancy of this group. Please contribute your respective articles and enliven proceedings. Your individual perspectives are important and merit attentive reading. So, please do not hesitate to forward your thoughts on the multiple facets of Netaji's life and career, his personality and perspectives, his life's philosophy and political ideology, his nationalism and internationalism, his idea of socialism suited to Indian conditions, his view on India's civilisation and culture, and, of course, that most stimulating and scintillating of subjects, his tragic disappearance post 17 August, 1945.

This is a request made to each one of you from the core of my heart. Kindly read, reflect and write for all of us so that we may profit by your particular perspective and feel stimulated by such into ourselves taking similar initiatives with the keypad. Please do not hesitate as we are all sisters and brothers here sharing the same shade of the Netaji banyan and are equals in this otherwise terrible world of inhuman iniquities.

Hope to see you soon as a reader of your write-up. Till then I shall wait in eager anticipation.

Jai Hind ! Jai Netaji !

Written by Sugata Bose [Administrator]

ALAS, WHY THE BATTLE OVER GUMNAMI BABA?

ALAS, WHY THE BATTLE OVER GUMNAMI BABA?

How many parties are there to this sucking up of self-interest at the cost of Netaji? Are dedicated journalists seeking solutions to this seemingly unfathomable mystery the only ones who profit by it as alleged by some? Or are the very levellers of such allegation equally the beneficiaries of Netaji's legacy? Is there a problem somewhere that seems increasingly evident in verbal clashes between the protagonists and the antagonists of the theory that Gumnami Baba is/was Netaji?

One can only imagine the reasons behind such antagonism that frequently surfaces these days and sullies the atmosphere surrounding the memory of this pristine pure peerless patriot of our motherland, the like of whom no nation has, perhaps, seen ever in recorded history if I am not overstretching my own adulation of the hero of epic proportions.

Written by Sugata Bose

FACEBOOK COMMENTS ... 7

Sugata Bose It is being said in this video that Netaji's only daughter is Anita Bose who has filed an application to the government for a DNA test of the Renkoji ashes? Now is this assertion credible that she is the daughter of Netaji or is this an attempt to force this narrative of daughter down the throat of viewers to perpetuate this alleged longstanding marriage myth of Netaji? To all intents and purposes it appears that Netaji was a lifelong celibate and, hence, this question of his fathering progeny seems an outrageous proposition that has neither documentary bearing to testify for its veracity nor has popular acceptance among his multitudinous followers who cannot be thus convinced by arbitrary assertions, unproven and unverified before a law court. So far as the 'love letters' of Netaji go, they need legal scrutiny for their authenticity and the same applies to the alleged letter written by Netaji to elder brother Sarat Chandra Bose from overseas.

Sugata Bose Partha Sanyal But she is Brigette Pfaff. Whence this surname Bose has been added unto her?

Sugata Bose Tamoghna Das Sharma You write well. Why do you not contribute some write-ups to the group? Your style is crisp, writing reasoned and conception clear. It would do this group and yourself a service to employ your talents to contributing essays here on contentious issues concerning Netaji and the revolutionaries, disappearance et al.

Sugata Bose Out in the wilderness seeking the fire in the bush.

Sugata Bose Intellectually deficient as well.

Sugata Bose Subhas Chanda Is this a new one in the offing after the latest one by Sayak Sen exposed the loophole in the earlier reported DNA test?

Sugata Bose Listen attentively to the appraisal of Netaji by Hiren Mukerjee. It is breathtaking in its synoptic brilliance, its succinct analysis and its synthetic summing up.

Sugata Bose Again you have misread the intent of the post. The question is, ought you to initiate insult?

Sugata Bose This post pertains to a specific person, Parashuram Purushottam, and is unacceptable as such. Hence, it is being deleted. Do not make posts personal, please. I hope you understand. It is Mr. Chandra Kumar Bose's personal prerogative as to what he should believe in and when he should do it. Human preferences are not to be tampered with in a democracy and in a civilised society. Hence, individual positions regarding any contentious issue can change with time and altered circumstance. In this light we have to respect our fellow being's personal positions regarding matters contentious and cannot fault them or even question them unduly as to why they should do what they should do. It is entirely his personal prerogative, I reiterate. This comment is for all to see and desist from making such objectionable posts which are not in keeping with the spirit of the page that breathes its life in the name of that deathless immortal spirit, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

Sugata Bose Debkanti Moitra We will this time keep hammering home the point till clarity comes and confusion lifts from over this most contentious of national issues, in fact, the most consequential of issues that confronts us as a people. Hope to receive your encouragement and support in pursuance of this cause long back initiated by you and some others like Sen Joseph who has done seminal work in this regard. His has been a voyage of discovery of facts and features related to the Transfer of Power Documents which, when I first read, left me stupefied by the enormity of the betrayal which our founding fathers had done unto us, a befuddlement which has with time faded for sure without clarity of conception having ensued. With persistent effort let us hope that some wisdom will as yet ensue about this perplexing of problems and our position as citizens of independent India or secret subjects of the British Crown will clarify in terms legal for which we need expert advice in the matter.

Sugata Bose Aparna Gujrat No, not even in dream unless dream of Bhagavanji is deemed to be that of Netaji.

Sugata Bose Subhrajyoti Bhowmick Not I, that much is for sure.

Sugata Bose Subhrajyoti Bhowmick Oh, we have to go by media reports. So, where's the certitude of knowledge these days when media houses are so sold out?

Sugata Bose Jayashree Mmishra সত্যের উপস্থাপন । জনজাগরণ । সত্য সম্বন্ধে নিজে অবহিত হয়ে সত্যের সেই বার্তা জনমানসে ছড়িয়ে দেওয়ার ঐকান্তিক প্রচেষ্টা -- এই হল পন্থা, সংশোধনের উপায় ।

Sugata Bose Debkanti Moitra রাজা মহারাজ বিবাহ করেছিলেন জীবনের প্রারম্ভে, চৈতন্যলোকে পদার্পণের প্রাক্কালে । আর নেতাজী কিনা বিবাহ করলেন স্বামীজীর পুণ্যপ্রভার পূর্ণস্পর্শে জীবনের পরিণত পর্বে সকল সামাজিক মর্যাদা উল্লঙ্ঘন করে ? নেতাজীর এই তথাকথিত প্রণয়পরিনতি শুধু প্রমাণের অভাবে পরিত্যাজ্যই নয়, ঐতিহাসিক পটভূমিকায় অবিশ্বাস্য ও অসম্ভব । বিবাহ ব্যক্তিগত ব্যাপার অবশ্যই কিন্তু নেতাজীর ক্ষেত্রে সামাজিক, রাজনৈতিক ও বিশ্বপরিস্থিতির নিরিখে তার এহেন সংঘটন অসম্ভব বলেই মনে হয় । অবশ্য, আপনার বিচার ও সিদ্ধান্তকে সম্মান করেই স্বীয় বক্তব্য পরিবেশন করলাম ।

পুনশ্চ : সে যুগে কি অবৈধ পরিণয়সূত্রে লিপ্ত হওয়া অথবা বিবাহবহির্ভূত সন্তান প্রজনন সামাজিকভাবে গৃহীত ছিল ভারতবর্ষে না আজও আছে? জার্মানিতে এ বিবাহ স্বীকৃত ছিল না । অতএব, কি দাঁড়ালো ? নেতাজীর ন্যায় নৈতিক নিষ্ঠাবান নরপুঙ্গবের এহেন নীতিহিনতা নিশ্চয় আত্মনির্যাতন ভিন্ন আর কিছু নয় বলেই নির্ধারণ করি ।

Sugata Bose She [Rita Banerjee] did say that she had seen him once she started sitting at the feet of Bhagavanji on his cot itself. From hereon she had seen him so many times. She testified to it in the interview.

Sugata Bose Riya Bhattacharya But in the audio interview given to Kunal Bose, Rita Banerjee is on record having said that she did see the face of Bhagavanji.

Sugata Bose Nothing ought to be ignored without investigation. That is not the scientific method. One must take in any given data, critically examine them and then only arrive at a considered conclusion.

Sugata Bose That is an emotional response, perhaps. But the historical approach ought to be to take in all criticism in spirit, put them to the scientific test on the basis of all available relevant data, and then come to conclusions about the veracity or otherwise of a claim. That would put to rest forever certain untoward propositions instead of allowing them to float about forever on account of theirs never having been refuted credibly on the basis of facts.

Sugata Bose Prithwish Gupta It is up to us to do it, not by mudslinging but by careful analysis of what they say and then, on the basis of credible historical evidence, refute their narrative wherever such accounts belie the truth in our considered estimation. In this way and this way alone can we fight an even battle with the forces pitted against us, so to say, and emerge victorious in our crusade for the establishment of the truth. But if we are always carried away by fantasies and fanciful stories ourselves with scant respect for rational rigour in argument or logical endeavour in affirming accounts or analysis of data, then we are culpable to a greater distortion of history than these heretical historians and renegade researchers who shroud truth under the cover of partial representations or plain concoction of tales that need rejection forthwith on the basis of strict rational rigour. But are we ready to take them on? Are there among the so-called defenders of Netaji and his cause able scholars who can stand up to these trained historians who know how to defend their stated positions better? We need to be better informed, better equipped rationally than we right now are or hope to be in the near future, given the crop of intellectual giants we have among us who are posing to be 'defenders of the faith', so to say. Hence, home to work and better preparedness before we hope to take on these perfidious protagonists of pernicious lies that sully the reputation of our beloved leader.

Sugata Bose Let me clarify for all right at the beginning before comments start pouring in that I am not the said person alluded to here as Sugata Bose. He is my namesake and not me. I am quite another Sugata Bose, totally unconnected to the famous Bose family of Netaji Bose and have no blood-bond whatsoever by remotest connection with Netaji and his extended family. Hence, I request all to desist from making this oft-made mistake and allow myself space for my personal identity to subsist in grace. Thank you for your anticipated understanding.

Sugata Bose Subhas Chanda No, not at all. I am used to it. Just wanted to make your post rolling with my comment. Now let the post gain momentum.

Sugata Bose Why have you posted this article without the permission of the author and without acknowledging his authorship? Diganta Sengupta is the author of this piece and you have posted it without acknowledging it. You ought to have simply shared it from his profile and that would have been good enough for the purpose. Instead what you have done is a gross violation of the copyright law and I strongly condemn this move of yours. Immediately acknowledge the author as the rightful intellectual property owner of this essay and make amends for your misdemeanour thus.

Sugata Bose Superb suggestion. Will pass it on. Why don't you write this bit in the form of a post proper?

Sugata Bose Ashis Kumar Basu Nonetheless, you must write. Let emotional effusions be not construed as sentimental nonsense for in the richness of emotions are often wedded to truth the best strands of intellectual work of an order higher than what the handiwork of mere rational rigour can attain to.

Sugata Bose সুন্দর রচনা । সুচিন্তিত, সুবিন্যস্ত পরিবেশন । ভাববার কথা যথার্থই । রচনা উপস্থাপন করে প্রতিশ্রুতি পূর্ণের জন্য ধন্যবাদ । আশা রাখি আরো অনেক রচনাপ্রাপ্তির ।

পুনশ্চ : আপনার রচনাশৈলী রাবীন্দ্রিক ধারায় ঢালা, কবির ছাপ পরিষ্কার পরিস্ফুট কোথাও কোথাও ।

Sugata Bose Riya Bhattacharya শুধু সম্ভবই নয়, সত্য সংঘটন ।

Sugata Bose Devjit Santra এখানে কমেন্ট অংশে ঐ সংযোগসূত্রটি দিন সকলের জ্ঞাতির জন্য ।

Sugata Bose মোবাইল থেকে সূত্রটি খুলছে না কোন কারণে । ডেস্কটপ থেকে পরে চেষ্টা করে দেখব । কিন্তু সত্য উদ্ঘাটন করতে হবে প্রথমে এই দীক্ষার ব্যাপারে ।

Sugata Bose Devjit Santra কিন্তু ওঁদের দাবির সত্যাসত্য বিচার করা আগে প্রয়োজন, তাই না ?

Sugata Bose Devjit Santra ওঁদের কি কোনো প্রমাণ আছে এবিষয়ে ?

Sugata Bose Swami Brahmananda did not ever spiritually initiate Subhas Chandra Bose, although, in Varanasi he had blessed him once while giving prophetic directions about his future life as a servant of the nation.

Sugata Bose Sayan Das Read a part of it [Swami Sankarananda by Dr. Biswanath Chakrabarty] but have never heard that Netaji was initiated by Swami Brahmananda, although, Netaji did admit that he did receive Raja Maharaj's grace, in not so many terms as receiving spiritual initiation though, when he confided the same to his co-confined in jail, Narendra Narayan Chakrabarty, if I am not entering into a memory lapse of sorts here. And how about the references the author of this article has cited, including the reference from the Collected Works of Netaji published in Bengali by Ananda Publishers?

Sugata Bose Debasis Sen You must verify this with Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. They have the records of their initiates.

Sugata Bose Debasis Sen But I am sure Netaji would have testified to it had it been so as you affirm.

Sugata Bose Shyamadas Mukherjee Then why are you engaging in such fruitless activity of commenting here instead of busying yourself with pertinent research work which would illumine seekers like us?

Sugata Bose But Diganta, they have given the references to substantiate their claim. Ought we to reject it before verifying with such reference material?

Sugata Bose Diganta Sengupta But what about the reference from Vol. 1 of Netaji Collected Works published in Bengali by Ananda Publishers as the author of this article claims? Ought one not to verify the veracity of the claim by checking with the pertinent source and then arrive at one's conclusion?

Sugata Bose Diganta Sengupta I see. I have not got the Bengali edition of the said Collected Works of Netaji by Ananda Publishers and will have to go by your word for the while before I can check it out with Debaprasad Bhattacharya who can inform me about it.

Sugata Bose Diganta Sengupta Grand.

Sugata Bose Sayan Das Read a part of it but have never heard that Netaji was initiated by Swami Brahmananda, although, Netaji did admit that he did receive Raja Maharaj's grace, in not so many terms as receiving spiritual initiation though, when he confided the same to his co-confined in jail, Narendra Narayan Chakrabarty, if I am not entering into a memory lapse of sorts here. And how about the references the author of this article has cited, including the reference from the Collected Works of Netaji published in Bengali by Ananda Publishers?

Sugata Bose Dhananjay Pal সর্বরকম তথ্যই দিয়ে থাকি । নেতাজী সংক্রান্ত, তাই প্রাসঙ্গিক । অবশ্য, যদি এ সংবাদটি মিথ্যা বলে প্রতিপন্ন হয়, তাহলে তার যাথার্থ আর থাকবে না ও তার প্রাসঙ্গিকতাও লোপ পাবে ।

Sugata Bose শ্যাম বেনেগাল শ্রীঅনুকুলচন্দ্রের ছবিটি তাঁর চলচ্চিত্রে দেখালেন কেন তাহলে?

Sugata Bose Sayan Das What sort of aspersion on someone is this? Is this civilised talk? Or are you a medical practitioner who is advertising his cause and seeking wholesome patients for furthering his profession?

Sugata Bose Prashanta Dasgupta This sort of cutting jokes on others may be your puerile pastime but certainly is not mine that I will spend any length of time in responding to such raw humour.

Sugata Bose Sayan Das You are getting me wrong right through. I have nowhere said that Janakinath Bose and Prabhavati Devi were initiated devotees of Sri Anukulchandra but that the post says so. So, where does all this altercation arise regarding my views when I have not expressed any? The best way to expose a lie, if there be one, is to factually expose it and not on the basis of indiscriminate accusations and assertions. If you are intent on undoing the pertinent points of dispute in the essay, you are welcome but for that you better concentrate on the post proper and not on me or any other by the way for that will be distracting for your endeavour in exposure of the alleged lie.

Sugata Bose Sayan Das If you think so, your estimation of Netaji is rather frail and poor. He is a premier soul which no Sugata Bose can insult or denigrate. He is beyond the realm of such aspersion or profanity thrust on him. Yes, his fanatical devotees may deem it otherwise who are only bent upon casting foolish aspersions on others themselves. Hence, your argument falls flat as I will continue to post all material related to Netaji, fake or otherwise, for them to be deliberated on and rejected or accepted if they be true. But my posting such will be based on my reaction at the moment of doing so which I can assure you and all like you, who may be perchance having apprehensions as to my intent, that it will be in good intent only and never with the remotest idea or mischief-mongering to denigrate the great hero of India and all colonised peoples throughout the world.

Sugata Bose But Italy had conquered Europe which is not the case with India. India has rather been conquered and has lost landmass and heritage sites with it.

Sugata Bose Sayan Das Is this civilised language, I just ask you this? And who gives you the right to cast aspersions on me, may I ask?

Sugata Bose Sayan Das Who is spreading lies? This post may carry features that may not match with facts in which case civility of discourse deems it a sine qua non to rationally refute the pertinent points of factual inaccuracy and not to indulge in this sort of personal vilification which is counterproductive for the issue itself. To assume superior devotion to Netaji as is the case these days with so many of his fanatical followers is not quite in keeping with his own exemplary living and extraordinary restraint in debate or discussion despite such an enormity of opposition and enmity that he had to face at the hands of his colleagues in the Congress. Hence, instead of advising me as to the limits of my freedom in posting facts or myths, as the case may be unwittingly in the latter instance, I would rather counter-suggest that you go back to your study and read more on Netaji so that you may be able to imbibe some of his lustrous attributes and emerge a better human being with a better appreciation of others and their due linkages to your own esteemed self which lies, unfortunately, in tatters today owing to your lack of restraint in thought and speech.

Sugata Bose Sayan Das Now you are being incorrigible and this cannot be worthy of you to do so. So, come off it and see reason. Try to understand that this essay is not the fruit of my authorship and it has been posted to trigger discussion as to the veracity or otherwise of its contents for it has been doing the rounds on social media elsewhere which has been brought to my notice by one concerned individual who wished that its contents be busted.

Sugata Bose Anirban Chanda To trigger discussion on contentious issues that remain unresolved in many a mind so that men may arrive at a better understanding of these from the pertinent facts and features afforded by many to the same. Thus, clarity will come and confusion diminish which is expressly one of the purposes of any social group, be it online or offline.

Sugata Bose Anirban Chanda I welcome all such discussions as well provided they are conducted in a manner that is in line with norms of civility and democratic discourse devoid of foul-mouthing others. Also, rationality ought to prevail and pertinent facts afforded to the said discussion. I hope to have clarified my position to your eminent satisfaction.

Sugata Bose I cannot recall the content of the comment. Perhaps, I had agreed with your comment or appreciated your difference in point of view with respect to mine. Hence, I may have respectfully refrained from commenting back.

Sugata Bose Subhrajyoti Bhowmick All materialists since believe the way the communists do in this regard since ancient times, strands of materialism being prevalent in every age in lesser or greater degree, recorded or unrecorded.

Sugata Bose That is because this was 1938 when Bose was elected Congress President for the first time after Nehru had served in that office already for four years, first in 1929 and 1930, and then in 1936 and 1937. So, appearances could be deceptive that way and judgement would require justification by factual reasoning as well. However, if you are making a subjective observation based purely on facial appearance, skin glow, look of the eye and other like aspects, then it is a different matter as it is a personal perspective unique to the observer even if corroborated by other observers with a similar perception.

Sugata Bose How could Justice Mukherjee make this error?

Sugata Bose Yes, absolutely so. Let us begin here itself.

Sugata Bose Superb, Riya. Present this comment as a post, please, and attach a suitable photograph, in fact, this very photograph after downloading it, so as to embellish the post and give it the due pertinence. [Reference : Early signs of the INA. The future Supreme Commander of the Indian National Army in bud...Written by Sugata Bose]

Sugata Bose Abhijit Ray Alright. Henceforth, you shall not be tagged in any disappearance discussion by me in deference to your wish. Accept my regards please.

Sugata Bose Drjayanta Choudhuri একটা ভিডিও করুন জয়ন্ত বাবু এই সব প্রশ্ন তুলে ও তার সম্ভাব্য উত্তর দেওয়ার চেষ্টা করে ।

Sugata Bose Indranil Bhattacharjee প্রমাণ লোপাটে সত্য চাপা পড়বে না বলছেন?

Sugata Bose Indranil Bhattacharjee শুধু অপেক্ষার ওপর অপেক্ষমান কী এই সত্য উদ্ঘাটন ?

Sugata Bose Rather a linear writing exercise with surface statements that are well-known and punctuated with grammatical errors and wrong usage of words. No in-depth analysis whatsoever, just a surface skimming of things. Sad to see the plight of a paper famed for the impeccable diction of its panel of writers that today could print such a pedestrian piece about the prophet and the patriot.

Foreword to post written by Sugata Bose [ Ref. The Statesman article 'Netaji and Swamiji' written by an ex-student of Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya
https://www.thestatesman.com/opinion/netaji-and-swamiji-1502862496.html?fbclid=IwAR15AkV50psvzw3CCrWRIZzgnp0Ocpsf9d_2tmCoM4R0Z3PK2Hi-LxhaZN8 ]

Sugata Bose Riya Bhattacharya They were the young guns, as you put in, but in a sinking polity the world over amidst general cultural degradation, we no more have these young guns sacrificing their all for human freedom. Instead we have young goons in plentiful supply these days and the seeds of such proliferate across nations and cultures, across social strata and tiers of the academic hierarchy. Culture is on the decline and with it humanity in every sense of the word, in all its nuanced implications. [Ref. The accused in the supplementary Lahore Conspiracy Case, those interned in the Lahore Jail.]

Sugata Bose Thanks, Sutanu, for sharing reminiscences from familial source.

Sugata Bose @Chandrachur Ghosh : Your video is very arresting but, if you will not take it as an offence, I will suggest that the room ought to be tidied a bit before you shoot a video. It will give a neater background which will be more pleasing to the eye. After all it is a video and the principle of aesthetics ought to hold good here. Even in earlier videos I have noticed that the room is always unkempt. Unless it is a deliberate ploy to exhibit the informal nature of the address as would be to a familiar one, say, a dear friend or a kith and kin, in which case I will have nothing more to say, do take care of this element in future videos. Otherwise, it is a fine performance with humour and sarcasm nailing the adversary like anything and pinning him down with scant respite for respiration free. Thank you for your monumental effort and my good wishes for your future endeavours in book-writing and bringing to the fore thus of unknown material for all of us to read and profit by.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMt0uFRwZLs&t=782s

Sugata Bose Subhas Chanda Meditate deep and you will find many a colluding culprit. Do you not know that there are some who speak words of wisdom from the very land that looted our motherland, and advise us on our patriotic stance while enjoying the fruits of such loot? Are you not aware of these despicable ones who trade in patriotism and then proceed to question the credentials of others, their commercial motives and intentions, while themselves remaining mired in material acquisitions begotten at the expense of a billion barbecued countrymen with retrospective effect dating from their predecessors who the British looted and molested of all means of even the barest survival as in the Bengal Famine? How will you solve the disappearance mystery if you must be so afforded this simplest of solutions that dangles before the eye for all of us like a sore that these Anglophiles are despite their tallest pretensions to the contrary? Think deep, meditate, reflect, cogitate, do what you will but identify these false faces, these betrayers of the motherland who carry out their tirade on us in soft and fair means which are rotten to the core, though, just as their British masters are, and we like lame lambs must gather at their feet to offer our submissions while they in return offer their boots to us.

Sugata Bose Diganta Sengupta Sharpen your wits, son. Else, with a blunted instrument, how are you going to solve the seemingly unfathomable disappearance mystery of you God?

Sugata Bose Soma Dutta Good point. But Bhagavanji also addressed Rita Banerjee in Bengali once when he said 'Jar desh thaktey desh nei...' and Mrs. Banerjee would have surely picked up from that the Hindustani accent of Bengali. So, perhaps, the matter remains unresolved.

Sugata Bose It is being stated here in this video by Anuj Dhar and Chandrachur Ghosh that Netaji had a romantic alliance with Emilie Schenkl and had fathered a daughter outside of wedlock by the name Anita. This is a calumny cast on the unimpeachable character of Netaji and if the genuine followers of Netaji do not promptly act to refute these allegations by making counter videos effectively, then their marriage-progeny narrative will be here to stay, winning more and more adherents to it. Hope this reaches the ears of the concerned ones and they do something about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEiF9m-RAY&t=454s

Sugata Bose A host of fallacious logic being forwarded to uphold the marriage-progeny narrative. Anuj Dhar makes frequent errors in reasoning but Chandrachur Ghosh is more deft in deflection of counter-arguments.

Sugata Bose Anuj Dhar says that Gumnami Baba spoke Calcacian Bangla. One wonders at the refinement of his diction and that of Chandrachur Ghosh, too, who seconded it immediately afterwards. It is disturbing to see the decline in culture overall in society today whose illustration we often behold in the manner of speech of these researchers when it comes to their addressing Gumnami Baba. Must we then presume that the days of gentlemanly culture and sufficient civic restraint in speech are gone for good?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ResdObtINMM&t=940s

Sugata Bose Here also Anuj Dhar's fallacious statements hold no ground but Chandrachur Ghosh seems wiser and avoids undue errors.

Sugata Bose See how beautifully the initial Russian section of the interview in this video has been shot and edited. This is the way to do it so that the point made may be hammered home leaving no room for in incoherence or incompleteness of statement attempted to be made. This ought to be a pointer to our India-based researchers as to how to make a video, crisp and clear in statements made, rational and articulately so as to leave no room for loose ends of logic furnished or evidence laid out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-GC1mGDuok&t=42s

Sugata Bose 'Not two but with a thousand hands' -- this deification of woman and the primeval energy manifesting through her form could pass into the English language as a quotable quote. And, indeed, it is, now I realise. Bankimchandra says so in Vandemataram. 'Disaptakoti bhujairdha ... '. But your idea is freshly conceived for all are the conduits of the Divine and inspiration comes through in the form of words and images through the minds of all in so far they are capable of feeling its pulse and expressing it in tangible terms. But the original impulse is from antiquity in some remotest times when an ancient poet like the modern Bankimchandra Chatterjee or today's Sharmistha Chatterjee may have conceived it and given utterance to this synthesis of the Divine and the human, the Cosmic Mother and the earthly mother.

That history ever repeats itself is an oft-quoted saying but is not too often understood in its deeper philosophical connotation. The same truth which is the foundation of the universe is the basis for the individual as well. Herein the microcosm and the macrocosm meet, arms locked in holy embrace where the germ of creation passes through from the infinite to to the finite inscrutably along its interface that seemingly separates the absolute from the phenomenal. Mother expresses Herself through Her myriad forms in a myriad manner, controlling Her boundless energy to make way for Her magic manifestation in limited material terms. And, yet, the connections to roots are not cut and when the earthly mother in her multidimensional moods and manners, in her cares and controls, exhibits that element of her limitless maternal love, the Divine Mother is reflected in her as her umbilical source.

A fair endeavour of yours, Sharmistha, in times of declining culture when we ought to go back to what our mother had taught us, babes in her arms seeking the divine data in terrestrial terms, in caress, in kiss, in loving embrace that enfolded us with the liquid delight of immortality which in due course we must recover as we meander through the labyrinth of life.

Sugata Bose @Abhishek Sanyal : I have always posted all sorts of posts and essays that have included all angles of Netaji's life prior to and post his disappearance and have never been bigoted with respect to any particular view. Neither do I make such corrosive comments as Gumnami Baba being a hoax and then conveniently, to avoid stick from a myriad critics, remove such comments. I respect Netaji and all sages and saints and, so, I refrain from making such rough remark against someone who is considered by many as Netaji in ascetic's garb living incognito. I also do not quit the scene quickly fearing reprisals for I am brave enough to face the consequences of my comments or observations in posts made by me. As administrator I never am authoritarian as Avijit Banerjee has above alleged. I am just another ordinary member of this group and no more, although I happen to administer it and keep it in order. Many of the members are one-sided in their approach to the disappearance issue and are dogmatic upholders of any one of of the three major theories doing the rounds. There are the aircrash adherents, the Russian angle adherents and the Bhagavanji believers. There is perpetual dissension between the first and the last theorists and quite a bit of animosity between them. This fanatical adherence degenerates to diatribe instead of debate and quite a deal of misunderstanding by members which is often thrust on me. For instance, if I allow a post which is not to the liking of the vocal majority, say, on the aircrash theory or on Anita Pfaff, then I am pulled up in much the same manner as you tend to dismiss the Gumnami Baba as 'a hoax'. This fanaticism is the increasing problem in society at large today whose reflection is seen here in this group as well. Hence, before you approve of my post as worthwhile as in this case, please refrain from making remarks as others may find offensive, especially when it concerns a monk who they believe was/is Netaji and who they accord a like reverence, if not more.

Sugata Bose Avijit Banerjee Please stop being peremptory in your suggestions. It is my personal prerogative as to what I will post and as to why. Fanaticism will find no place in this group.

Sugata Bose Avijit Banerjee Your intellectual paucity not only is surprising but shocking, too. Your fanatical stance proves your attitude towards what otherwise would be deemed as the affording of all available data to members. Your comment bespeaks of your attitude and you are welcome either way, to stay or to leave, as you please, but not so to advise me rudely in the manner you did in the first place and now in a much worse manner yet again.

Sugata Bose This escape story is also being contested by some. I invite them to join in and counter this narrative if they please.

Sugata Bose That is genuine unconditional love that seeks essential principles and is not swayed into altered estimation on account of extraneous factors.

Sugata Bose Sonu Mazumder আপনারা নিজ নিজ ক্ষেত্রে তৎপর হন, জেগে উঠুন, তাঁরা এসে পড়বেন, একথা নিশ্চিত জানবেন ।

Sugata Bose 
পিতৃচরণে প্রণত,
পিতার আশীষে ধন্যা,
সৌভাগ্যবতী দুহিতা,
ভট্টকেশবকন্যা !

Soma Dutta Because they believed that Netaji had married and fathered a child. However, only a section of the Bose family believed it to be so. The rest debunked the narrative as a heinous plot hatched to denigrate Netaji.

Sugata Bose I wonder why people do not view this video and learn something about Anita's perspectives on Netaji instead of only commenting about her parentage. In viewing it something may be learnt, is it not so? We must ever strive to increase our fund of knowledge for that is the only way for expansion of our personalities and saving it from stagnation. Sri Ramakrishna used to say that as long as he lived, so long he learnt. Let us abide by the Master's direction and dedicate ourselves to the pursuit of knowledge from every source instead of only engaging in vain disputation that has but a dead end in self-confirmation of long-held biases and beliefs, preferences and prejudices. This does not mean that I am opposed to debate and discussion or disputing a terrible wrong that has been perpetrated against Netaji and is being propagated online for gaining ground in the public mind. Far from it. I am all day long myself battling against such perfidies and exhorting others to join in the fray with me but what I intend to say here is that men must go beyond the cover to decide upon the merit of a book and surface estimation born out of preconceptions will further knowledge in a subject by no way. Hence, all videos are worth more watching than disputing about their caption, so to say, unless, of course, one finds them utterly distasteful for viewing. In such a case fruitless talk will not further the case of getting to know more in any manner.

Sugata Bose Diganta Sengupta Give them at your pleasure, give them at your leisure. But see to it that the hour is not gone when the rays shine and humanity's last lap of life is run, last bouts fought and done. Let measure for measure the queries come but may they arrive while there light be some.

Sugata Bose Aditi Mazumder That is fine. Do contribute some write-ups to this group and help embellish its content.

Sugata Bose Aditi Mazumder Indians rooted to the culture of the land, its heritage that is largely enshrined in verbal terms in the Sanskrit language absence of whose knowledge cuts us off from our roots.

Sugata Bose Prabal Ranjan Paul Indians rooted to the culture of the land, its heritage that is largely enshrined in verbal terms in the Sanskrit language absence of whose knowledge cuts us off from our roots.