21 OCTOBER, 1943, THE DAY NETAJI DECLARED INDIA FREE
This is the most significant moment in the history of our freedom struggle, its climactic point when Netaji announced the formation of the Provisional Government of Free India on the 21st of October, 1943 in Singapore. That is the day we ought to celebrate our Independence Day instead of the nightmarish Day of Dominion when the motherland was granted a truncated subject status within the British Commonwealth of Nations which, experts argue, exists still.
21st October, 1943 was a day of the declaration of freedom and sovereignty which was not the gift of the political masters of India but an independence snatched from the British without consulting them or seeking a compromised rapprochement with them. And this was the shot of the prized moment when India in exile shook off her colonial yoke. But none of the top leaders of the Congress including Gandhi gave credence to it and the cold shouldering it received then continues to this day as year after year we, with great pride and joy, keep celebrating the Dominion Day as Indian Independence Day.
Written by Sugata Bose
This is the most significant moment in the history of our freedom struggle, its climactic point when Netaji announced the formation of the Provisional Government of Free India on the 21st of October, 1943 in Singapore. That is the day we ought to celebrate our Independence Day instead of the nightmarish Day of Dominion when the motherland was granted a truncated subject status within the British Commonwealth of Nations which, experts argue, exists still.
21st October, 1943 was a day of the declaration of freedom and sovereignty which was not the gift of the political masters of India but an independence snatched from the British without consulting them or seeking a compromised rapprochement with them. And this was the shot of the prized moment when India in exile shook off her colonial yoke. But none of the top leaders of the Congress including Gandhi gave credence to it and the cold shouldering it received then continues to this day as year after year we, with great pride and joy, keep celebrating the Dominion Day as Indian Independence Day.
Written by Sugata Bose
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