Sugata Bose
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Sugata Bose
How about their PTSD aspersion cast on the venerable sage?
Sugata Bose Swapan Kumar Ghosh স্বপনবাবু, এতদিন জ্ঞানচক্ষু শুনে এসেছি, আজ চৈতন্যচক্ষু, এ এক নতুন কথা শিখলাম | ধন্যবাদ আপনাকে আমার শব্দভাণ্ডারে এই নবসংযোজনের জন্য |
Sugata Bose Debkanti Moitra Brilliant. It is such an apt explanation.
Sugata Bose Sanjay Choudhry Yes, there are. But would you vouch to be one such? If so, cone along and join us in this crusade for the resurrection of the truth about Netaji and the freedom struggle.
Sugata Bose But what is the alternative narrative that may account for the 'true' great escape?
Sugata Bose But may be there is some truth in these stories as well. Who knows?
Sugata Bose Diganta Sengupta Right. But the gaps in the game are great.
Sugata Bose আরে না না । বানানবিষয়ক বক্তব্যটি নিজ বাসভবনে বহাল তবিয়তে বজায় থাকলে বস্তুত বন্ধুরা বিনয়সূচক বাধোবাধো ভাব অতিক্রম করে বিপুলবিক্রমে এই শব্দসংস্কারে যত্নবান হবেন । তাই, থাক না বক্তব্যটি এই বর্ণমালার বনে, তার নির্যাসটুকু রইবে আমার মনে । মন্তব্যটি মহৎ কারণ তার মর্মার্থ তাই । অতএব, বাসভবনে যথাস্থানে সুরক্ষিত থাক বক্তব্য, এইভাব পোষণ করি মাত্র । বন্দে মাতরম্ !
Sugata Bose Yes, they ought to but right now the 'historians' who are challenging the official narrative thus far by the so-called hired historians of the political dispensation at the helm of affairs, are such a bunch of semi-literate fools with scant knowledge of historical facts and endowed with such insufficient rationality that the chronicling of history afresh would be a worse caricature of history than childhood cartoons make of characters historical. This I state, having read, studied and heard some of these 'better historians' of the day. It will be most meet if brilliant students take to the study of history with this view to chronicling it correctly. Only then will this grand project which lies in wait be fulfilled.
Sugata Bose Bhagatram Talwar betrayed Netaji. It was not the other way round which, of course, considering Netaji's high moral stature, is unthinkable and impossible at that.
Sugata Bose Superficial and sectional. Makes no sense for a historian to suppress the real differences between Bose and Gandhi and so make a sham of an analysis where emotions rule the roost and incisive interpretation of history takes the backseat. Better historical acumen is expected of one who apparently represents the cause of Netaji before the wide world.
Sugata Bose [ VINAYAK DAMODAR SAVARKAR ] : Savarkar remains an enigmatic case in India's freedom struggle with much of his actions that were blatantly liable for being termed anti-Indian now getting an altered reading where he had apparently held Hindu interest high such as his avowed support for the British war effort at the height of WW II. Savarkar apparently wanted the Hindus to reorient themselves once more in the kshatriya spirit and get themselves into a robust position to face the fanatical Muslim League who were demanding the Partition of the motherland. In his view the Muslims, thus, were a bigger threat for the Hindus in the long-term than the British who he conjectured would at any rate be forced to leave the land sooner or later owing to brewing historical circumstances. But the Muslims, according to Savarkar, with their better martial preparedness owing to their greater number of recruits already in the British Indian Armed Forces relative to the Hindus, posed the greater challenge to Hindu emancipation from a thousand year slavery to alien occupation and rule. Thus, Savarkar's idea was to get the Hindus into the martial mode and what better opportunity was there before them than their recruitment into the rank and file of the British Indian forces while the war was on and getting them invaluable fighting experience at the different theatres of the war then. This, he reckoned, would arm the Hindus with the martial strength to combat the divisive and fanatical Muslims who were hell-bent on partitioning the land and, in the altered scenario, keeping the majority community under their subjugation this way or that. All these are my personal readings into Savarkar's motives and nothing political or absolute as such.
Sugata Bose [ GANDHI, NEHRU, BOSE -- MUTUAL RESPECT ] : Perhaps, there is so moment to some of the observations of the author regarding Netaji's vision of a future India which has sadly been belied in the decades ensuing independence. But the references to the Nehru-Netaji warmth and the oft-quoted Gandhi-Netaji mutual reverence are as usual attempts to cover up the corrosive features of the relationship when it came to political differences between the Gandhi-Nehru brigade and that of Netaji and his trusted lieutenants. That the former did force the betrayed President of Tripuri out of the Congress and by default out of India by incapacitating him in terms of effective campaigning from the major political platform of the country cannot be set aside in one's wishful mode of making it appear that all was nice and sweet between them. If rancour there was none apparently that made it to the people's notice, it was Netaji's greatness and grace that prevented such ugliness from making headlines and allowing the British to further driving the divisive devices through the rank and file of the Congress who were fighting for unity at a most treacherous hour of national disunity with the communal parties breathing down their backs. When at a later date just prior to independence the question of Patel being preferred by Congress for the Prime Minister's portfolio came up, Nehru did not show such generosity as Bose did for maintenance of the solidarity of the Congress. These and so many other issues of Netaji's sublimity of sacrifice for the nation were epitomised by the Mahatma calling him 'a patriot among patriots' and such issues must not be glossed over by emotionalising the public over the magnanimity these seminal leaders showed each other verbally for whatever intent they may have done so. That Netaji was not allowed to function as Congress President was the machination of the Mahatma for which he can never be forgiven even if the former maintained a glorious reverence for the Sage of Sabarmati. History has to be read dispassionately and not through the tinted glasses of either hyper-admiration nor through through prejudiced ill-feeling giving vent to roguish remarks lacking in factual substance, but must be interpreted in the light of a vaster understanding of the imperatives of the hour that impelled each of the leading players to play their roles the way they did and the hidden motives that prompted them to do so. Our own preferences, predilections in passing judgement and our own prejudices may have no role whatsoever in determining the eventual outcome of such analyses and their being chronicled as new historical data. In this lies the right reading of history and by the application of this scientific methodology must the narrative of the freedom struggle be re-written for the critical study of our future generations. In consequence let me reiterate that wishful thinking is not the mother of proper historical study and authorship thereof. It is rigour of rationality -- which must include intuitive understanding as well, which in turn must be substantiated in rational terms thereof -- that is the guiding principle in the reading and the recording of history.
Sugata Bose Who is being referred to here as the father of India? Be explicit. Otherwise, ambiguity will be interpreted either as reticence in admission or as a ploy to feel the pulse of the community here while keeping oneself at arm's length from vociferous disputation with adversaries in debate should it incur the wrath of the majority of the members.
Sugata Bose Even though this is a watch party, you may file up your questions. They will be forwarded to Drjayanta Choudhuri who may be requested to answer them in his grace.
Sugata Bose True it is that those members of the Bose family who today slight the Mukherjee Commission as a sham of an enquiry did not themselves have the time or feel the necessity to appear before the Commission and record their observations. Such apathy then to appear before the Commission will today be construed by the people as queer and must rob them of their privilege to indiscriminately criticise the proceedings of the said Commission now. This sort of double standard in behaviour is reprehensible and deserves condemnation when the aforesaid parties seem to reserve for themselves the right to criticise a Government-appointed Commission of Enquiry in the least civil of terms.
Sugata Bose Beautiful. The raised head, the open chest and the facial expression all have captured the man in essence. This portrait, Dyutimay Banerjee, speaks not only of your talent but also of your great reverence for the premier personality of the age. Keep at your craft, chiselling it, enriching it and embellishing it thought gleaned from the best literature of the world and from the recesses of your heart and soul, and bring forth such expression in contour and colour that will sing the glory of these great men who have sacrificed their all for the furthering of the cause of human evolution whose fruits we enjoy today with wild abandon, careless of even a thought for the seminal ones who have so preceded us. Draw portraits likewise of the redoubtable revolutionary, Rash Behari Bose and add on to your artistic repertoire for progress of the cause of the resurgence of India among the comity of nations.
Sugata Bose Dyutimay Banerjee You are so young and, yet, such a skilful hand? God bless you, Dyutimay, and read the whole of my aforesaid appreciation of you and your craft in the previous comment which you, perhaps, have partially read, for I have have enlarged it in extension of my appreciation of your artistic attribute with which you have been so gifted. A point to note here, Dyutimay, is that I myself do not know how to draw a human face that does not look grotesque, far less a full figure of a personality like Netaji. However, my pen spares no means to express my adoration of all that have passed from the human mind on to paper, so what if they have been born of the brains of other men.
Sugata Bose Diganta, see how Netaji catches them young even as Swamiji had caught your hero in his web early. This is called the charisma of the greatest of men, a feature you will not find in men famous alright and historically eminent, too, but not quite of the stature of these personalities of perennial premier presence in the minds and hearts of men.
Sugata Bose Diganta Sengupta I see. I have discovered him today itself and wish to inspire him to take up seriously the study of Netaji once his Board Examinations are over, and, so, take up the work of of making serious studies of Netaji and his life and times through the tip of his pencil, pen and those wonder brushes of his.
Sugata Bose Diganta Sengupta Hit it right on the hilt.
Sugata Bose Barendra Bhusan Nandi এই ঐতিহ্য । নেতাজীও ওই নামেই সম্বোধন করতেন । ভাষার মাধুর্য রক্ষাকল্পে এহেন প্রয়োগ । শব্দবৈচিত্র বজায় থাকে এভাবে ।
Sugata Bose Mrinal Paul You are right. This is the AICC Session of 1939. Jawaharlal Nehru, Bhulabhai Desai and Rajendra Prasad are here seen in close conference.
Sugata Bose Subhadeep Chakraborty Please be civil in addressing another member. I do not think you are doing justice to the person by calling her names. I think it is unwarranted on your part to be abusive. Please refrain from such remarks as is insulting to another person who, after all, is your own self in another guise, going by the principles of the Sanatan Dharma which was Netaji's mainstay in life. Sonu Mazumder, I apologise to you on behalf of the gentleman who has been abusive towards you and request you to keep helping others like you have done me, notwithstanding the occasional brickbats that may befall you from unseemly quarters with little sympathy for human beings who they disagree with on whatsoever count. After all, there is a socially acceptable way of expressing difference of opinion and that, certainly, is not the abrasive way in verbal articulation. Forgive me for being the unwitting cause of it all and do forget the episode and move on.
Sugata Bose Depends on what you think of people who quote statistics right, that is, from your perspective.
Sugata Bose I have, and I ought to, considering that they are also Bengalee-speaking people and are converts to Islam from the Sanatan Dharma.
Sugata Bose Subhas Chanda রহস্য বুঝুন, নইলে যে সবই বৃথা ।
Sugata Bose Ashis Kumar Basu And Jatindranath Mukherjee had Swami Vivekananda as his life's primary spiritual and revolutionary influence and his sustained inspiration.
Sugata Bose Ratan Pal বাবাজীবনদ্বয়, PTSD, পাণিগ্রহণ ইত্যাদির প্রচারে ব্যস্ত, বাণিজ্যে রত। গবেষণার প্রবৃত্তি কই? সময় কোথা?
Sugata Bose Bhaskar Sen Sharma, contribute this to the group as a separate post. It will draw the attention of a greater number of members as it duly deserves. Your English is impeccable, style heroic, in the manner of the epics, and passion percolating through the words spelt out like igneous lava that will metamorphose unto a higher transformation. It is a pity that you write so less and it is a marvel that I keep on exhorting you to do the needful that will help illumine the hearts and minds of of our countrymen with those delightful doses of the lyrical medicine that you administer infrequently to insufficiently cure the malady of national shame, the heretical chronicling of the history of the freedom struggle. Your mighty pen that you wield like a monarch wielding his sword, the emblem of his sovereign self, must come to the rescue of millions who will take inspiration from the forthright manner in which you articulate truth. Hence, I request you yet again to put your considerable writing power to sufficient use for the welfare of our country and for the sustenance of seekers like us who feast on your writings with gay abandon.
Sugata Bose A bit of reflection and the relation will be clear. Indolence cannot help comprehend these symbolic references.
Sugata Bose For a change what is yours?
Sugata Bose Avi Shek, I have been forwarding my views copiously but my style often is cryptic and requires diligent reading and intelligent at that to decipher. So, hone up your talents and get going to unravel the mystery that sure shall unfold before your observant reading. It will require a deal of perseverance to discover others' perspectives on one's subject of interest and if you spare time and effort to do the same, you shall be blessed with information galore from diverse quarters. As regards my view on Nehru, it is inconsequential. Read Nehru's works to know him better.
Sugata Bose Lovely response. Do keep responding like this, erudite and articulate as you are and with a deal of devotion to our dedicated ones of seminal sacrifice and labour of love for the nation. However, the issue goes deeper than meets the eye apparently and with greater study in this matter will reveal a sinister design that had worked its way to malign the leader of the nation with a marriage that cannot be substantiated even in remotest terms with either authentic documentation or establishment as to which Emilie Schenkl Netaji had been united in holy wedlock. But that is an area that may not be here entered into by the author in the form of comments and counter-comments and has earlier been copiously dealt by him in elaborate posts. Till then, when more in this line he should chance to write on, let us bide by time and befriend each other in luminous exchange of ideas and thoughts that will embellish this group page in good measure.
A final request to your honoured self. Do contribute some essays and articles and write-ups periodically here on this group page to help flourish it and to make the subject of Netaji and the revolutionaries more vibrant for all to engage in and, in absorption, to profit by. Thank you for your perceptive observation and looking forward to like responses in the future as well.
P.S. A point more and this is to say that there is provision in the essay itself for the possibility of the aforesaid conjugal connection which may have missed your attention while making your comment. The inscrutable ways of the Lord and the penchant of the Divine Mother for making the seemingly impossible come to pass have been well-mentioned in the write-up which makes the author's assertion a personal conviction which is by no way absolute or binding in terms of inviolable truth. It is a conviction that has reasonable foundations of its own but is in no way the final word on the marital matter of the master leader.
So far as the use of the word 'blaspheme' is concerned, it is a literary usage to emphasise the degree to which Netaji had been lifelong committed to celibacy which makes his departure from his self-avowed path almost blasphemous. This word has its nuances not all of which are well apprehended by the reader -- such has been the author's experience in the past and which has now been corroborated here as well.
Sugata Bose The poet and the patriot. The making of a nation. The great Indian race -- multiple communities, diverse cultures commingling to form a single people.
Sugata Bose Well said, and it is worth remembrance for those who advise superciliously the Hindus to observe a greater secularism than is in vogue.
Sugata Bose Well said, and it is worth remembrance for those who advise superciliously the Hindus to observe a greater secularism than is in vogue.
Sugata Bose @ Swami Adidevananda : No, I am suggesting this only to the avowed devotees and followers of Netaji who in Bangladesh are trying to bring about greater consciousness about Netaji and his ideals of freedom of an integrated India and not a partitioned one. These are votaries for democracy along secular lines and do not subscribe to the fanatical ideology of Islam nor are they happy with the state of Bangladesh increasingly yielding to the demands of the mullahs and the maulvis who in the Islamic State of Bangladesh are ever pushing their fanatical ideology to extreme limits where sustenance of diverse culture is becoming more difficulty by the day. It is these sensible human beings, who are in a minority but who have clarity of thought and loftiness of human idealism, that I am addressing to bring about a reversal of political state from the theocratic to the secular. Perhaps, this may sound puerile to you but there is no harm in trying to muster the forces of goodness against the prevailing evil that has befallen Bangladesh since 1987 when General Ershad declared it Islamic. Hoping for some positive inputs from my Bangladeshi friends in this regard.
Sugata Bose True enough in the theocratic sense but some of my Bangladeshi friends are, indeed, great devotees, or followers, if you so like to dub it, of Netaji and vouch to bring about a better state of things in their country which, alas, was ours a while ago.
Sugata Bose @ Swami Adidebananda : I do not post to gain or lose people's confidence. That is neither part of my agenda, for I have no political affiliation with any party whatsoever, nor am I motivated to moving the masses in a delirious direction that is regressive. I believe that there are many who will read deeper into my posts than has been unfortunately my lot from bigoted individuals who care not to see more than what the surface meaning appears to their shallow insight into the nature of things. Each of my posts are forged red-hot in the furnace of my creative instincts and inspiration and can stand on their own without seeking majority or minority support as the case may be. Whether people will care to read them and profit by them will not be determined by preferential personalities with their predilections and prejudices that persuade them to pass peremptory judgement on them but will rather be the lot of readers, patient and perceptive, who can delve deeper into them to determine their worth in the final analysis. Misapprehension of the intent of a post in a cursory glance through it, as is the wont of shallow intellectualism these days in the age of of proliferating social media interaction, is the reason why such responses are so pervasive. It will as yet take some more decades of literary uplift before better understanding ensues and criticism becomes creatively constructive in place of its present day status of disparaging negation.
Sugata Bose Debjit Banerjee There are deeper implications in the post which, perhaps, have eluded your attention in the bustle and din of life. Will discuss them when we shall meet and chat over cups of beverages of your choice.
Sugata Bose Brilliant insight into Indian history, Debkanti Moitra.
Sugata Bose Saumy Mishra Those were the exigencies of the times. But this post caters to a different plane of thinking that pertains to future humanity, perhaps, millenia hence. Also, quotations have their contexts and such must be remembered. Read Swamiji's Jnana Yoga to comprehend him in totality.
Sugata Bose Saumy Mishra Not quite. Science used to be nationalised till the other day but has reached universal standards. Same will be with philosophy after millenia, perhaps, as Swamiji conjectured. Perhaps, large numbers of people will belong to all denominations of belief and perception, understanding and realisation which is why the concept of the Ishta plays such an important part in the Sanatan Dharma. In his celebrated San Francisco lecture on his second tour to the West, Swamiji reckons that it will take several thousands of years of human evolution before such large numbers of people are able to apprehend the universal impersonal truth.
Sugata Bose Ashis Kumar Basu Rightly said. Many are of the opinion, though, that it was Tilak and then Aurobindo Ghosh who led the movement for revolutionary armed struggle.
Sugata Bose Ashis Kumar Basu You have hammered home the point. Thank you for your response and kudos for your clarity of conception.
Sugata Bose স্বপন চৌধুরী Very good answer, succinct and apt.
Sugata Bose It is a shame that it should be so as Nehru deemed it in his 'wisdom'. This is, perhaps, the only revolutionary army of liberation, to my reckoning, that has been thus damned as traitorous and discharged from regular service in such a humiliating way. In connection with this, please recall the roles of the People's Liberation Army of China and the Red Army of Russia and the honour in which they were held by their respective countries after the successful conducting of revolutions there, courtesy the armed action of the said armies. No wonder India suffered the debacle that she did in 1962 at the hands of China, the landmass she lost to Pakistan and to China, and the continuous hegemony of China in the region and the irritation of a perfidious Pakistan that she has had to endure ever since this dastardly act of criminalising the revolutionary war that the Indian National Army waged against the occupying British imperial power in India. That we, free Indians, choose to endure mutely this shame is a pointer to the loss of manhood in us and calls for a reawakening to a sense of real national pride as quickened in this nation by its leader nonpareil, Netaji Bose. How we are going to respond to his clarion call for the real freedom of our motherland, integrated and whole and not fractured into partitions, will determine our destiny for sure. If we rise to his call for service and sacrifice in the truest sense, we shall survive as a nation. Else, obliteration lies in wait for us.
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Rash Behari Bose needs study in greater detail and his Japanese connections explored better for the right recounting of the IIL and the INA narrative in a seamless manner.
Sugata Bose True it is that he was so, but this was the first major instance that drew the attention of the Raj which he was destined to end in India and, in consequence, in the world. The attention of the day became the alarm of the days to come and he was permanently kept either in prison or in exile to immobilise him and his seditious activity. But such a mover of men could scarce be kept in bars and like the epic hero he broke through all barriers to arrive in Berlin and Tokyo to muster support for his cause of liberation of the motherland. Singapore and Saigon and Rangoon waited on him to offer him hospitality for his cause as he marched through the jungles of Burma and the hills of Manipur to arrive at the gates of India triumphant like an epic hero. That historical imperatives dictated terms otherwise and his army of liberation had to withdraw is the tragedy of our nation but that is the subject of another discussion altogether.
Sugata Bose What a revelation ! Thanks, Utpal Babu, for helping clarify the mind of long-held misconceptions.
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Certainly, the nation is greater than any individual who has been born of its soil, heritage and culture and been nourished by the same. The nation, being the summation of all the people who have rested in its bosom, surely cannot have a father or a mother as such but is itself the parent perennial to all its children. Hence has it been adored as the mother by savants of all ages and climes and in certain countries like Germany as the father. Therefore, to label Gandhi as 'Father of the Nation' is a misnomer but Netaji, in a fit of inspiration and overwhelming love for the motherland did address Gandhiji with the aforesaid epithet. And the label has stuck just like his other and equally inaccurate description in the 'Mahatma' which by no stretch of imagination he was. Why Netaji did call Gandhiji what he did is a matter for long deliberation and I am not feeling inclined to entering into an elaborate analysis and appraisal of the call here. Hence, I desist for the while and defer discussion on this issue to another day.
Sugata Bose True, how on earth? He was cornered in the end and did not know which way to run to in order to avoid interrogation. But I believe his was a casual slip of tongue which he then felt hard-pressed to defend and, of course, could not.
Sugata Bose Whether it denigrates Netaji's image or not cannot be the criterion for discussing or not discussing so long as the truth about Netaji's final fate is being hunted within the ambit of such discussion. An investigative programme cannot play party to reputation, however holy, and must make way for such deliberations despite pious protestations by devotees galore to the contrary.
Sugata Bose Aparna Gujrat No, not even in dream unless dream of Bhagavanji is deemed to be that of Netaji.
Sugata Bose Trust yourself instead, always. That is the surest way to truth.
Sugata Bose Swamiji used to say, "God helps those who do not help themselves.'' By this he meant that God bears the burden of those who rely completely on His grace, having obliterated all traces of ego and its consequent sense of self-sufficiency and self-dependence. It is in line with a verse of the Geeta where Krishna says that the Lord bears the burden of such a self-surrendered soul who has given up all his worries and is completely at peace in his unfailing and constant communion with the Lord. The above adage of God helping those who help themselves is a western conception that has gained currency through the English language wherever the language is prevalent. However, Swamiji was only illustrating a point, that of self-surrender and Providential help, and it need not be construed in any other absolute sense of an injunction on self-help in any way. The harmony of self-dependence and dependence on God is eventually achieved when one realises the spiritual oneness of one's own self with the Divine Self. There in union and integration with the Lord does one perceive the truth of what Swamiji said in sharp distinction to the idea in vogue in quite the reverse order.
Sugata Bose Maj Gen Gagandeep Bakshi raises a very pertinent question. ''How did Netaji come from Siberia to Faizabad?'' None among the panellists answered it or got the opportunity to do so. Watch from 37.15 min for a minute or two.
Sugata Bose How did he move? On foot? By what mode or vehicle? What about the requisite passports?
Sugata Bose Diganta Sengupta Hopefully they have it. Lots of gaps and loopholes in the entire narrative. Needs filling to give it substance. Otherwise it will not be legally tenable ever.
Sugata Bose Diganta Sengupta Few are interested in questioning them or finding their solutions. Most wish to believe or to disbelieve without asking the proper questions. Opinions galore abound but reasonableness is a rarity among the followers or the detractors alike. Personal predilection holds the ground better it seems than rational enquiry into the truth of the disappearance issue. Faith dictates rather than empirical evidence and sound analysis of data available.
Sugata Bose You write beautifully but your penchant for use of numerals mars the beauty of it somewhat. Please do not use them -- such as '4' for 'for' and '2' for 'to'. I really feel it will make your writing much more pleasing to the eye.
Sugata Bose Brilliant. I would still request you to write in full every word and not use short forms like 'n' for 'and' etc. for your writings are beautiful and this shortening, to my mind, somewhat mars the beauty of presentation.
Sugata Bose Perfect. Communism the world over has inflicted no less brutality than fascism and its Nazi variant. And Stalin and Mao who the communists adore have led this worldwide terror. Even Lenin and Trotsky have terrorised people, murdered and destroyed the body and hopes of men in the name of liberating them. Their high-sounding historical materialism and their diabolical dialectical materialism which they fanatically imposed on masses of men were no less fanatical than the worst Christian crusades or Islamic jihads. And to top it with Pol Pot, Ceausescu, Brezhnev and a host of others who tyrannised over their own men and camouflaged imperialist objectives in the name of proletariat revolution, the list becomes an endless tale of totalitarian barbarism in the name of scientific liberation of the flesh of man from its capitalist captivity. I am no admirer of capitalism either, brutal as it is in its silent crushing way, life-sucker as it is in its drainage of resources upward from the suffering body to the evil brain of society. What I am emphasising is this : human brutality camouflages under myriad high-sounding guises, be they of doctrinaire religion or political ideology, but in effect it ever is a manifestation of primeval barbarism. So, communists need not feel that they are in the privileged position of political piety to reserve for themselves the right to denigrate Netaji as a fascist when the hero was indubitably not so and when their own historical record is a tale of communist carnage which no philosophical justification can absolve of the horrendous crimes involved against the flesh and the spirit of man.
Sugata Bose Please read the post properly. The word 'was' says it all. And please read up what the communists of the day had spoken about Netaji and what Jyoti Basu had later said by way of rectification of a 'historic blunder' in the estimation of Netaji. Also keep your supercilious political suggestions to yourself. First understand the import of a post and then comment to heart's content.
Sugata Bose Prasun Acharya : This post is by way of stating that detractors of Netaji who have historically dubbed him a fascist, especially the Anglo-Americans and Indian communists of the day, need to look into their own historical alliances during the Second World War before they assign to Netaji any such epithet.
Sugata Bose Prasun Acharya I do not subscribe to any particular political ideology as such. But to stifle opinion is not my way and I reserve equally my right to express mine as I do appreciate your expression of yours. But to invariably misunderstand the import and implication of a post seems to be the prerogative of the educated man these days in proliferating social media participation and it makes posting an arduous exercise involving unnecessary wastage of time and energy.
Sugata Bose Prasun Acharya I harbour no ill-feeling towards the communists for I am myself very much an anti-capitalist and am contrarily disposed towards all its blood-sucking scientific mechanism of exploitation of the masses which reduces them to beasts of burden barely surviving an animal existence on an earth which ought to be the common property of all. Therefore, to come to sweeping conclusions about my mindset is uncalled for on your part, especially, since you have mighty meagre data to base your assertion on. I detest brutality of all sorts against the body and the mind of man and this ought to have been amply clear from my earlier comments. However, you politicised it, not I and, therefore, the burden of depoliticising it is yours as well, not mine.
Sugata Bose Strange it is that here there is no one bothering to comment. This clearly highlights that few care to understand the import of a post and are only interested in responding to whatever they find politically absorbing for the hour. A better sense of history would be more desirable in gathering momentum for the cause we stand for here in the name of Indian history whose brightest luminary was the hero who is the monarch of this page. That there should be silence here does not augur well for the movement, I am convinced after deliberate reflection. History, if not responded to in its fullest sweep, will do scant justice to Netaji. Hence, I exhort members to respond to all pertinent posts in an even style instead of selective clamour over rotting issues of current politics. Here at least we ought to delve sufficiently into history to enrich the discourse. Only then shall the page come alive in its true colour, that of the spectrum which our liberator so luminously radiated.
Sugata Bose Ashis Kumar Basu And it is a very real evaluation, too, so far as I am concerned and in so far my knowledge goes about this affair, for in keeping with such knowledge that I have been able thus far to glean, I wholly concur with your assessment.
Sugata Bose Aparna Gujrat Very well said. I wholly agree with you on several counts. Maj Gen Gagandeep Bakshi will be better able to cite evidence for his assertion of Netaji's alleged death in a Siberian cell.
Sugata Bose Please do not regard this as a political post. It contains many mentions of Netaji and his ideals. Hence, it finds residence here. Let none infer any political intent in it in so far my posting it here is concerned. Do not be misled by the title of the post. That is typical of the media houses which make mountain out of molehill for their advertisement. [Ref. Chandra Kumar Bose's interview at ANM News / DailyHunt]
Sugata Bose Naveena CK Keep reflecting instead of asking me and you will comprehend the import of the post. I cannot be always at the beck and call of every enquirer.
Sugata Bose Saumy Mishra It is not my pastime to keep explaining every cryptic note that I post. Those who wish to cogitate and comprehend them may do so and those who cannot need not. They can simply ignore them.
Sugata Bose Tanmoy Bhattacharya For those who care to read, reflect and realise, not for those who rail and revile, and relish merely the crust of things with no interest in accessing the kernel or the core of anything. Superficiality has pervaded the land and rendered culture sterile.
Sugata Bose Please read the ever enlarging article that is in the brewing in the distillery of my mind and is seeking fresher expression by the hour.
Sugata Bose Saumy Mishra Read Vivekananda, the entire set of his Complete Works, cover to cover, to begin with. Then fresh tips will follow. Tolstoy had famously said, "Vivekananda's English is perfect." So, you see, there is a point in this pointer by me towards the adoption of a measure effective enough to improving your adequately good English further and I sincerely hope you will heed it. In it will lie not only improvement of diction but addiction to the Swami's message as well which in turn will conduce to mighty spiritual good, the eventual purpose of your terrestrial sojourn.
Sugata Bose Thank you, Suresh Jhaji, for reading through this considerably long essay that is even now lengthening unto its natural end which shall come, hopefully when the revolutionary movement and its inspirational figure in Ramakrishna-Vivekananda has been duly covered. But that is yet a long way from fruition.
Sugata Bose JUST IN CASE YOU CHOOSE TO MISS IT
A must watch for all. Animated discussion here, spiced up by altercations that have got personal at times to a fault. Hilarious, nonetheless, and, so, heightening the debate to good effect unless you are too much of a puritan of sorts who cannot take in modern market talk in due stride and, yet, manage to derive profit out of such popular discourse that runs these days as television journalism. I repeat, it is a must watch for the enlightening part no less than the entertaining part as well with humour sprayed about in delicious amounts to add flavour to the delicacy served here.
Foreword written by Sugata Bose
Asit Guin Please contribute your posts to this group. Contrary opinion is necessary for discussion, deliberation and debate. Otherwise, this page will become a monotone. However, well-researched write-ups are better. Otherwise, fake news proliferates, false information befuddles common conception.Sugata Bose
How about their PTSD aspersion cast on the venerable sage?Sugata Bose Swapan Kumar Ghosh স্বপনবাবু, এতদিন জ্ঞানচক্ষু শুনে এসেছি, আজ চৈতন্যচক্ষু, এ এক নতুন কথা শিখলাম | ধন্যবাদ আপনাকে আমার শব্দভাণ্ডারে এই নবসংযোজনের জন্য |
Sugata Bose Debkanti Moitra Brilliant. It is such an apt explanation.
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Sanjay Choudhry Yes, there are. But would you vouch to be one such? If so, cone along and join us in this crusade for the resurrection of the truth about Netaji and the freedom struggle.Sugata Bose But what is the alternative narrative that may account for the 'true' great escape?
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But may be there is some truth in these stories as well. Who knows?Sugata Bose
Diganta Sengupta Right. But the gaps in the game are great.Sugata Bose
আরে না না । বানানবিষয়ক বক্তব্যটি নিজ বাসভবনে বহাল তবিয়তে বজায় থাকলে বস্তুত বন্ধুরা বিনয়সূচক বাধোবাধো ভাব অতিক্রম করে বিপুলবিক্রমে এই শব্দসংস্কারে যত্নবান হবেন । তাই, থাক না বক্তব্যটি এই বর্ণমালার বনে, তার নির্যাসটুকু রইবে আমার মনে । মন্তব্যটি মহৎ কারণ তার মর্মার্থ তাই । অতএব, বাসভবনে যথাস্থানে সুরক্ষিত থাক বক্তব্য, এইভাব পোষণ করি মাত্র । বন্দে মাতরম্ !Sugata Bose
Yes, they ought to but right now the 'historians' who are challenging the official narrative thus far by the so-called hired historians of the political dispensation at the helm of affairs, are such a bunch of semi-literate fools with scant knowledge of historical facts and endowed with such insufficient rationality that the chronicling of history afresh would be a worse caricature of history than childhood cartoons make of characters historical. This I state, having read, studied and heard some of these 'better historians' of the day. It will be most meet if brilliant students take to the study of history with this view to chronicling it correctly. Only then will this grand project which lies in wait be fulfilled.Sugata Bose
Bhagatram Talwar betrayed Netaji. It was not the other way round which, of course, considering Netaji's high moral stature, is unthinkable and impossible at that.Sugata Bose Superficial and sectional. Makes no sense for a historian to suppress the real differences between Bose and Gandhi and so make a sham of an analysis where emotions rule the roost and incisive interpretation of history takes the backseat. Better historical acumen is expected of one who apparently represents the cause of Netaji before the wide world.
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[ VINAYAK DAMODAR SAVARKAR ] : Savarkar remains an enigmatic case in India's freedom struggle with much of his actions that were blatantly liable for being termed anti-Indian now getting an altered reading where he had apparently held Hindu interest high such as his avowed support for the British war effort at the height of WW II. Savarkar apparently wanted the Hindus to reorient themselves once more in the kshatriya spirit and get themselves into a robust position to face the fanatical Muslim League who were demanding the Partition of the motherland. In his view the Muslims, thus, were a bigger threat for the Hindus in the long-term than the British who he conjectured would at any rate be forced to leave the land sooner or later owing to brewing historical circumstances. But the Muslims, according to Savarkar, with their better martial preparedness owing to their greater number of recruits already in the British Indian Armed Forces relative to the Hindus, posed the greater challenge to Hindu emancipation from a thousand year slavery to alien occupation and rule. Thus, Savarkar's idea was to get the Hindus into the martial mode and what better opportunity was there before them than their recruitment into the rank and file of the British Indian forces while the war was on and getting them invaluable fighting experience at the different theatres of the war then. This, he reckoned, would arm the Hindus with the martial strength to combat the divisive and fanatical Muslims who were hell-bent on partitioning the land and, in the altered scenario, keeping the majority community under their subjugation this way or that. All these are my personal readings into Savarkar's motives and nothing political or absolute as such.Sugata Bose
[ GANDHI, NEHRU, BOSE -- MUTUAL RESPECT ] : Perhaps, there is so moment to some of the observations of the author regarding Netaji's vision of a future India which has sadly been belied in the decades ensuing independence. But the references to the Nehru-Netaji warmth and the oft-quoted Gandhi-Netaji mutual reverence are as usual attempts to cover up the corrosive features of the relationship when it came to political differences between the Gandhi-Nehru brigade and that of Netaji and his trusted lieutenants. That the former did force the betrayed President of Tripuri out of the Congress and by default out of India by incapacitating him in terms of effective campaigning from the major political platform of the country cannot be set aside in one's wishful mode of making it appear that all was nice and sweet between them. If rancour there was none apparently that made it to the people's notice, it was Netaji's greatness and grace that prevented such ugliness from making headlines and allowing the British to further driving the divisive devices through the rank and file of the Congress who were fighting for unity at a most treacherous hour of national disunity with the communal parties breathing down their backs. When at a later date just prior to independence the question of Patel being preferred by Congress for the Prime Minister's portfolio came up, Nehru did not show such generosity as Bose did for maintenance of the solidarity of the Congress. These and so many other issues of Netaji's sublimity of sacrifice for the nation were epitomised by the Mahatma calling him 'a patriot among patriots' and such issues must not be glossed over by emotionalising the public over the magnanimity these seminal leaders showed each other verbally for whatever intent they may have done so. That Netaji was not allowed to function as Congress President was the machination of the Mahatma for which he can never be forgiven even if the former maintained a glorious reverence for the Sage of Sabarmati. History has to be read dispassionately and not through the tinted glasses of either hyper-admiration nor through through prejudiced ill-feeling giving vent to roguish remarks lacking in factual substance, but must be interpreted in the light of a vaster understanding of the imperatives of the hour that impelled each of the leading players to play their roles the way they did and the hidden motives that prompted them to do so. Our own preferences, predilections in passing judgement and our own prejudices may have no role whatsoever in determining the eventual outcome of such analyses and their being chronicled as new historical data. In this lies the right reading of history and by the application of this scientific methodology must the narrative of the freedom struggle be re-written for the critical study of our future generations. In consequence let me reiterate that wishful thinking is not the mother of proper historical study and authorship thereof. It is rigour of rationality -- which must include intuitive understanding as well, which in turn must be substantiated in rational terms thereof -- that is the guiding principle in the reading and the recording of history.Sugata Bose
Who is being referred to here as the father of India? Be explicit. Otherwise, ambiguity will be interpreted either as reticence in admission or as a ploy to feel the pulse of the community here while keeping oneself at arm's length from vociferous disputation with adversaries in debate should it incur the wrath of the majority of the members.Sugata Bose Even though this is a watch party, you may file up your questions. They will be forwarded to Drjayanta Choudhuri who may be requested to answer them in his grace.
Sugata Bose True it is that those members of the Bose family who today slight the Mukherjee Commission as a sham of an enquiry did not themselves have the time or feel the necessity to appear before the Commission and record their observations. Such apathy then to appear before the Commission will today be construed by the people as queer and must rob them of their privilege to indiscriminately criticise the proceedings of the said Commission now. This sort of double standard in behaviour is reprehensible and deserves condemnation when the aforesaid parties seem to reserve for themselves the right to criticise a Government-appointed Commission of Enquiry in the least civil of terms.
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Beautiful. The raised head, the open chest and the facial expression all have captured the man in essence. This portrait, Dyutimay Banerjee, speaks not only of your talent but also of your great reverence for the premier personality of the age. Keep at your craft, chiselling it, enriching it and embellishing it thought gleaned from the best literature of the world and from the recesses of your heart and soul, and bring forth such expression in contour and colour that will sing the glory of these great men who have sacrificed their all for the furthering of the cause of human evolution whose fruits we enjoy today with wild abandon, careless of even a thought for the seminal ones who have so preceded us. Draw portraits likewise of the redoubtable revolutionary, Rash Behari Bose and add on to your artistic repertoire for progress of the cause of the resurgence of India among the comity of nations.Sugata Bose
Dyutimay Banerjee You are so young and, yet, such a skilful hand? God bless you, Dyutimay, and read the whole of my aforesaid appreciation of you and your craft in the previous comment which you, perhaps, have partially read, for I have have enlarged it in extension of my appreciation of your artistic attribute with which you have been so gifted. A point to note here, Dyutimay, is that I myself do not know how to draw a human face that does not look grotesque, far less a full figure of a personality like Netaji. However, my pen spares no means to express my adoration of all that have passed from the human mind on to paper, so what if they have been born of the brains of other men.Sugata Bose
Diganta, see how Netaji catches them young even as Swamiji had caught your hero in his web early. This is called the charisma of the greatest of men, a feature you will not find in men famous alright and historically eminent, too, but not quite of the stature of these personalities of perennial premier presence in the minds and hearts of men.Sugata Bose
Diganta Sengupta I see. I have discovered him today itself and wish to inspire him to take up seriously the study of Netaji once his Board Examinations are over, and, so, take up the work of of making serious studies of Netaji and his life and times through the tip of his pencil, pen and those wonder brushes of his.Sugata Bose
Diganta Sengupta Hit it right on the hilt.Sugata Bose
Barendra Bhusan Nandi এই ঐতিহ্য । নেতাজীও ওই নামেই সম্বোধন করতেন । ভাষার মাধুর্য রক্ষাকল্পে এহেন প্রয়োগ । শব্দবৈচিত্র বজায় থাকে এভাবে ।Sugata Bose Mrinal Paul You are right. This is the AICC Session of 1939. Jawaharlal Nehru, Bhulabhai Desai and Rajendra Prasad are here seen in close conference.
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Subhadeep Chakraborty Please be civil in addressing another member. I do not think you are doing justice to the person by calling her names. I think it is unwarranted on your part to be abusive. Please refrain from such remarks as is insulting to another person who, after all, is your own self in another guise, going by the principles of the Sanatan Dharma which was Netaji's mainstay in life. Sonu Mazumder, I apologise to you on behalf of the gentleman who has been abusive towards you and request you to keep helping others like you have done me, notwithstanding the occasional brickbats that may befall you from unseemly quarters with little sympathy for human beings who they disagree with on whatsoever count. After all, there is a socially acceptable way of expressing difference of opinion and that, certainly, is not the abrasive way in verbal articulation. Forgive me for being the unwitting cause of it all and do forget the episode and move on.Sugata Bose Depends on what you think of people who quote statistics right, that is, from your perspective.
Sugata Bose I have, and I ought to, considering that they are also Bengalee-speaking people and are converts to Islam from the Sanatan Dharma.
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Subhas Chanda রহস্য বুঝুন, নইলে যে সবই বৃথা ।Sugata Bose
Ashis Kumar Basu And Jatindranath Mukherjee had Swami Vivekananda as his life's primary spiritual and revolutionary influence and his sustained inspiration.Sugata Bose
Ratan Pal বাবাজীবনদ্বয়, PTSD, পাণিগ্রহণ ইত্যাদির প্রচারে ব্যস্ত, বাণিজ্যে রত। গবেষণার প্রবৃত্তি কই? সময় কোথা?Sugata Bose
Bhaskar Sen Sharma, contribute this to the group as a separate post. It will draw the attention of a greater number of members as it duly deserves. Your English is impeccable, style heroic, in the manner of the epics, and passion percolating through the words spelt out like igneous lava that will metamorphose unto a higher transformation. It is a pity that you write so less and it is a marvel that I keep on exhorting you to do the needful that will help illumine the hearts and minds of of our countrymen with those delightful doses of the lyrical medicine that you administer infrequently to insufficiently cure the malady of national shame, the heretical chronicling of the history of the freedom struggle. Your mighty pen that you wield like a monarch wielding his sword, the emblem of his sovereign self, must come to the rescue of millions who will take inspiration from the forthright manner in which you articulate truth. Hence, I request you yet again to put your considerable writing power to sufficient use for the welfare of our country and for the sustenance of seekers like us who feast on your writings with gay abandon.Sugata Bose
A bit of reflection and the relation will be clear. Indolence cannot help comprehend these symbolic references.Sugata Bose
For a change what is yours?Sugata Bose
Avi Shek, I have been forwarding my views copiously but my style often is cryptic and requires diligent reading and intelligent at that to decipher. So, hone up your talents and get going to unravel the mystery that sure shall unfold before your observant reading. It will require a deal of perseverance to discover others' perspectives on one's subject of interest and if you spare time and effort to do the same, you shall be blessed with information galore from diverse quarters. As regards my view on Nehru, it is inconsequential. Read Nehru's works to know him better.Sugata Bose
Lovely response. Do keep responding like this, erudite and articulate as you are and with a deal of devotion to our dedicated ones of seminal sacrifice and labour of love for the nation. However, the issue goes deeper than meets the eye apparently and with greater study in this matter will reveal a sinister design that had worked its way to malign the leader of the nation with a marriage that cannot be substantiated even in remotest terms with either authentic documentation or establishment as to which Emilie Schenkl Netaji had been united in holy wedlock. But that is an area that may not be here entered into by the author in the form of comments and counter-comments and has earlier been copiously dealt by him in elaborate posts. Till then, when more in this line he should chance to write on, let us bide by time and befriend each other in luminous exchange of ideas and thoughts that will embellish this group page in good measure.A final request to your honoured self. Do contribute some essays and articles and write-ups periodically here on this group page to help flourish it and to make the subject of Netaji and the revolutionaries more vibrant for all to engage in and, in absorption, to profit by. Thank you for your perceptive observation and looking forward to like responses in the future as well.
P.S. A point more and this is to say that there is provision in the essay itself for the possibility of the aforesaid conjugal connection which may have missed your attention while making your comment. The inscrutable ways of the Lord and the penchant of the Divine Mother for making the seemingly impossible come to pass have been well-mentioned in the write-up which makes the author's assertion a personal conviction which is by no way absolute or binding in terms of inviolable truth. It is a conviction that has reasonable foundations of its own but is in no way the final word on the marital matter of the master leader.
So far as the use of the word 'blaspheme' is concerned, it is a literary usage to emphasise the degree to which Netaji had been lifelong committed to celibacy which makes his departure from his self-avowed path almost blasphemous. This word has its nuances not all of which are well apprehended by the reader -- such has been the author's experience in the past and which has now been corroborated here as well.
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The poet and the patriot. The making of a nation. The great Indian race -- multiple communities, diverse cultures commingling to form a single people.Sugata Bose Well said, and it is worth remembrance for those who advise superciliously the Hindus to observe a greater secularism than is in vogue.
Sugata Bose Well said, and it is worth remembrance for those who advise superciliously the Hindus to observe a greater secularism than is in vogue.
Sugata Bose @ Swami Adidevananda : No, I am suggesting this only to the avowed devotees and followers of Netaji who in Bangladesh are trying to bring about greater consciousness about Netaji and his ideals of freedom of an integrated India and not a partitioned one. These are votaries for democracy along secular lines and do not subscribe to the fanatical ideology of Islam nor are they happy with the state of Bangladesh increasingly yielding to the demands of the mullahs and the maulvis who in the Islamic State of Bangladesh are ever pushing their fanatical ideology to extreme limits where sustenance of diverse culture is becoming more difficulty by the day. It is these sensible human beings, who are in a minority but who have clarity of thought and loftiness of human idealism, that I am addressing to bring about a reversal of political state from the theocratic to the secular. Perhaps, this may sound puerile to you but there is no harm in trying to muster the forces of goodness against the prevailing evil that has befallen Bangladesh since 1987 when General Ershad declared it Islamic. Hoping for some positive inputs from my Bangladeshi friends in this regard.
Sugata Bose True enough in the theocratic sense but some of my Bangladeshi friends are, indeed, great devotees, or followers, if you so like to dub it, of Netaji and vouch to bring about a better state of things in their country which, alas, was ours a while ago.
Sugata Bose @ Swami Adidebananda : I do not post to gain or lose people's confidence. That is neither part of my agenda, for I have no political affiliation with any party whatsoever, nor am I motivated to moving the masses in a delirious direction that is regressive. I believe that there are many who will read deeper into my posts than has been unfortunately my lot from bigoted individuals who care not to see more than what the surface meaning appears to their shallow insight into the nature of things. Each of my posts are forged red-hot in the furnace of my creative instincts and inspiration and can stand on their own without seeking majority or minority support as the case may be. Whether people will care to read them and profit by them will not be determined by preferential personalities with their predilections and prejudices that persuade them to pass peremptory judgement on them but will rather be the lot of readers, patient and perceptive, who can delve deeper into them to determine their worth in the final analysis. Misapprehension of the intent of a post in a cursory glance through it, as is the wont of shallow intellectualism these days in the age of of proliferating social media interaction, is the reason why such responses are so pervasive. It will as yet take some more decades of literary uplift before better understanding ensues and criticism becomes creatively constructive in place of its present day status of disparaging negation.
Sugata Bose Debjit Banerjee There are deeper implications in the post which, perhaps, have eluded your attention in the bustle and din of life. Will discuss them when we shall meet and chat over cups of beverages of your choice.
Sugata Bose Brilliant insight into Indian history, Debkanti Moitra.
Sugata Bose Saumy Mishra Those were the exigencies of the times. But this post caters to a different plane of thinking that pertains to future humanity, perhaps, millenia hence. Also, quotations have their contexts and such must be remembered. Read Swamiji's Jnana Yoga to comprehend him in totality.
Sugata Bose Saumy Mishra Not quite. Science used to be nationalised till the other day but has reached universal standards. Same will be with philosophy after millenia, perhaps, as Swamiji conjectured. Perhaps, large numbers of people will belong to all denominations of belief and perception, understanding and realisation which is why the concept of the Ishta plays such an important part in the Sanatan Dharma. In his celebrated San Francisco lecture on his second tour to the West, Swamiji reckons that it will take several thousands of years of human evolution before such large numbers of people are able to apprehend the universal impersonal truth.
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Ashis Kumar Basu Rightly said. Many are of the opinion, though, that it was Tilak and then Aurobindo Ghosh who led the movement for revolutionary armed struggle.Sugata Bose
Ashis Kumar Basu You have hammered home the point. Thank you for your response and kudos for your clarity of conception.Sugata Bose
স্বপন চৌধুরী Very good answer, succinct and apt.Sugata Bose
It is a shame that it should be so as Nehru deemed it in his 'wisdom'. This is, perhaps, the only revolutionary army of liberation, to my reckoning, that has been thus damned as traitorous and discharged from regular service in such a humiliating way. In connection with this, please recall the roles of the People's Liberation Army of China and the Red Army of Russia and the honour in which they were held by their respective countries after the successful conducting of revolutions there, courtesy the armed action of the said armies. No wonder India suffered the debacle that she did in 1962 at the hands of China, the landmass she lost to Pakistan and to China, and the continuous hegemony of China in the region and the irritation of a perfidious Pakistan that she has had to endure ever since this dastardly act of criminalising the revolutionary war that the Indian National Army waged against the occupying British imperial power in India. That we, free Indians, choose to endure mutely this shame is a pointer to the loss of manhood in us and calls for a reawakening to a sense of real national pride as quickened in this nation by its leader nonpareil, Netaji Bose. How we are going to respond to his clarion call for the real freedom of our motherland, integrated and whole and not fractured into partitions, will determine our destiny for sure. If we rise to his call for service and sacrifice in the truest sense, we shall survive as a nation. Else, obliteration lies in wait for us.Sugata Bose
Rash Behari Bose needs study in greater detail and his Japanese connections explored better for the right recounting of the IIL and the INA narrative in a seamless manner.Sugata Bose
True it is that he was so, but this was the first major instance that drew the attention of the Raj which he was destined to end in India and, in consequence, in the world. The attention of the day became the alarm of the days to come and he was permanently kept either in prison or in exile to immobilise him and his seditious activity. But such a mover of men could scarce be kept in bars and like the epic hero he broke through all barriers to arrive in Berlin and Tokyo to muster support for his cause of liberation of the motherland. Singapore and Saigon and Rangoon waited on him to offer him hospitality for his cause as he marched through the jungles of Burma and the hills of Manipur to arrive at the gates of India triumphant like an epic hero. That historical imperatives dictated terms otherwise and his army of liberation had to withdraw is the tragedy of our nation but that is the subject of another discussion altogether.Sugata Bose
What a revelation ! Thanks, Utpal Babu, for helping clarify the mind of long-held misconceptions.Sugata Bose
Certainly, the nation is greater than any individual who has been born of its soil, heritage and culture and been nourished by the same. The nation, being the summation of all the people who have rested in its bosom, surely cannot have a father or a mother as such but is itself the parent perennial to all its children. Hence has it been adored as the mother by savants of all ages and climes and in certain countries like Germany as the father. Therefore, to label Gandhi as 'Father of the Nation' is a misnomer but Netaji, in a fit of inspiration and overwhelming love for the motherland did address Gandhiji with the aforesaid epithet. And the label has stuck just like his other and equally inaccurate description in the 'Mahatma' which by no stretch of imagination he was. Why Netaji did call Gandhiji what he did is a matter for long deliberation and I am not feeling inclined to entering into an elaborate analysis and appraisal of the call here. Hence, I desist for the while and defer discussion on this issue to another day.Sugata Bose
True, how on earth? He was cornered in the end and did not know which way to run to in order to avoid interrogation. But I believe his was a casual slip of tongue which he then felt hard-pressed to defend and, of course, could not.Sugata Bose
Whether it denigrates Netaji's image or not cannot be the criterion for discussing or not discussing so long as the truth about Netaji's final fate is being hunted within the ambit of such discussion. An investigative programme cannot play party to reputation, however holy, and must make way for such deliberations despite pious protestations by devotees galore to the contrary.Sugata Bose
Aparna Gujrat No, not even in dream unless dream of Bhagavanji is deemed to be that of Netaji.Sugata Bose
Trust yourself instead, always. That is the surest way to truth.Sugata Bose
Swamiji used to say, "God helps those who do not help themselves.'' By this he meant that God bears the burden of those who rely completely on His grace, having obliterated all traces of ego and its consequent sense of self-sufficiency and self-dependence. It is in line with a verse of the Geeta where Krishna says that the Lord bears the burden of such a self-surrendered soul who has given up all his worries and is completely at peace in his unfailing and constant communion with the Lord. The above adage of God helping those who help themselves is a western conception that has gained currency through the English language wherever the language is prevalent. However, Swamiji was only illustrating a point, that of self-surrender and Providential help, and it need not be construed in any other absolute sense of an injunction on self-help in any way. The harmony of self-dependence and dependence on God is eventually achieved when one realises the spiritual oneness of one's own self with the Divine Self. There in union and integration with the Lord does one perceive the truth of what Swamiji said in sharp distinction to the idea in vogue in quite the reverse order.Sugata Bose
Maj Gen Gagandeep Bakshi raises a very pertinent question. ''How did Netaji come from Siberia to Faizabad?'' None among the panellists answered it or got the opportunity to do so. Watch from 37.15 min for a minute or two.Sugata Bose
How did he move? On foot? By what mode or vehicle? What about the requisite passports?Sugata Bose
Diganta Sengupta Hopefully they have it. Lots of gaps and loopholes in the entire narrative. Needs filling to give it substance. Otherwise it will not be legally tenable ever.Sugata Bose
Diganta Sengupta Few are interested in questioning them or finding their solutions. Most wish to believe or to disbelieve without asking the proper questions. Opinions galore abound but reasonableness is a rarity among the followers or the detractors alike. Personal predilection holds the ground better it seems than rational enquiry into the truth of the disappearance issue. Faith dictates rather than empirical evidence and sound analysis of data available.Sugata Bose
You write beautifully but your penchant for use of numerals mars the beauty of it somewhat. Please do not use them -- such as '4' for 'for' and '2' for 'to'. I really feel it will make your writing much more pleasing to the eye.Sugata Bose
Brilliant. I would still request you to write in full every word and not use short forms like 'n' for 'and' etc. for your writings are beautiful and this shortening, to my mind, somewhat mars the beauty of presentation.Sugata Bose
Perfect. Communism the world over has inflicted no less brutality than fascism and its Nazi variant. And Stalin and Mao who the communists adore have led this worldwide terror. Even Lenin and Trotsky have terrorised people, murdered and destroyed the body and hopes of men in the name of liberating them. Their high-sounding historical materialism and their diabolical dialectical materialism which they fanatically imposed on masses of men were no less fanatical than the worst Christian crusades or Islamic jihads. And to top it with Pol Pot, Ceausescu, Brezhnev and a host of others who tyrannised over their own men and camouflaged imperialist objectives in the name of proletariat revolution, the list becomes an endless tale of totalitarian barbarism in the name of scientific liberation of the flesh of man from its capitalist captivity. I am no admirer of capitalism either, brutal as it is in its silent crushing way, life-sucker as it is in its drainage of resources upward from the suffering body to the evil brain of society. What I am emphasising is this : human brutality camouflages under myriad high-sounding guises, be they of doctrinaire religion or political ideology, but in effect it ever is a manifestation of primeval barbarism. So, communists need not feel that they are in the privileged position of political piety to reserve for themselves the right to denigrate Netaji as a fascist when the hero was indubitably not so and when their own historical record is a tale of communist carnage which no philosophical justification can absolve of the horrendous crimes involved against the flesh and the spirit of man.Sugata Bose
Please read the post properly. The word 'was' says it all. And please read up what the communists of the day had spoken about Netaji and what Jyoti Basu had later said by way of rectification of a 'historic blunder' in the estimation of Netaji. Also keep your supercilious political suggestions to yourself. First understand the import of a post and then comment to heart's content.Sugata Bose
Prasun Acharya : This post is by way of stating that detractors of Netaji who have historically dubbed him a fascist, especially the Anglo-Americans and Indian communists of the day, need to look into their own historical alliances during the Second World War before they assign to Netaji any such epithet.Sugata Bose
Prasun Acharya I do not subscribe to any particular political ideology as such. But to stifle opinion is not my way and I reserve equally my right to express mine as I do appreciate your expression of yours. But to invariably misunderstand the import and implication of a post seems to be the prerogative of the educated man these days in proliferating social media participation and it makes posting an arduous exercise involving unnecessary wastage of time and energy.Sugata Bose
Prasun Acharya I harbour no ill-feeling towards the communists for I am myself very much an anti-capitalist and am contrarily disposed towards all its blood-sucking scientific mechanism of exploitation of the masses which reduces them to beasts of burden barely surviving an animal existence on an earth which ought to be the common property of all. Therefore, to come to sweeping conclusions about my mindset is uncalled for on your part, especially, since you have mighty meagre data to base your assertion on. I detest brutality of all sorts against the body and the mind of man and this ought to have been amply clear from my earlier comments. However, you politicised it, not I and, therefore, the burden of depoliticising it is yours as well, not mine.Sugata Bose
Strange it is that here there is no one bothering to comment. This clearly highlights that few care to understand the import of a post and are only interested in responding to whatever they find politically absorbing for the hour. A better sense of history would be more desirable in gathering momentum for the cause we stand for here in the name of Indian history whose brightest luminary was the hero who is the monarch of this page. That there should be silence here does not augur well for the movement, I am convinced after deliberate reflection. History, if not responded to in its fullest sweep, will do scant justice to Netaji. Hence, I exhort members to respond to all pertinent posts in an even style instead of selective clamour over rotting issues of current politics. Here at least we ought to delve sufficiently into history to enrich the discourse. Only then shall the page come alive in its true colour, that of the spectrum which our liberator so luminously radiated.Sugata Bose
Ashis Kumar Basu And it is a very real evaluation, too, so far as I am concerned and in so far my knowledge goes about this affair, for in keeping with such knowledge that I have been able thus far to glean, I wholly concur with your assessment.Sugata Bose
Aparna Gujrat Very well said. I wholly agree with you on several counts. Maj Gen Gagandeep Bakshi will be better able to cite evidence for his assertion of Netaji's alleged death in a Siberian cell.Sugata Bose
Please do not regard this as a political post. It contains many mentions of Netaji and his ideals. Hence, it finds residence here. Let none infer any political intent in it in so far my posting it here is concerned. Do not be misled by the title of the post. That is typical of the media houses which make mountain out of molehill for their advertisement. [Ref. Chandra Kumar Bose's interview at ANM News / DailyHunt]Sugata Bose Naveena CK Keep reflecting instead of asking me and you will comprehend the import of the post. I cannot be always at the beck and call of every enquirer.
Sugata Bose Saumy Mishra It is not my pastime to keep explaining every cryptic note that I post. Those who wish to cogitate and comprehend them may do so and those who cannot need not. They can simply ignore them.
Sugata Bose
Tanmoy Bhattacharya For those who care to read, reflect and realise, not for those who rail and revile, and relish merely the crust of things with no interest in accessing the kernel or the core of anything. Superficiality has pervaded the land and rendered culture sterile.Sugata Bose Please read the ever enlarging article that is in the brewing in the distillery of my mind and is seeking fresher expression by the hour.
Sugata Bose Saumy Mishra Read Vivekananda, the entire set of his Complete Works, cover to cover, to begin with. Then fresh tips will follow. Tolstoy had famously said, "Vivekananda's English is perfect." So, you see, there is a point in this pointer by me towards the adoption of a measure effective enough to improving your adequately good English further and I sincerely hope you will heed it. In it will lie not only improvement of diction but addiction to the Swami's message as well which in turn will conduce to mighty spiritual good, the eventual purpose of your terrestrial sojourn.
Sugata Bose Thank you, Suresh Jhaji, for reading through this considerably long essay that is even now lengthening unto its natural end which shall come, hopefully when the revolutionary movement and its inspirational figure in Ramakrishna-Vivekananda has been duly covered. But that is yet a long way from fruition.
Sugata Bose
JUST IN CASE YOU CHOOSE TO MISS ITA must watch for all. Animated discussion here, spiced up by altercations that have got personal at times to a fault. Hilarious, nonetheless, and, so, heightening the debate to good effect unless you are too much of a puritan of sorts who cannot take in modern market talk in due stride and, yet, manage to derive profit out of such popular discourse that runs these days as television journalism. I repeat, it is a must watch for the enlightening part no less than the entertaining part as well with humour sprayed about in delicious amounts to add flavour to the delicacy served here.
Foreword written by Sugata Bose
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