THE LEADER WHO WAS LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF THE REST
'Inscrutable are the ways of the Lord.' So says the Holy Bible, and so are the ways of this modern God of India and of suppressed and oppressed humanity, for inscrutable are his ways, too, indecipherable even his explicit expressions, loaded as they are with meanings that run their life and term in multiple layers of individual and collective consciousness.
This is the peculiarity of the extreme revolutionaries for freedom. Their method of training by their mentors, their oath of silence and absolute allegiance to the cause, their complete self-effacement at the altar of liberation of the motherland, their vow to remain incognito in the world at large and, so, suffering oblivion from the pages of recorded history, their commitment nonpareil to the cause of driving away the demons of occupation from the sacred soil of the mother they have offered their everything to, all these and so much more in privation, persecution and the observance of purity make these chosen children of the Lord the freshest flowers to be offered at the blessed feet of the Mother who they hailed as their own mother.
Netaji was their ultimate leader as the very honorific given him by East Asians who fought under the banner of the Indian Independence League and the Indian National Army suggest. Their were other leaders as well but this was the one the nation had waited for long centuries as its messiah, for who else delivered the motherland from her shackles, her colonial consequence as her bravest and best son did. Verily is he hailed today by his devotees as the 'Liberator of India', his following swelling their ranks by the day.
Revolutionaries are inscrutable, true, for their very vocation demands absolute secrecy and a solemn commitment to the cause they espouse, and, that too, in terms silent and secret. The common run of revolutionaries -- uncommon even as they are compared to the run of the mill mass of humanity -- are trained into being beyond the reach of ordinary understanding for reasons of security of the revolutionary mission. Their manners and means, modes and methods are so camouflaged, a la secret service agent in today's terms, that they completely merge in their surroundings even as they carry out their secret missions. It is here that espionage plays its massive role, in ensuring the gathering in of data on the enemy to keep a step ahead of it and carry out successful operations. The enemy also -- in our colonial terms, the British Indian Government -- keeps watch over every suspicious move made by the adversary through its chain of spies infiltrating even the ranks of the revolutionaries. How much of vigilance is thus required by the revolutionaries to advance their cause is only a matter of conjecture and one that is not difficult to understand. And if this is the level of vigilance and intelligence expected of the cadres who carry out missions as per the instructions of their planners, how much more of such must be the lot of the leaders who run their men through this labyrinth of revolutionary activity and emerge en masse victorious in the end.
One such leader was Subhas Chandra Bose who his men affectionately called 'Netaji'. He is the subject matter of this rather prolonged essay in the making.
Netaji was, as I have said, light years ahead of the rest of his compatriots in the Congress and even his comrades in his armed struggle for freedom except for the solitary shining figure of that Bose of Nakamuraya, our beloved Rash Behari Bose who proved to be the mentor of the younger Bose Subhas Chandra.
Written by Sugata Bose
'Inscrutable are the ways of the Lord.' So says the Holy Bible, and so are the ways of this modern God of India and of suppressed and oppressed humanity, for inscrutable are his ways, too, indecipherable even his explicit expressions, loaded as they are with meanings that run their life and term in multiple layers of individual and collective consciousness.
This is the peculiarity of the extreme revolutionaries for freedom. Their method of training by their mentors, their oath of silence and absolute allegiance to the cause, their complete self-effacement at the altar of liberation of the motherland, their vow to remain incognito in the world at large and, so, suffering oblivion from the pages of recorded history, their commitment nonpareil to the cause of driving away the demons of occupation from the sacred soil of the mother they have offered their everything to, all these and so much more in privation, persecution and the observance of purity make these chosen children of the Lord the freshest flowers to be offered at the blessed feet of the Mother who they hailed as their own mother.
Netaji was their ultimate leader as the very honorific given him by East Asians who fought under the banner of the Indian Independence League and the Indian National Army suggest. Their were other leaders as well but this was the one the nation had waited for long centuries as its messiah, for who else delivered the motherland from her shackles, her colonial consequence as her bravest and best son did. Verily is he hailed today by his devotees as the 'Liberator of India', his following swelling their ranks by the day.
Revolutionaries are inscrutable, true, for their very vocation demands absolute secrecy and a solemn commitment to the cause they espouse, and, that too, in terms silent and secret. The common run of revolutionaries -- uncommon even as they are compared to the run of the mill mass of humanity -- are trained into being beyond the reach of ordinary understanding for reasons of security of the revolutionary mission. Their manners and means, modes and methods are so camouflaged, a la secret service agent in today's terms, that they completely merge in their surroundings even as they carry out their secret missions. It is here that espionage plays its massive role, in ensuring the gathering in of data on the enemy to keep a step ahead of it and carry out successful operations. The enemy also -- in our colonial terms, the British Indian Government -- keeps watch over every suspicious move made by the adversary through its chain of spies infiltrating even the ranks of the revolutionaries. How much of vigilance is thus required by the revolutionaries to advance their cause is only a matter of conjecture and one that is not difficult to understand. And if this is the level of vigilance and intelligence expected of the cadres who carry out missions as per the instructions of their planners, how much more of such must be the lot of the leaders who run their men through this labyrinth of revolutionary activity and emerge en masse victorious in the end.
One such leader was Subhas Chandra Bose who his men affectionately called 'Netaji'. He is the subject matter of this rather prolonged essay in the making.
Netaji was, as I have said, light years ahead of the rest of his compatriots in the Congress and even his comrades in his armed struggle for freedom except for the solitary shining figure of that Bose of Nakamuraya, our beloved Rash Behari Bose who proved to be the mentor of the younger Bose Subhas Chandra.
Written by Sugata Bose
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