THEY WROTE SO WELL
Nehru's literary style is more fluid but Netaji's is deeper in thought-content. The Mahatma's writing style is most arresting, though. It instantly catches the reader's attention and glues his mind on to what the author says. But the effect is short-lived because of the shallowness and the hollowness of the message and the sweeping conclusions that are drawn by him without regard to both existent reality and philosophical soundness of statement.
Nehru's analysis and assessment of a situation is much more rationally sound and devoid of fantastic notions arbitrarily thrust on the reader. His is a refined European brain, so to say, but lacking in much depth or insight, though.
Netaji's thoughts are profound, although, they lack the lucid expression of a Nehru. His style is prosaic and combative rather than flowing and peaceful. There is a jerk in his writing as if the vehicle of communication is moving along a rough terrain.
But despite it all, they all wrote so well. Nehru's flowing poetry, Gandhiji's arresting style and Netaji's power-packed prose, they all depicted the times in so many shades and colours, so many contours that we are now able to draw historical perspectives from so many credible sources. The analysis and understanding must be ours, the seeing through fault lines and the faintest fractures in bud so that we may draw our necessary conclusions about the history of the freedom movement and not be guided by a dominant sole perspective in doing so.
Netaji's was a masterful use of prose with an equal profundity in its philosophical content. His style is terse, brisk and authoritative, much like his concentrated self, his dynamic and dominant personality. He draws freely from his rich reserve of philosophical knowledge but he does not hesitate to make departures from such classical standpoints as he gives a free rein to his articulate announcements of his philosophical position on the contentious and conflicting issues of the day related to colonial consequence and all its ilk.
Written by Sugata Bose
Nehru's literary style is more fluid but Netaji's is deeper in thought-content. The Mahatma's writing style is most arresting, though. It instantly catches the reader's attention and glues his mind on to what the author says. But the effect is short-lived because of the shallowness and the hollowness of the message and the sweeping conclusions that are drawn by him without regard to both existent reality and philosophical soundness of statement.
Nehru's analysis and assessment of a situation is much more rationally sound and devoid of fantastic notions arbitrarily thrust on the reader. His is a refined European brain, so to say, but lacking in much depth or insight, though.
Netaji's thoughts are profound, although, they lack the lucid expression of a Nehru. His style is prosaic and combative rather than flowing and peaceful. There is a jerk in his writing as if the vehicle of communication is moving along a rough terrain.
But despite it all, they all wrote so well. Nehru's flowing poetry, Gandhiji's arresting style and Netaji's power-packed prose, they all depicted the times in so many shades and colours, so many contours that we are now able to draw historical perspectives from so many credible sources. The analysis and understanding must be ours, the seeing through fault lines and the faintest fractures in bud so that we may draw our necessary conclusions about the history of the freedom movement and not be guided by a dominant sole perspective in doing so.
Netaji's was a masterful use of prose with an equal profundity in its philosophical content. His style is terse, brisk and authoritative, much like his concentrated self, his dynamic and dominant personality. He draws freely from his rich reserve of philosophical knowledge but he does not hesitate to make departures from such classical standpoints as he gives a free rein to his articulate announcements of his philosophical position on the contentious and conflicting issues of the day related to colonial consequence and all its ilk.
Written by Sugata Bose
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