SETTING PERSPECTIVES RIGHT ... 1
THE QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT -- GANDHIJI, NETAJI AND THE GOVERNMENT
The current dispensation at the helm of affairs, despite admitting the fair contribution of Netaji and his INA to the attainment of freedom, like its predecessors in governance of the land, is not content to quit with the 'Quit India' imperative that, to their reckoning, forced the British to quit. After all, the slogan 'Quit India' is catchy and significant in terms of what it verbally implied, although, it failed miserably to deliver the goods in quite the same way as the Mahatma would have endorsed.
The mass violence that erupted across India, subsequent to the Gandhian call and following the arrest of the leader and all his associates in the Congress on account of it, was more in keeping with Netaji's call for armed action which the nation heard with patient expectation via his overseas radio broadcasts from Berlin, Singapore and Rangoon. It was effectively Netaji who was remote-controlling proceedings in India to a large extent thus and playing the role of an active revolutionary Gandhi than the actual passive compromising one resting in the Aga Khan Palace and receiving His Majesty's hospitality. What followed thereafter is well chronicled and the saga unfolded to free India in the way it did.
Yes, it is time to recapture those lost moments of history and enliven them again for posterity to behold and cherish and, so, emerge fitting patriots of the motherland that in chains lies still from 'a million mutinies' [ref. V.S.Naipaul] she yet endures.
Written by Sugata Bose
THE QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT -- GANDHIJI, NETAJI AND THE GOVERNMENT
The current dispensation at the helm of affairs, despite admitting the fair contribution of Netaji and his INA to the attainment of freedom, like its predecessors in governance of the land, is not content to quit with the 'Quit India' imperative that, to their reckoning, forced the British to quit. After all, the slogan 'Quit India' is catchy and significant in terms of what it verbally implied, although, it failed miserably to deliver the goods in quite the same way as the Mahatma would have endorsed.
The mass violence that erupted across India, subsequent to the Gandhian call and following the arrest of the leader and all his associates in the Congress on account of it, was more in keeping with Netaji's call for armed action which the nation heard with patient expectation via his overseas radio broadcasts from Berlin, Singapore and Rangoon. It was effectively Netaji who was remote-controlling proceedings in India to a large extent thus and playing the role of an active revolutionary Gandhi than the actual passive compromising one resting in the Aga Khan Palace and receiving His Majesty's hospitality. What followed thereafter is well chronicled and the saga unfolded to free India in the way it did.
Yes, it is time to recapture those lost moments of history and enliven them again for posterity to behold and cherish and, so, emerge fitting patriots of the motherland that in chains lies still from 'a million mutinies' [ref. V.S.Naipaul] she yet endures.
Written by Sugata Bose
Sugata Bose
Ghosh Gorachand How was Gandhiji the agent of the British exactly as so many people including some researchers claim? Can anyone produce any documentary evidence to this effect? If so, that would be sensational and altering quite the contours of recorded history thus far.
Sugata Bose
Ghosh Gorachand By the way, is your book available in hard copy, that is in book form and not in the kindle edition, and how much would it cost in Indian currency?
Ghosh Gorachand Sugata Bose After publication by Kindle Amazon in 2019, I am donating it (published in 2017) to the academic institution's libraries(Universities, High Schools and Colleges). May be one of my relatives will donate this book to you who is living in Kolkata. She is the member in your FB PG.
Sugata Bose Ghosh Gorachand That would be extremely kind of you, indeed, and a great acquisition for me.
Sugata Bose Ashis Kumar Basu Ironed icon -- lovely ! Is it Patel's statue you are referring to, the Statue of unity?
Ghosh Gorachand How was Gandhiji the agent of the British exactly as so many people including some researchers claim? Can anyone produce any documentary evidence to this effect? If so, that would be sensational and altering quite the contours of recorded history thus far.Sugata Bose
Ghosh Gorachand By the way, is your book available in hard copy, that is in book form and not in the kindle edition, and how much would it cost in Indian currency?Ghosh Gorachand Sugata Bose After publication by Kindle Amazon in 2019, I am donating it (published in 2017) to the academic institution's libraries(Universities, High Schools and Colleges). May be one of my relatives will donate this book to you who is living in Kolkata. She is the member in your FB PG.
Sugata Bose
Ghosh Gorachand That would be extremely kind of you, indeed, and a great acquisition for me.Sugata Bose
Ashis Kumar Basu Ironed icon -- lovely ! Is it Patel's statue you are referring to, the Statue of unity?
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