Those who feel it would have been better had Netaji returned to India to take over the reins of administration, I remind them that they would have been rounded up, most of them, for their laziness, callousness of character and despicable desertion of national interest. They would have to endure the rigours of punishment for reneging on their duties towards the emerging nation. None, I say, none would have been spared. Netaji would not have tolerated common corruption among his ardent enthusiasts of the day who have nothing better to do than castigate the great leaders of our nation. All those who now revel in the name of Netaji, commoner or men of undue eminence, all these would have to pay the price of independence with their toil and labour and untold sacrifice which he would have exacted out of them, and if resisted, would have crushed the life of such opposition, for he would for sure not have allowed anything to stand in the way of his grand mission of national self-reliance.
So, next time before you utter utter nonsense against the seminal leaders of our nation in the hope that your adored Netaji will be very pleased with your deliberate irreverence, remember that you have much misread him. His thrust of discipline on your bearings would have been more terrible than you can contemplate. And rightly so. That is the one way of building a nation. Be responsible, therefore, with your adoration of the great one and do not indulge in casual foul play with the reverenced ones of our nation, prime among whom shines that lustrous figure about whom George Bernard Shaw has drawn parallels with the Himalayas.
Written by Sugata Bose
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