IN RESPONSE TO THOSE WHO CRITICISE ANY DISCUSSSION WHATSOEVER ON NETAJI'S' ALLEGED MARRIAGE AND PROGENY THEREOF, CITING THEM AS PRIVATE AND PERSONAL AFFAIR TO BE NOT DABBLED WITH OUT OF FUNDAMENTAL CIVILITY AND SHOW OF REVERENCE TO THE GREAT LEADER

IN RESPONSE TO THOSE WHO CRITICISE ANY DISCUSSSION WHATSOEVER ON NETAJI'S' ALLEGED MARRIAGE AND PROGENY THEREOF, CITING THEM AS PRIVATE AND PERSONAL AFFAIR TO BE NOT DABBLED WITH OUT OF FUNDAMENTAL CIVILITY AND SHOW OF REVERENCE TO THE GREAT LEADER

No, this issue of Netaji's alleged marriage and progeny thereof needs public discussion as to its veracity or otherwise. You can very well see from the result of the poll that the polity is completely divided on this issue with more people debunking the marriage as myth than otherwise. As there is not a shred of evidence to substantiate the marriage, it stands to good reason for ardent followers of Netaji to opine on this issue to safeguard Netaji's pristine pure character from such sullying effect.

If Netaji were truly married, would there not be some such evidence as would testify to the event? Netaji himself never publicly said that he was married. Can you tell me why on earth Netaji never left behind any proof of this sacred act of holy conjugal union? Are we to suppose that he had lost character in Nazi Germany after having lived a life of continuous continence till late in his life? Was he such an irresponsible human being that he would have emotionally and in conjugal terms involved a lady in his dangerous life of fighting for freedom along the razor's edge, so to say, with Nazi German help and, so, effectively laid open the doors for the sabotage of his entire programme should the Allies have somehow scented the alliance in advance and elicited information from Emilie Schenkl or tortured her to get hold of him? Was Netaji a licentious and irresponsible person as to have allowed himself such a misadventure of sorts? Your opinion is emotional and a puerile one at that, based on momentary response to this contentious issue which has maligned Netaji forever and, therefore, this controversial matter needs discussion so that growing public pressure forces the truth to come out into the open.

Netaji researchers, a host of them, are convinced that this was a perfidious plot hatched to downgrade Netaji in the eyes of Indians and the world at large by making him seem more mortal than he was by bestowing on him marriage and paternity and, so, reducing his spiritual stature to comparable terms with those of his Congress colleagues. If Netaji's reputation were thus not tampered with, he would immediately have scaled Himalayan heights in the estimation of his countrymen and soared beyond manageable proportions for the enemies of the nation to profit by. Netaji's spiritual stature would have outshone Gandhiji's and created a lot of narrative problems for the British and the then Congress of Nehru-Patel-Gandhi etc.

Written by Sugata Bose

P.S. : @Munshi Abdus Shalek Reza : Do not misquote Krishna. The number, 16000, you have quoted refers to his divine beloveds in the Gopis and not to his wives. Secondly, you have no conception whatsoever of Rasaleela where his divine dalliances have gained fruition. To thus posit Krishna against Netaji is to be puerile, to say the least. Your idea of attaining spiritual perfection is, perhaps, that of doing so despite multiple marriages and unnumbered wives but continence classical as enjoined upon by our scriptures deems it to be otherwise. In these days of mass journalism it is easy to utter whatever gibberish comes quick to the tongue without a forethought or an afterthought as to what the significance of such shallow utterance in real terms may be. I cannot waste more time than I have already done on you thus far and leave you to ponder the point of Netaji's celibate living for your prospective illumination. At any rate not everybody is privy to understanding the glory of brahmacharya and, perhaps, true to your self, you are one of them. God bless you with leading and light ! Study Swami Vivekananda who was Netaji's spiritual preceptor at a distance to have an insight into the workings of real spirituality which evidently you have no clue to which is why we are on a different page of apprehension and articulation thereof altogether.

@Subrata Sengupta : Please start reading up all pertinent literature on this matter, especially those written by Netaji researchers like Keshab Bhattacharya, Dr. Madhusudan Pal and Dr. Jayanta Choudhuri who have cited copious evidence to disprove the 'marriage-progeny theory' or else pointed out the flaws in the arguments you have put above or the evidence offered in favour of the 'marriage-progeny theory'. I cannot keep answering each and every person's query for years on end. After I have satisfied you or failed to do so, another person will ask the same question. Best is to read up all available matter in this regard to come to conclusions oneself. I have in the past written articles plentifully on this issue and, yet, there are fresh seekers of explanations regarding the same matter which is not humanly possible for me to attend as it is tiresome and tedious. As long as people are not genuinely interested in solving apparently intractable issues, none can quite offer satisfactory solutions in regard to such matters which lie under the dense cover of conspiracy and deceit. I am personally capable of giving you adequate answers to your questions but am desisting from doing so, knowing the futility of the exercise when people choose to believe in things in the absence of credible proofs.