THOSE DISGUSTING BLANK SPACES

THOSE DISGUSTING BLANK SPACES

Why are there so many missing words, phrases and sentences, so many blank spaces, in the Ramakrishna Mission-published version of Hemchandra Ghosh's essay on Swamiji sent to Swami Purnatmananda, where the writer is severely critical of Rabindranath Tagore's unpatriotic stance vis-a-vis the Bengal revolutionary movement? If the Mission chooses to be circumspect thus and, in doing so, to edit the truth, how on earth are we to know what the true history of our freedom struggle was? This is disgusting. Stop publishing books about Swamiji's influence on the revolutionaries if you dare not publish the whole truth.

Written by Sugata Bose