A STUDY IN SIMILARITY AND A STUDY IN CONTRAST

A STUDY IN SIMILARITY AND A STUDY IN CONTRAST

If Churchill could go to communist Stalin seeking wartime alliance, Netaji could have gone as well to fascist Hitler for the same. This is realpolitik and has been in vogue in military situations throughout history. Neither did Churchill thereby become communist nor did Netaji become fascist in the process. Each retained his identity still -- Churchill that of a genocidal, racist British war hero and Netaji that of an enlightened, compassionate liberator of oppressed Asia from dastardly European colonial subjugation. 

Written by Sugata Bose