THE NARRATIVE MUST CHANGE

THE NARRATIVE MUST CHANGE

Netaji identified Britain as enemy and they also returned compliment. The other Congress leaders and Gandhi made some sort of a common cause with the British, a compromise of sorts that eventually mutilated the motherland. Jinnah outright betrayed India. Rash Behari Bose from distant Japan manouevred Britain out of Asia by doing the spadework for Netaji to do the finishing job. But these revolutionaries never compromised India's cause which the nonviolent brigade led by Gandhi did. And we paid the price for our woeful lack of manhood in giving the British stooges so much leverage over our fate.

Even today this false narrative in the name of Gandhi goes on from the highest offices of the State. It is upto us, common citizens of this country, to reclaim our rightful history by en masse debunking this dubious theory of satyagraha and ahimsa winning us independence. But for this to happen we must shed indolence and intelligently take to reading the relevant material on Netaji and the INA and the revolutionary struggle for freedom. Else, this nuisance of a narrative will continue to breed lies and weaken our polity for it is devoid of both manhood and self-respect, two attributes essential for kindling national pride and strength thereof.

Written by Sugata Bose