NETAJI TO BE ADORED, NOT ANY FAMILIAL EXTENSION OF HIS

NETAJI TO BE ADORED, NOT ANY FAMILIAL EXTENSION OF HIS

Netaji should be democratised and brought out of the hegemonic hold of a family. He belongs to all of us. We need not pay homage to his extended family from fraternal association as they have hardly lived upto his ideals in any conceivable way. Netaji must be followed, venerated, adored, admired, call it what you may, and not his relations across generations by way of slavishness of mind, a trait manifested in us by a thousand year alien imperial domination that has robbed us of self-respect and self-confidence to so prompt us unto slavish cringing. 

Netaji embodied freedom. Let us then, as ardent adherents of his life's message, free ourselves from this fawning of family that hardly deserves any of it. Let them instead live upto Netaji's idealism and practicalise what they so pompously preach in public at every bend and turn. To Netaji then let adoration be reserved and not to his extended family by fraternal association across generations by way of familiar fawning.

Written by Sugata Bose