[IAC#RG] Why was Bose diminished on Republic Day? (advance copy)

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SangeethaRao
Chennai
On 2/27/13, ASHOK DHINGRA <dhingra1949@gmail.com> wrote:
> neta ji right hand reborn in UP and retired as CDA AIR FORCE LIVES IN DELHI
> as i have known him since long and known that secret neta ji was brought
> from RUSSIA after independence and kept under military in red fort
> Two person knowing facts have died and 3rd one on highest post of military
> at present
> as known to me that he was burried after slow
> poisining
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Vijoy Ambasta
> <vijoy.ambasta@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> How well Mr MJ Akbar has retold the story of Netaji. Netaji was the icon
>> of the fighting spirit of India . His INA movement & the Naval mutiny in
>> Bombay caused the completion of the mission of Gandhiji as the British
>> understood that India was not their cup of tea. So they purposely
>> designed
>> independence of divided India so that this country could not become
>> strong. Had Netaji been heard there would not have been partition. So
>> what
>> stops our country from not remembering Netaji. . Let our children too
>> know
>> about Netaji.As long as Congress is there it may not be possible because
>> Mr
>> Nehru & Mrs Gandhi have tried their best to obliterate the effect of
>> Netaji
>> in our freedom struggle to highlight only Gandhiji's contribution. Let us
>> all celebrate Netaji's birthday every year on the 23rd. Jan
>> Vijoy K Ambasta
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Byline for 27 January 2013
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Why was Bose diminished on Republic Day?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> M.J. Akbar
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We measure power through size. Check any political poster. The boss gets
>>> the biggest face. Others in the pecking order descend till the miniature
>>> at
>>> the end.
>>>
>>>
>>> Why was Subhas Chandra Bose struggling among the also-rans in the Bengal
>>> Republic Day tableau? Swami Vivekananda, understandably, had pride of
>>> place. But it might have been better to keep Bose out of the jumble
>>> rather
>>> than literally reduce his stature. If Bengal forgets, how long will
>>> India
>>> remember the only Indian to head a government of united India?
>>>
>>>
>>> Bose declared independence before the British gave it in 1947. His
>>> government in exile did not have Gandhi's sanction. It fought on the
>>> wrong
>>> side of the Second World War: but it was a proud and free government
>>> whose
>>> contribution to our freedom has been reduced by the domestic political
>>> forces he challenged.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bose is an embarrassment to Congress because he challenged Gandhi, and
>>> was a powerful parallel icon to Nehru. Bose asked Indians to give him
>>> their
>>> blood, and he would give them freedom. Gandhi promised freedom without
>>> violence. Gandhi refused to join the British war effort in 1939; Bose
>>> went
>>> a step further, and led Indian troops on the side of the
>>> Germany-Italy-Japan axis. However, their horizon, freedom, was the same.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> More than six decades later the argument might seem pedantic, and yet it
>>> is worth revisiting. Invaluable Indian blood and treasure helped Britain
>>> win the First World War. After victory, Britain reneged on its
>>> commitment
>>> to Indian self-rule within the empire without batting an eyelid. Instead
>>> of
>>> dominion status, Indians got vicious brutality at Jallianwala Bagh and
>>> the
>>> pernicious Rowlatt Act.
>>>
>>>
>>> It is not generally known that Gandhi was not a pacifist: he served on
>>> British frontlines in the Boer and Zulu wars in South Africa, and was
>>> very
>>> eager to lead a medical unit to the killing fields of France in 1914, at
>>> the onset of the First World War. In 1918, Gandhi worked so hard as a
>>> recruiting agent for the British army, urging Gujaratis to prove they
>>> were
>>> not "effeminate" by picking up a gun, that he almost died of exhaustion.
>>> Farewell *bhajans* began to be sung before he recovered. Gandhi lost
>>> hope in Britain only when he felt betrayed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Britain had as much to protect in 1945 as in 1918. London knew that its
>>> empire would unravel at the point where it had begun, in India, once
>>> India
>>> became independent. What pushed Britain towards the exit gate? Of course
>>> there was the irresistible momentum of Gandhi's nationwide struggle. But
>>> the British had faced this challenge before, in the non-cooperation
>>> movement 25 years before. The significant difference was the nationalist
>>> sentiment unleashed by Bose among Indians in uniform. Bose's Indian
>>> National Army [INA] showed them where their national loyalties should
>>> lie.
>>> Bose's war also inspired the young to surge beyond the confines of
>>> Congress.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Even Gandhi, who only had faint praise for Bose in a 1945 obituary
>>> ["Subhas Bose has died well. He was undoubtedly a patriot though
>>> misguided"], had to admit in an article published on 15 February 1946,
>>> "The
>>> hypnotism of the Indian National Army has cast its spell on us...
>>> [Netaji's] patriotism is second to none... He aimed high but failed. Who
>>> has not failed?... The lesson that Netaji and his army brings to us is
>>> one
>>> of self-sacrifice, unity irrespective of class and community, and
>>> discipline..." When the British put three INA officers — Shah Nawaz, a
>>> Muslim, Sahgal, a Hindu, and Dhillon, a Sikh — on trial for sedition,
>>> India
>>> exploded in wrath. Nehru said on 24 December 1945, "The INA trial has
>>> created a mass upheaval."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bose broke the backbone of British rule when he destroyed trust between
>>> the British Raj and its armed forces. The eminently sensible Sir Claude
>>> Auchinleck, commander in chief, accepted that any extreme punishment for
>>> INA officers would make governance impossible, because Indians adored
>>> them
>>> as national heroes. This, he said, was the "general opinion held in
>>> India,
>>> not only by the public, but ... by quite a considerable part of the
>>> Indian
>>> Army as well".
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Subhas Bose's contribution to the formation of a Republic of India was
>>> no
>>> less than that of the very greatest of our founding fathers. Bose proved
>>> in
>>> practice what an Indian secular state would be. At a time when the
>>> Muslim
>>> League was in ascendant, he had the love and trust of Muslims. He lived
>>> his
>>> dream of gender equality when he set up the Rani of Jhansi regiment,
>>> under
>>> the fiery and beautiful Lakshmi Swaminathan. When Bose told the Japanese
>>> he
>>> was setting up a women's-only force, they thought he was joking. I do
>>> not
>>> believe Bose could have fought alongside Hitler, who advised the British
>>> to
>>> shoot Gandhi dead, and resented the Japanese advance because he thought
>>> Asia was being lost to white Europeans. Hitler was an undisguised
>>> racist,
>>> as were all Nazis.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Perhaps India can survive without Bose. But such amnesia will only
>>> diminish India.
>>>
>>>
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