Sunday, September 1, 2013

Re: [IAC#RG] The Call of Truth

How does a man like you, full of hatreds,distortions of history,ethnic nationalism,get to run anything? There is nobody or anything you respect unless they are from your clan. I do not know how I am on this circulation list and how to get off it. You are an articulate and confused man who has access to a lot of funds.i wonder who pays you. SLRao

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On 01-Sep-2013, at 4:37 PM, "Sarbajit Roy" <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear IAC

About 90 odd years ago, on 19 August 1921 somebody (whose genes I carry) delivered "The Call for Truth" soon after returning from the USA and elsewhere. This was the clarion call for "True Swaraj" given in 1905 (not Gandhi's "Fake Swaraj" of 1909).

While ostensibly paying "homage" to "Mahatma" Gandhi, this call inexorably set in process the violent counter-agitation to Gandhi's defeatist and collaborationist 'satyagraha' and culminated, 2 years later, as the Hindustan Republican Army (or HRA) which won Independence for India from the British (but not from its people).

Here are 2 brief extracts from a core paragraph in that call.

"Alien government in India is a veritable chameleon. Today it comes in the guise of the Englishman, tomorrow perhaps as some other foreigner; the next day without abating a jot of its virulence, it may take the shape of our own countrymen. ... So in 1905 I called upon my own countrymen to create their own country by putting forth their own powers from within. For the act of creation is itself the realisation of the truth."

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