It seems that the truth behind
the disappearance of one of the foremost freedom fighter is a concern only of
immediate family members, and that Indians seem less bothered. It is sad to see the
plight of family trying to extricate whatever little information, for more than six decades, on the untimely, indeed suspicious, death of one of the most admired Indian.
This is what the manipulative and mediocre elite are capable of to reduce an
iconic Indian into the dustbin of history, the proud family into pitiable
rants. The government should release all the documents it has that deals with Subhash
Chandra Bose at the earliest. It is nothing less than a crime to withhold these
information from public about a person they adore and have high regards for,
whatever maybe the cost. The government will not be forgiven if it chooses to withhold
the information and disregard public opinion. Ideally, Army day should have
been observed on the formation day of INA or Bose’ birthday. This blogger questions
the credibility of people who decided these. Since each branch of defence has
its day and is well entrenched, it is possible to have a Defence day wherein
all uniformed services are celebrated. It is important to give due respect to
Subhash Chandra Bose, he should be recognized for his service to the cause of the nation, as also for anti-british colonial movement. His logic of enemy's enemy is a friend is tenable in the context of times. Also as an oppressed country, Indians were not at all in a position to rate Britian over Germany or Japan. Or for that matter colonialism over fascism. Churchill was very much responsible for Bengal famine as much as Hitler was for Holocaust. Secondly, during his lifetime Bose wasn't really aware of the full impact of Nazi. Bose' intent was to bring in discipline and courage into the reality of struggle, hence his focus on military. This he successfully executed as INA. It was a disruptive idea in an overwhelmingly safe haven that Indian elite had comfortably ensconced in. This blogger will always support these.
Subhash Chandra Bose was freedom
fighter in the true sense, unlike feudal elite playing the manipulative game
meanwhile attempting to extract gains and broadly giving the perception of fighting
for freedom, he didn't play safe. Bose took personal risks and understood the realities of the
situations and responded according to the need of the hour. He didn’t have the arrogance
of experimenting with truth (wherein one was nowhere near any truth to begin
with on the contrary the overwhelming reality was primitive structures that one
was enmeshed in and the haughty feudal lords as leaders). These idiosyncrasies
and habitual egotism of those masquerading as leaders led to bloodshed and untold
miseries during partition. It’s people like Subhash Chandra Bose and Bhagat
Singh (who have been reduced to “terrorists” in school books) that Indians owe their
freedom, the mahatmas and pundits were compelling sideshows. A compassionate society, as much
as individuals, must respond to the situation as and when it arises, which
means during medieval times when invaders were marauding, they should have organised themselves and fought. That was the need of the hour. During colonial period freedom was curtailed
and exploitation rampant they should therefore resist these and fight, that is the
moral obligation. That the society is incapable of and that only few individuals
are capable of taking the risk speaks volume of the deceitful and mediocre ways
that shackled the people, hence exploited and faced untold misery. It also shows a complete break down in the society, as also the individuals, when the exploited lose the reason to resist. Mahatmas and
religion herein necessarily must be on the foundation of egalitarian values,
there is no spiritual claim otherwise, hence this high moral ground is
deceptive. It can be easily understood that you cannot be obsessive about means when the ends doesn't change anything, worse if accentuate exploitative status quo. This may find traction among self-serving mediocre elites as they try
to cover up their home truths and appear civilized.
The way in which Bose was evicted
out of Congress is an instance of high Machiavellianism in action, as they
wrestled to control over common people. The reason why India got independence has
more to do with weakening of colonial Britain as also vehement threat posed by ideologies
and ideas created by Bose, that emboldened Indians working under colonial army, threatened
mutiny and cessation. It is this threat of violence unleashed by millions controlled
by minuscule number of British army men that did it. Bose had awakened the
Armymen, he made them aware of their strength. Army must fight for its people and
not exploiters of its people. He gave them the confidence, the courage, the means
to organise and face the enemy, the exploiters who were controlling them. Meanwhile
in the parallel narration of freedom, the mahatmas have firmly brought in the religion
into political space and discourse, not as a spiritual understanding but in pivotal
role as pointers of religious identities and differences. Unity in diversity
was in full force, as human beings quite aware of their degrading differences, grudgingly
came together. Moral foundation was sought to be constructed on the primitive structure.
It very well served the needs of mediocre and status quo driven elite, it had
the least likely reason to rattle their power and immoral world. Peace was at premium
as it suited them just fine, hence wonderful ideas on nonviolence were pushed
into hapless people –whose had/have never known any form peace in their miserable world,
nor this one to do with any absence of violence. Nonviolence was compelling
arsenal that kept the mediocre elite on the top of the game, this dreadful world
was broken by occasional invaders and temple breakers, a welcome respite and
new addition into the idea of miserable India. As new rulers dropped in, the mediocre
elite negotiated the milieu with the essential attribute of fawning to the powerful
and viciously subjugating the weak. They worked in tolerance and moral high
ground in compelling narration. This art was at full swing as they dealt
colonial Britain.
As with any artificial conception that seeks
to divide people and subjugate. It didn’t work, very soon as the pressure build
up, it started to crumble. ‘Do or die’ became the craven call, as the elite scampered
to grapple the spoil. They pushed the hapless people into the mouth of
partition, the horror that followed is well known in the annals of history. Never
was in the human history so many millions of people massacred, maimed and displaced.
This is the result of diluting humans into identities, most significantly on religion,
as if human beings don’t have any other selves or individuality. The machiavellian
and incredibly mediocre elite claims for nonviolence is bogus. Religion, if
ever, can only be a minor, if not regrettable, identity. This exaggeration of
human being into religion is a clever ploy by arbitrators who seek control; the
minority rights herein should be reevaluated. Most significantly each religion
should be closely scrutinized and stringently questioned. Too much is lost in
this nonsense. And yes beware of peace pouting clever Indians and their shrewd semantic
jugglery, they are the worst of the lot and should be taken to task, firmly put
into their debauched reality with some plain home truths.
