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Andamans celebrates hoisting of tri-colour
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30 December, 2008. Published in The Hindu.
Link - http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200812301912.htm |
The 65th anniversary of hoisting of Indian tri-colour by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in Port Blair was celebrated on Tuesday. At a commemorative function Vivek Rae, Chief Secretary, Andaman and Nicobar administration, hoisted the national flag and laid wreaths at Netaji's statue at Marina park and martyr's column in Cellular jail. On this day in 1943, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had hoisted the national flag in Port Blair marking the freedom of the territory from the British rule.
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Claim in Court that Netaji's letter to elder brother on marriage was forged
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17 December, 2008. Published in Bartaman.
Link - www.bartamanpatrika.com
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This is the translated version. Click here for the original Bengali version.
The port city of Kiel is almost 390 km away from Berlin. But the day when he was physically present in Kiel, Subhas Chandra Bose wrote to his elder brother Sarat Chandra Bose that he was writing from Berlin. How is that possible? But the story of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's marriage has been built on the basis of this letter. This logic has been used by a group of citizens to claim at the Alipore Court, in a case filed against the Netaji Research Bureau, that the letter is fake.
In this case filed against Netaji Research Bureau, its chairperson Krishna Bose and another member Sugata Bose, it has been pointed out by Surajit Dasgupta and others that it is mentioned on page 228 of the seventh volume of Collected Works published by the Bureau that this letter was written on 8 February, 1943. The Bengali letter has been published in the same volume, saying "I have married and I have a daughter." According to the petitioners, only the translation has been published in the book. There is no mention of when, where and how Sarat Chandra Bose received the letter. The letter also does not say whom, when and where Bose had married. In response to the petition, it has been submitted to the Court on behalf of the respondents that the case is not tenable since many years have passed. Moreover, the respondents have also requested the Court to dismiss the case on the ground that the petitioners do not have the right to file such a case.
Responding to this argument, advocate Rudrajyoti Bhattacharya said, "It has been claimed the letter in question was written from Berlin. But there is historic evidence that Netaji left Germany from Kiel port, along with Abid Hassan, on the dawn of 8 February. This implies that Netaji must have had to reach Kiel at least a day before, that is, on 7 February, since the distance between the two cities is 390 km. It can be said on the basis of this logic that the letter is fake."
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Netaji’s soldier mending umbrellas for a living
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11 December, Published in Merinews
8 December, 2008. Published in Express Buzz
Link - http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=152577 |
IN THIS world of internet and fiction movies, Seikh Ranjam Qureshi, this name may not be known to many. Well this man was once a brave soldier of the Azad Hind Fauj of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and had fought the British in Burma and Japan to get India’s independence. But due to criminal negligence by the authorities, he is living in virtual penury.
Even at the age of 92, Qureshi is working as an umbrella mechanic in his village Mandosil of Paikmal block, in Bargarh district of Orissa. Finding no other way of survival, the freedom fighter is fending for himself to make both ends meet. He manages to take care of his two grown up children Halima (22) and Alim Mohammad (21) with whatever little he earns.
Fighting against Japan, he was imprisoned as well. That time he came out of the jail with the help of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
Seikh was highly motivated by Netaji’s slogan of "Give me blood and I will give you freedom". This slogan attracted Seikh towards Azad Hind Fouj.
After independence he tried to join the army but the situation did not permit him to do so. He still has the same love and patriotism for the country but he is very upset by the recent terrorist attacks happening in the country.
To everyone’s surprise he neither receives nor expects any freedom fighter’s pension from the government. He has no complaints about it.
In a country where cricket players get crores of rupees for just wining a match, where politicians get crores from under the table deals, the least one expects is that a person who once fought bravely to protect his motherland from the Britishers is now forced to repair broken umbrellas. He has never asked for any help from the authority but it’s the moral duty of every Indian that they should give him the due recognition, which has eluded him for a very long time.
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Nehru was under the spell of Edwina Mountbatten: RSS chief |
6 December, 2008. Published in Indian Express.
Link - http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Nehru-was-under-the-spell-of-Edwina-Mountbatten--RSS-chief/394875
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After holding Jawaharlal Nehru responsible for most of the ills afflicting post-Independent India, the RSS went a step further on Friday, saying “Edwina Mountbatten had managed to impact most of Nehru’s policy decisions”. “Edwina Mountbatten ne Nehru ko apne moh paash mein baandh rakha tha” (Nehru was under Edwina Mountbatten’s spell),” said RSS chief K S Sudarshan at a book launch function here on Friday.
“The couple’s less-than-perfect marriage was well known. It was, therefore, a well-planned move by the British to send the Mountbattens to Delhi. Edwina later managed to cast a spell on Nehru. Her ability to sway Nehru’s decisions is well known,” added Sudarshan.
Commenting on present-day India, he said: “Many decisions taken in national interest during the NDA regime were undone during the present regime, because the present-day Government was like the British regime.”
The RSS chief said it was strange that the present-day discourse had found place for expressions like “Hindu Terror and Muslim terror”. “Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi in the journal Saraswati said that Hindu is someone who’s brave and doesn’t have the word ‘fear’ in his lexicon,” he added.
Most of the problems today can be traced to the era of Nehru, where Subhas Chandra Bose was given the short shrift, he contended. “Nehru, in turn, was swayed by the Mountbattens, particularly Edwina,” he added.
Incidentally, former Congress leader Natwar Singh, who wrote in The Hindu (the November 14 edition) that “Nehru had a soft corner for the Mountbattens that at times clouded his judgment on vitally important national issues,” rubbished the claim that the Mountbattens were sent to Delhi “under a design”. “The RSS nurses strong prejudices against Nehru,” he said.
BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi also addressed the gathering, and asserted that “Netaji had not died in an air crash in 1945”. “The country would not have been partitioned, if he had been there,” he said.
The book Bhagwanji Se Netaji Tak, brought out on the occasion by the “Netaji Vichar Manch”, has been written by the chief of the Faizabad-based forum, Shakti Singh.
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Netaji lives on in Naga tales
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The World War II museum at the Naga heritage village of Kisama, where the Hornbill festival is under way, has evoked memories of the “forgotten” heroes of the Indian National Army (INA) in the minds of hundreds thronging the venue.
The museum, with its invaluable artefacts of war, has added not just flavour to the annual winter festival but has provided many a nostalgic Naga an opportunity to recall the selfless sacrifices of the INA led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose — a household name here.
There are many here who still remember the tall and handsome INA general assuring better roads, hospitals, better education, water supply and electricity for them.
The Naga community had sided with Netaji to liberate India from British reign along side with the Japanese army. The father of Naga national movement, A.Z. Phizo, had led his people to toe Netaji’s line. Phizo had to reach Rangoon (now Yangon) on foot along with some of his men to be a part of Netaji’s mission.
Netaji had established his camp at Chesezu, 60km from here, from where he monitored the battle of Kohima. Later, the allied forces also bombed the camp from where he had to flee.
In 1944, around 3,000 Japanese and INA soldiers were killed in the Kohima war. “Today when the state government has opened a museum in remembrance of the World War II heroes, the sad part is that we have forgotten our INA heroes and their sacrifices”, says a young Naga scholar Khevito Sumi.
“The Centre must honour the INA soldiers, said an officer, who did not wish to be named. He termed the soldiers as “brave sons of India”.
N. Theyo, a former minister, vividly remembers the tall and handsome Netaji taking on the Japanese army office for harassing the villagers. Today as a mark of respect for the INA leader, a mountain near Chesezu has been named “Mount Netaji”.
Besides, a Netaji Subhas Bose Memorial Development Society was also formed.
But the people thronging the war museum still cannot come to terms with the documentary films showing Netaji dying in an air crash in Formosa in 1944.
The Japanese and INA do not have a cemetery here like many defeated armies. But the souls of Japanese soldiers who died in Kohima find solace at the Catholic cathedral here.
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