All is not well in the state of Bengal. The commies forgot to garland Netaji on his birthday. So intense is the grief over Jyoti babu’s unfortunate demise..that they are forgetting their bread and butter activities. I guess Forward Block is no longer with the commies these days! Otherwise the streets of Kolkata might have turned once again into “Cholbe na cholche na…jalaiye dao puriye dao”. And before Didi could realize the wonderful political opportunity, the homage was paid on 24th January. And guess what! All the sarkari karmacharis were told to report on Sunday for the respective homages..bad luck for all those guys whose office had statues of Netaji. Work on Sunday!!Why are we slowly forgetting Netaji? Leave aside the commies. They have lost their father so error is expected. But what about our central government? Why can’t they be a little more generous in celebrating this day? For the Girl child week Government of India’s child welfare department came up with huge advertisements in Times of India. And they mistakenly put Pakistan’s former army chief’s photo over there. But why can’t even half a page devoted to this national hero from the Central Government Side? Is it just because he was no longer in the good books of Gandhiji? Or he is no longer a source of vote bank? This is what happens when you have an Italian with her army of sychophants manning our country…well no offense but it hurts. Netaji started the fight. No not the Gandhi type fight where if your enemy slaps you allow him to slap you again and again till your enemy is tired! Unfortunately Netaji didn’t buy this crap and gave the first battle cry. Yes he couldn’t succeed but he showed the way long back. You hit me and I will hit the hell out of you. He didn’t want our country to be a soft nation…just look at Kasab and you will understand how soft our country is! Everytime the Pakis slap us, bomb us, pinch us, kick us…we do what Gandhibaba told us to do.
History will not forgive us for forgetting Netaji. Forget the congress politicians. Like the commies they can be excused. Afterall they are busy 24/7 licking the butts of the central high command…as Ramachandra Guha told in his recent Outlook story ‘its darbari democracy’. So these leaders are extremely busy attending to the King, Queen and the prince in waiting. Who cares for Netaji? Where is the bloody time? Even though he admires Netaji, Dr Manmohan Singh has not spoken out why his Government rejected Mukherjee Commission report. Some sabotage? The answers to the following questions still remain unanswered:
a) Whether Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose is dead or alive;
(b) If he is dead, whether he died in the plane crash, as alleged;
(c) Whether the ashes in the Japanese temple are ashes of Netaji;
(d) Whether he has died in any other manner at any other place and, if so, when and how;
(e) If he is alive, in respect of his whereabouts.
But then what about us. You and I type public. Do we remember our hero? Well we don’t. I will be honest. It was only in the evening of 23rd Jan I realized that it is Netaji’s birthday. And I went quietly to the Balcony and gave a salute to the sky…probably he is up there somewhere watching us. But how many of us did that? And did that in public?
India is getting hijacked by the rich and the mighty. Big corporate houses bring out memorials in newspapers during Gandhi birthday. Netaji’s birthday do not get much priority…few Bengal based companies probably give advertisements in the regional dailies. That’s it. “Give me blood I will give you freedom”. Netaji told. The corporates and our politicians say “Give us profits. Gives us votes. We will remember you.” Netaji has none to offer. Gandhi has.
I know what I have written holds no value. It’s just an emotional ignorant coward Indian doing faltu bakwas. But then imagine if the entire emotional ignorant coward Indians starts doing bakwas simultaneously? I guess that will sound the bugle of change.
