Saturday, October 5, 2024

Why Anglophiles amongst us are crawling out of woodwork on Netaji

It is actually quite fascinating to see the Anglophiles amongst us, from abroad and in India, crawl out of woodwork and pontificate on the subject of the Indian National Army as well as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. 

I started getting more interested than most as a youngster during my seafaring days and visits to Japan, where a visit to the Renko-Ji Temple in Tokyo, not too far from Yokohama where our ship was berthed, turned into an emotional meeting with Japanese veterans who still knew and sang the INA songs.

It was symptomatic of all that was wrong in India in those days, the ‘70s, that I did not know the song they were singing. 

Subsequently, on a visit to Singapore, I was shown the site where the INA Memorial used to stand. Knocked down when the British returned to Singapore, ignored by Indian leaders till Modi as Prime Minister went there, it was rebuilt by the Singaporeans in 1995.

On a late night flight from Moscow to Delhi, sitting in the pointy end of the plane, I met a man who had drunk a lot and knew a lot and then spoke a lot. That along with other inputs convinced me there was so much more to the NetaJi story than had been revealed to us.

But then, what could be the reason? Follow the money was one, and whispers of funds moved from Thailand and Burma back to India, to revolve in banking circles as well as a couple of specific banking families were like the smoke which proves the fire.

The other was the political motivation. Not just the Indian politicians but especially the British political situation in the years leading up to India’s Independence.

And then I found this document only, well researched and with direct references to why and how the British establishment as well as their Indian neo-colonial remnants are, till today, wary about the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose phenomenon.

A good way is to first search the document by the relevant words. Better is to read through to get a grip on why we were, in India, kept in the dark for decades on the Indian National Army and its real impact on the British.

As someone who grew up in the lap of the Armed Forces of India, so much of this was new to me, and so much of it suddenly made things clearer.

Essential reading as the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose truths emerge.

(Veeresh Malik was a seafarer. And a lot more besides. A decade in facial biometrics, which took him into the world of finance, gaming, preventive defence and money laundering before the subliminal mind management technology blew his brains out. His romance with the media endures since 1994, duly responded by Outlook, among others.)

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