WAR AND NOT PEACE WON INDIA INDEPENDENCE

WAR AND NOT PEACE WON INDIA INDEPENDENCE

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU[LAGOS/NIGERIA]

Contrary to plenty historical narratives that the peaceful nature of Indian Statesman ,Mahatma Gandhi got India her freedom and final independence ,The News office Desk of E.N.MPaedia Express Multimedia Group of Lagos,Nigeria can now confirm that though Gandhi was a key factor but that the war waged by Indian revolutionary :Netaji  Subhas Chandra Bose actually helped in no small way at forcing the hands of the British colonialists at giving the Hindi sub continent nation independence.

In a detailed documentary movie which showed the true accounts of the life time of the forgotten hero of India's independence it was discovered that the militant politician was a thorn in the flesh of the colonial masters ,Britain at the time in history.

In about three hours of movie watched by this reporter from his family's Areeba Country Home ,Off Missions Street at Ikuehi-Ihima ,Okehi Local Government Area,Kogi state at the heart of Nigeria's Midlands ,while on vacation  recently via StarTimes Satellite Television Channel ,ZeeWorld ,it was noted that the Indian freedom fighter was a political associate of the much elderly Mahatma Gandhi but both had to sever political ties on account of differences in political ideology.

It was gathered in the movie that Bose had gone into a hunger strike while fighting for India's independence from Prison in Calcutta,India.

This reporter discovered that Bose later fell on a much bigger plan which was to make him leave his home land for Russia through Afghanistan in search of help for a resistance to colonialism.

Checks showed that when the British government got informed that Bose had escaped from their watch in his home ,nationwide manhunt was laid out for him.

In the movie ,at some point the Hindi Castro had to turn to Adolf Hitler'sGermany whom he courted and won his friendship when Russia rejected his overtures for support for India's Independence.

Bose,the fighter later made the long trip from Germany to Indonesia via a sub marine and met with other like minds to work under the banner of The Indian Independence League and the Indian National Army to fight the British colonialists at the time.

A German lady who served him in his office as scribe and whom he married had a daughter for him prior to taking up arms to declare a full blown war against the British government with the help of foreign allies .

Bose was the de facto head of the Indian Government in Exile in his time as a Guerrilla fighter.
BIOGRAPHY-Subhash Chandra Bose was born on January 23, 1897 in Orissa's Cuttack. He was one of the most prominent Indian freedom fighters during the country's struggle for independence. He revived and led the Indian National Army, or the Azad Hind Fauj, in 1943 and also formed alliances against the British during the World War II. He was given the honorific 'Netaji' by German and Indian officials in the Special Bureau for India in Berlin. He is the creator of the slogan "Jai Hind", which is a popular patriotic salutation in the country. Subhash Chandra Bose was the first person to address Mahatama Gandhi as the "Father of the Nation". He associated himself as a socialist and was influenced by Swami Vivekananda's teachings from an early age. He is revered as a patriot and national hero. He died in Taiwan in 1945, reportedly due to a plane crash. On Subhas Chandra Bose's 121st Birth Anniversary, also called Netaji Jayanti, here are some hair-raising quotes from the national leader.

10 Quotes From Subhas Chandra Bose:

 

1. It is blood alone that can pay the price of freedom. Give me blood and I will give you freedom!
2. India is calling. Blood is calling to blood. Get up, we have no time to lose. Take up your arms ! we shall carve our way through the enemy's ranks, or if God wills, we shall die a martyr's death. And in our last sleep we shall kiss the road that will bring our Army to Delhi.
3. One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.
4. Men, money and materials cannot by themselves bring victory or freedom. We must have the motive-power that will inspire us to brave deeds and heroic exploits.
5. When we stand, the Azad Hind Fauj has to be like a wall of granite; when we march, the Azad Hind Fauj has to be like a steamroller.
6. One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.
7. Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth.
8. Life loses half its interest if there is no struggle-if there are no risks to be taken.
9. We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not , know the Absolute Truth.
10. I have no doubt in my mind that our chief national problems relating to the eradication of poverty, illiteracy and disease and the scientific production and distribution can be tackled only along socialistic lines