The most original account of the public and private lives of Subhas and Sarat Bose and an enthralling narrative of India’s journey to independence. Subhas and Sarat is a closely observed portrait of the Bose family of Bengal—especially its two most famous members, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and his older brother, Sarat Chandra Bose—and their role in India’s freedom struggle.
The author, Sisir Kumar Bose (1920–2000)—Netaji’s nephew, and the son of Sarat Chandra Bose—focuses especially on the period spanning the mid-1920s to the turbulent 1940s when the freedom movement was at its peak. We are offered unprecedented insights into the participation of Subhas and Sarat in the politics of the time. From being a careful observer of the events taking place around him, the author becomes a participant in Netaji’s great escape from the colonial authorities, when he drives his uncle, under cover of darkness, from Calcutta to the Gomoh railhead in Bihar, from where Netaji travels to Kabul—and goes on to become the Supreme Commander of the Indian National Army. Illustrated with rare photographs and documents, this lucidly written memoir is both the most original account of the public and private lives of Subhas and Sarat Bose and an enthralling narrative of India’s journey to independence

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Distilled from the authoritative, twelve-volume Collected Works, this collection stands a concise introduction to the thought of India's foremost militant nationalist.

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The man whom Indian nationalists perceived as the "George Washington of India" and who was President of the Indian National Congress in 1938–1939 is a legendary figure. Called Netaji ("leader") by his countrymen, Subhas Chandra Bose struggled all his life to liberate his people from British rule and, in pursuit of that goal, raised and led the Indian National Army against Allied Forces during World War II. His patriotism, as Gandhi asserted, was second to none, but his actions aroused controversy in India and condemnation in the West.
Now, in a definitive biography of the revered Indian nationalist, Sugata Bose deftly explores a charismatic personality whose public and private life encapsulated the contradictions of world history in the first half of the twentieth century. He brilliantly evokes Netaji's formation in the intellectual milieu of Calcutta and Cambridge, probes his thoughts and relations during years of exile, and analyzes his ascent to the peak of nationalist politics. Amidst riveting accounts of imprisonment and travels, we glimpse the profundity of his struggle: to unite Hindu and Muslim, men and women, and diverse linguistic groups within a single independent Indian nation. Finally, an authoritative account of his untimely death in a plane crash will put to rest rumors about the fate of this "deathless hero."
This epic of a life larger than its legend is both intimate, based on family archives, and global in significance. His Majesty's Opponent establishes Bose among the giants of Indian and world history.

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History matters in contemporary debates on nationalism,' Sugata Bose contends in The Nation as Mother. In this interconnected set of deeply researched and powerfully argued essays and speeches Bose explores the relationship between nation, reason and religion in Indian political thought and practice. Offering a subtle interpretation of the ways of imagining the nation as mother, the book illuminates different visions of India as a free and flexible federal union that have acquired renewed salience today. Breaking out of the false dichotomy between secular nationalism and religious communalism, the author provides incisive analyses of the political legacies of Tagore and Gandhi, Nehru and Bose, Aurobindo and Jinnah, and a range of other thinkers and leaders of the anti-colonial movement. The essays question assumptions about any necessary contradiction between cosmopolitanism and patriotism and the tendency among religious majoritarians and secularists alike to confuse uniformity with unity. The speeches in Parliament draw on a rich historical repertoire to offer valuable lessons in political ethics. In arguing against the dangers of an intolerant religious majoritarianism, this book makes a case for concepts of layered and shared sovereignty that might enable an overarching sense of Indian nationhood to coexist with multiple identities of the country's diverse populace. The Nation as Mother delves into history on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of freedom to evoke an alternative future of a new India based on cultural intimacy among its different communities

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This is the English edition of a trilingual biography of Subhas Chandra Bose, the German and Japanese editions being the other two. The aim of the biography is to place Subhas Chandra Bose in a correct historical perspective with regard to his much publicised revolutionary activities, and to provide an understanding of an extremely complex man, much maligned by Britain and greatly misunderstood by her allies.

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Writer, educationist and three-time Lok Sabha MP from Kolkata, Krishna Bose gives a compelling account of her journey from the time she was a schoolgirl witnessing some of the tragic scenes that accompanied Partition to her stint as chairperson of the Parliamentary standing committee on external affairs.
Married into the family of Subhas Chandra Bose, her acute yet sympathetic observations in An Outsider in Politics
Illuminate the changing world of the Kolkata intelligentsia from the 1940s to the present day. She writes vividly of her experiences as an academic and a working mother and gives a ringside view of the drama of election campaigns, the complexities of parliamentary politics and the forces shaping India's foreign policy at the turn of the new millennium. This understated but elegantly written memoir combines intimate family and social history with a gripping political memoir.

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Subhas Chandra Bose and his elder brother Sarat were among the most important leaders of the Indian struggle for independence from the British and were active from the 1920s through the 1940s. Brothers Against the Raj is the definitive biography of the Boses, placing them in the context of the Indian freedom struggle and international politics of the period. Leonard A. Gordon uses materials gathered in Europe and Asia from archives, records, and 150 interviews he conducted with the brothers' political contemporaries and family members. The author makes use of hundreds of unpublished letters and other previously untapped sources as well. Brothers Against the Raj brings these two controversial leaders and a significant epoch in India's history to renewed and explosive life.

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This paper back edition together Netaji,s three fundamental speeches and writings on Indian liberation movement has been one of the very important and popular publications of Netaji Research Bureau. First publised in 1970 the book had a second edition in 1987. Thanks to the Department of Education, Government of Himachal Pradesh, this edition is being released on the 109th birth anniversary of Sarat Chandra Bose.

I warned My Countrymen - Ed. Sisir Kumar Bose Collected Works 1945-50 of Sarat Chandra Bose Netaji Researce Bureau, Netaji Centenary Edition.

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Netaji Subash Chandra Bose - A concise biography, Sisir Kumar Bose 1994, National Book Trust, India English , Hindi, Punjabi, Assamese, Gujrati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, oriya

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A concise biography of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose meant for the young. The book will help to inculcate in the rising generation the basic human qualities like partriotism, national unity, self-sacrifice, courage and a concern for the poor of which Netaji was the shining example.

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Eds. Sisir Kumar Bose and Birendra Nath Sinha, Netaji Research Bureau, Ananda Publishers, 2nd Edition 1995.

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A Centenary Tribute, Eds. Sisir Kumar Bose, Netaji Research Bureau, 1989.

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Narrative about the 1941 secret exit of Subhas Chandra Bose (1897-1945), by his nephew. Paper originally presented at the International Seminar on Netaji and the Indian Independence Movement, held in Calcutta 1973

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We have combined in this publication the Netaji Oration delivered by Mr. Abid Husan Safrani in January 1970 and an account of the Indian Independence Movement in East Asia ordinarily be inappropriate to join together two such contributions however, this has a meaning and a purpose.

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We have combined in this publication the Netaji Oration delivered by Mr. Abid Husan Safrani in January 1970 and an account of the Indian Independence Movement in East Asia ordinarily be inappropriate to join together two such contributions however, this has a meaning and a purpose

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Between his resignation as Congress President in Calcutta on 29 April 1939 and his escape from his Elgin Road home on the night of 16-17 January 1941, Subhas Chandra Bose sought to provide the Indian people with an alternative at the national level in place of the old guard represented by the Gandhian High Command. This alternative was based on a commitment to uncompromising anti-imperialism in the current phase of Indian politics and undiluted socialism once freedom was won. Volume 10 of his Collected Works brings together the writings and speeches of this crucial phase in Boses political life immediately prior to his emergence as the Netaji of Indias army of liberation. The themes dealt with in his articles and speeches include the role of the left within the Indian independence movement, the Second World War as a conflict between rival imperialisms, and the need for Hindu-Muslim unity and Congress-Muslim League understanding in presenting a joint national demand to the British. Among the letters is his political testament written just before undertaking a fast â€"unto-death in prison in November 1940, a set of candid letters from prison to his elder brother Sarat Chandra Bose giving his assessment of the moral failings of the Congress leadership and his final correspondence with Mahatma Gandhi in the month before his escape. When Bose wrote to Gandhi on 23 December 1940 offering cooperation in any future movement, he had finalized plans for his escape from India. You are irrepressible, Bapu replied to Subhas on 29 December 1940, whether ill or well. Do get well before going in for fireworks. By this time Subhas Chandra Bose had already completed preparations for his fireworks and was simply waiting for the right moment to light the fuse. This volume will be of interest to all those interested in modern South Asian history and politics as well as nationalism and international relations in the twentieth century.

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On the night of 16-17 January 1941, Subhas Chandra Bose secretly left his Elgin Road home in Calcutta and was driven by his nephew, Sisir, in a car up to Gomoh railway junction in Bihar. Before his departure he wrote a few post-dated letters to be mailed on his return to Calcutta in order to give the British the false impression that he was still at home. Volume 11 of Netajis Collected Works opens with one such letter, written to his political colleague Hari Vishnu Kamath, who was then in prison. Two years later, on the eve of setting out on a perilous submarine journey from Europe to Asia on 8 February 1943, Subhas Chandra Bose wrote a touching letter in Bengali to his elder brother, Sarat Chandra Bose , which forms the last item in this volume: Today once again I am embarking on the path of danger. But this time towards home. I may not see the end of the road. Between these two journeys lies perhaps the most difficult, daring and controversial phase in the life of Indias foremost anti-colonial revolutionary. Netajis writings and broadcasts of this period cover a broad range of topics, including the nature and course of the Second World War, the need to distinguish between Indias internal and external policy in the context of the international war crisis, plans for a final armed assault against British rule in India, dismay at and criticism of Germanys invasion of the Soviet Union, the hypocricy of Anglo-American notions of freedom and democracy, the role of Japan in east and Southeast Asia, the reasons rejecting the Cripps offer of 1942, support for Mahatma Gandhi and the Quit India movement later that year, and reflections on the future problems of reconstruction in free India. This volume is indispensable for all interested in modern South Asian history and politics, as well as nationalism and international relations in the twentieth century.

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On the night of 16-17 January 1941, Subhas Chandra Bose secretly left his Elgin Road home in Calcutta and was driven by his nephew, Sisir, in a car up to Gomoh railway junction in Bihar. Before his departure he wrote a few post-dated letters to be mailed on his return to Calcutta in order to give the British the false impression that he was still at home. Volume 11 of Netajis Collected Works opens with one such letter, written to his political colleague Hari Vishnu Kamath, who was then in prison. Two years later, on the eve of setting out on a perilous submarine journey from Europe to Asia on 8 February 1943, Subhas Chandra Bose wrote a touching letter in Bengali to his elder brother, Sarat Chandra Bose , which forms the last item in this volume: Today once again I am embarking on the path of danger. But this time towards home. I may not see the end of the road. Between these two journeys lies perhaps the most difficult, daring and controversial phase in the life of Indias foremost anti-colonial revolutionary. Netajis writings and broadcasts of this period cover a broad range of topics, including the nature and course of the Second World War, the need to distinguish between Indias internal and external policy in the context of the international war crisis, plans for a final armed assault against British rule in India, dismay at and criticism of Germanys invasion of the Soviet Union, the hypocricy of Anglo-American notions of freedom and democracy, the role of Japan in east and Southeast Asia, the reasons rejecting the Cripps offer of 1942, support for Mahatma Gandhi and the Quit India movement later that year, and reflections on the future problems of reconstruction in free India. This volume is indispensable for all interested in modern South Asian history and politics, as well as nationalism and international relations in the twentieth century.

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Subhas Chandra Bose's Discovery of India, unlike Jawaharlal Nehru's, occurred very early in life, when he was barely in his teens. How many selfless sons of the Mother are prepared in this selfish age, the fifteen year old Subhas asked his mother in 1912, to completely give up their personal interests and take the plunge for the Mother? Mother, is this son of yours yet ready? As he stood on the verge of taking the plunge by resigning from the Indian Civil Service in 1921, he wrote to his elder brother Sarat: Only on the soil of sac and suffering can we raise our national edificeâ. In December 1937 Bose wrote ten chapters of his autobiography, providing a narrative of his life until 1921 and a reflective chapter entitled my Faith-Philosophical. It is not often that remembrances written later in life can be read together with primary source materials of the earlier, formative phases. The autobiography is supplemented with a fascinating collection of seventy letters of Boseâ's childhood, adolescence, and youth. This volume thus supplies the material with which to study the influences-religious, cultural, moral, intellectual, and political-that molded the character and personality of Indias foremost radical nationalist.

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1920-42 is Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's major political study of the movement for independence in which he himself was a leading participant. The book provides a lucid, analytical narrative of the freedom struggle from the gathering clouds of the Non-Co-operation and Khilafat movements to the unleashing of the mighty storm of the Quit India and Azad Hind movements. The story of the political upheavals of the inter-war periods is enriched by Netaji's reflections on the key themes in Indian history and a finely etched assessment of Mahatma Gandhi's role in it. Bose wrote the first part of his narrative, 1920-34, as an exile in Europe and the second part, 1935-42, also in Europe eight years later. When the first part was published in 19 it was immediately banned by the British government. The book was, however, warmly welcomed in literary and political circles in Europe. The Manchester Guardian described it as perhaps the most interesting book which has yet been written by an Indian politician on Indian politics. Romain Rolland hailed it as an indispensable work for the history of the Indian movement.

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Prison letters, despite being subjected to the scrutiny of government censors, often supply some of the deepest insights into the mind of a revolutionary. Subhas Chandra Bose's letters from Mandalay certainly underscore the truth of the poetic assertion: Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. They make this volume one of the most moving in the 12-volume set of Netaji's Collected Works. Subhas Chandra Bose's exile in Burmese prisons from 1924 to 1927 witnessed the transformation of a lieutenant into a leader. During the non-cooperation movement and its aftermath he had whole heartedly accepted Deshbandhu Chitta Ranjan Das as his political mentor. The apprenticeship was cut short by Deshbandhu's death in June 1925. When Subhas received this terrible news as a prisoner in Mandalay, he felt “desolate with a sense of bereavement, as he wrote to his friend Dilip Kumar Roy. Netaji's letters cover a very wide array of topics-art, music, literature, nature, education, folk culture, civic affairs, criminology, spirituality, and, of course, politics. He bore the rigours of prison life with a combination of stoicism and humor. This volume is indispensable to an understanding of India's greatest revolutionary leader and will interest all historians of modern India.

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The plan of publication of Netaji's Collected Works in ten volumes and in a number of Indian languages simultaneously marks the most important and definitive phase of the publishing programme of Netaji Research Bureau. The works have been so arranged as to give to the reader a total concept of his ideas and ideals and how they evolved through a life of intense struggle, suffering and sacrifice. The first two volumes consist of two of Netaji's major works, namely, his unfinished autobiography ‘An Indian Pilgrim and ‘The Indian Struggle 1920-1942 together with most valuable supportive material. The volumes that follow have been set in chronological order and span the entire period of his active public life from 1921 to 1945. These crucial twenty five years of Indias contemporary history cannot be understood without an adequate understanding of the life and teachings of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. The volumes, being published in regular succession and in an orderly manner, consist of his writings, speeches, letters, etc laboriously collected over nearly two decades together with contemporary documentary material. Subhas Chandra Bose has to be read and understood in the context of the long march of the Indian people to independence from 1857 to 1947. His birth in 1897 marked the mid-point of that crusade. A child of Bengal Renaissance, he grew up right from childhood in harmony with Indias national resurgence. He was born with an overpowering sense of mission which made anything other than Indias liberation irrelevant and inconsequential. The story of his eventual emergence as the leader of the last war of Indian independence will be unfolded in the pages of the Collected Works as they appear one after another. All the volumes are suitably illustrated and fully indexed.

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The plan of publication of Netaji's Collected Works in ten volumes and in a number of Indian languages simultaneously marks the most important and definitive phase of the publishing program of Netaji Research Bureau. The works have been so arranged as to give to the reader a total concept of his ideas and ideals and how they evolved through a life of intense struggle, suffering and sacrifice. The first two volumes consist of two of Netaji's major works, namely, his unfinished autobiography ‘An Indian Pilgrim and ‘The Indian Struggle 1920-1942 together with most valuable supportive material. The volumes that follow have been set in chronological order and span the entire period of his active public life from 1921 to 1945. These crucial twenty five years of Indias contemporary history cannot be understood without an adequate understanding of the life and teachings of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. The volumes, being published in regular succession and in an orderly manner, consist of his writings, speeches, letters, etc laboriously collected over nearly two decades together with contemporary documentary material. Subhas Chandra Bose has to be read and understood in the context of the long march of the Indian people to independence from 1857 to 1947. His birth in 1897 marked the mid-point of that crusade. A child of Bengal Renaissance, he grew up right from childhood in harmony with Indias national resurgence. He was born with an overpowering sense of mission which made anything other than Indias liberation irrelevant and inconsequential. The story of his eventual emergence as the leader of the last war of Indian independence will be unfolded in the pages of the Collected Works as they appear one after another. All the volumes are suitably illustrated and fully indexed.

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The plan of publication of Netaji's Collected Works in ten volumes and in a number of Indian languages simultaneously marks the most important and definitive phase of the publishing programm of Netaji Research Bureau. The works have been so arranged as to give to the reader a total concept of his ideas and ideals and how they evolved through a life of intense struggle, suffering and sacrifice. The first two volumes consist of two of Netaji's major works, namely, his unfinished autobiography ‘An Indian Pilgrim and ‘The Indian Struggle 1920-1942 together with most valuable supportive material. The volumes that follow have been set in chronological order and span the entire period of his active public life from 1921 to 1945. These crucial twenty five years of Indias contemporary history cannot be understood without an adequate understanding of the life and teachings of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. The volumes, being published in regular succession and in an orderly manner, consist of his writings, speeches, letters, etc laboriously collected over nearly two decades together with contemporary documentary material. Subhas Chandra Bose has to be read and understood in the context of the long march of the Indian people to independence from 1857 to 1947. His birth in 1897 marked the mid-point of that crusade. A child of Bengal Renaissance, he grew up right from childhood in harmony with Indias national resurgence. He was born with an overpowering sense of mission which made anything other than Indias liberation irrelevant and inconsequential. The story of his eventual emergence as the leader of the last war of Indian independence will be unfolded in the pages of the Collected Works as they appear one after another. All the volumes are suitably illustrated and fully indexed.

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Perhaps the least known aspect of Netaji Subhas Chandra Boses many-sided personality is his love for Emilie Schenkl in June 1934 in Vienna, developed a close relationship during his forced European exile, secretly married her in December 1937, and had a daughter, Anita, in November 1942. This special volume of the Collected Works illuminates the human and emotional aspects of Netajis many-splendored life. In his first letter to Emilie Schenkl on 30 November 1934 Subhas Chandra Bose wrote, I am always a bad correspondent-but not a bad man I hope. This bad correspondent nevertheless managed to write with unerring frequency to the woman he loved, whether he was in a prisoners hospital, home interned, or in the midst of whirlwind political tours. One hundred and sixty-two of his letters written between 1934 and 1942 are being published for the first time in this volume, along with eighteen of Emilie Schenkls letters that have survived. In short, this volume of hitherto unrevealed letters represents the first opportunity for readers to understand a hidden or underplayed dimension of Indias foremost militant nationalist.

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In February 1933, a seriously ill and emaciated prisoner was carried out of an ambulance on a stretcher and out onto a ship setting sail from Bombay to Europe. When the same man boarded a KLM flight in Calcutta for Europe in November 1937, he was President-elect of the Congress. This volume brings together the letters, writings and speeches from a fascinating period of mostly enforced European exile in the career of Subhas Chandra Bose. A wide array of topics is explored- imperialism, nationalism, fascism, communism, psychology, philosophy, spirituality, urban planning, travel, Gandhi, Ireland, love and more. In addition to over 200 previously unpublished letters, the volume includes such major political essays as The Anti-Imperialist Struggle and Samyavada, Europe-Today and Tomorrow, Japans Role in the Far East and The Pros and Cons of Office Acceptance. It is essential reading for all those interested in national and international politics of the inter-War era.

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In 1938 Subhas Chandra Bose reached the peak of his political life in India when he was elected President of the Indian National Congress. Leading the forces of uncompromising anti-colonialism and socialism, he was re-elected in 1939, having defeated Gandhs nominee in a bitterly contested election. However, in the face of vehement opposition from the right wing of the Congress and Gandhi, he submitted his resignation. This key volume brings together Boses letters, writings and speeches from January 1938 until just after his resignation in April 1939. The volume includes the famous Haripura Address of February 1938 in which Bose provides his analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of British imperialism and his vision of the socio-economic reconstruction of free India. Other important speeches and writings deal with the themes of socialism, national planning, science, constitutional issues, Hindu-Muslim relations, the role of women, European politics, etc. Among the 120 letters published in this volume are sets of correspondence with Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Jawaharlal Nehru. The volume makes essential reading for all those interested in the history and politics of South Asia in the twentieth century.

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Maj Gen M Z Kiani was officer in 1st Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment under Britishers. He won Sword of Honour & Gold Medal for the most outstanding Cadet in 1935 from Indian Military Academy, Dehradun. But he left all to join I.N.A under Netaji. He was Chief of General Staff under General Mohan Singh of I.N.A. He chose to move over in Pakistan after Partition in 1947 and wrote this book from there. This was published after his death through Maj. Gen. Chand Narain Das & Sh Sisir Kumar Bose. This is author's personal account of the INA and has been written from memory after over many years of the events it relates. Calling the INA movement "GREAT" may sound pompous especially to those who are unfriendly or unsympathetically disposed either to author or to the I.N.A, but having seen it from close quarters the author considered the appellation as justified and filling.....But what, to my mind, makes the movement "Great" that it shook the core the very foundations of the nearly two centuries old British Empire in India.. The book narrates many instances which are still now not known to people in Indian and Pakistan. He wrote..."India and Pakistan got their independence in 1947. Both before and after the Partition of the sub-continent, unprecedented communal riots engulfed vast areas causing great loss of life and untold sufferings to millions of poor & unsuspecting human beings. The instigators and the leaders (so called) generally got away without so much as a bruise. In fact many improved their lot politically, economically and financially" ........" Those of us who are in the autumn of our lives, and who did their mite to get rid of foreign rule, did not envision the type of independence we have got. People want happiness and contentment which they don't seems to have. It is now upto the youth, whose future is at stake...."

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