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There are two compelling literary metaphors which almost define to a T, the
Netaji-Nehru business. The first is the Ancient Mariner, with Netaji being the
murdered albatross round the Congress family's neck; the second is Banquo

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The murder motif is important: in both literary masterpieces. The victims are
innocent, noble and stainless, both murdered because they were perceived as
threats to their murderers. The parallel with Nehru and Netaji is uncanny and
inescapable. The former may not have "murdered" the latter in the literal
sense, but Netaji's flight into unknown exile, as a war criminal and enemyin-perpetuity to the colonial power which contrived to place, Nehru its trusted
lackey, on the throne, was as good as the metaphorical murder of a political
adversary.
Nehru's use of all the state machinery at his prime ministerial disposal to
keep tabs on his political rival - and like Banquo to Macbeth, his better in
every way - is again uncannily medieval and reminiscent of the history of
royal successions, where an inferior usurping king posts spies to inform him
on the movements and doings of the dispossessed legitimate sibling or
half-brother. In both instances - the contemporary and the historical - the
underlying motivation was fear: fear that the one in exile would return one
day to claim his inheritance, knowing deep down that one's own position was
illegitimate and stained with blood. And knowing that one was grossly
undeserving; that, in Banquo's words at Macbeth's crowning, one had
"playd'st most foully for it".
Nehru's fears were not unfounded. The people, the common folk of this
country knew which was gold and which was trash. The sustained frauds
foisted on them by Gandhi and the Congress, with the implicit connivance of
the departing British did nothing to diminish Netaji's lustre as a hero, a
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saviour would not be shaken. The country and its people needed a saviour
because the shambles of partition was all too painfully evident, not least
because the country was dismembered, and rivers of blood - the blood of
innocents, "multitudinous seas incarnadine", to use another Bardic metaphor
- watered the way to Nehru's coronation, a pass the people knew for a
certainty the country wouldn't have come to, if Netaji had had anything to do
with it. The historical record showed that Netaji had tried his utmost to
prevent a dismemberment, had tried to bring around the intractable Jinnah
(an "ogre" created as a convenient fiction by the Gandhi-Congress-Nehru
combine to cover its own crimes of cynical power ambition, far removed from
anything remotely to do with patriotism or love of the country, and far
removed from anti-colonial struggle).
That partition, and blood, was the price of Nehru's kingly ambitions is not
open to doubt. At one brief stage, it almost seemed like tragedy would be
averted when Gandhi offered the throne to Jinnah; but Nehru quickly
scotched that, seeing the crown dangerously close to slipping away. On the
other hand, Netaji never, not once ever, thought of a divided India. The men
who swore by him and were prepared to lay down their lives for him came
from both sides of the vexed religious divide. There was no partition in his
Indian National Army (INA), and there wouldn't have been a national
vivisection. Netaji loved the country far too much for that, unlike Nehru
whose self love overrode every other attachment.
The evidence of that self love was abundant all through Nehru's life, just as
Netaji's single-minded patriotic purpose was in his. The former made a habit
of sacrificing the country on the altar of his narcissism: "Si monumentum
requiris circumspice"
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prestige. The Nehruvian legacy was not just a creaking socialist economic
nightmare, it was the gratuitous ring of hostility from the Indus delta to the
borders of Burma - and the further bloodletting that that entailed. Netaji in
contrast, went into exile and hiding, and raised an army to beat the one foe in
his mind: the British.
Notwithstanding all the lies and facile fictions of the Congress, its allies and
familial train-bearers, notwithstanding the pious sanctimonious obeisances to
the "Father of the Nation" in the school books, let it be understood once and
for all that it was not "charkhas" and "salt marches" and "satyagrahas" that
sent the British home. The latter, with a thousand years of successful
belligerence behind them, were hardly likely to be brought low by a
"half-naked fakir" and his silly shenanigans. It could at best serve as a joke in
a Pall Mall or Mayfair club. It's another matter that the jest served them
conveniently, because both Gandhi and Nehru were their lackeys, and
therefore amenable. The easiest way out for the British was partition, the
seeds for which were already sown with Ramsay Macdonald's infamous
Communal Award. Protests in any case availed nothing. With Jinnah and
Gandhi irreconcilably opposed, it had the inevitability of a Greek tragedy.
That they had Nehru as an ally in this sordid drama was a bonus. He may not
have been a credit to Harrow and Trinity - he was a disgrace, in point of fact but he was still entitled to the tie, and so "one of us" (he remained "one of us"
till the end, reporting faithfully to his masters in MI5). It made that wrecking
artist Mountbatten's job that much simpler, with Lady Edwina doing her bit
for king and country. Everyone profited from the carving up - this was
"jhatka", not even "halal" - and everyone went home happy.
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unyielding methods were the principal causes for the British to catch the first
wind out, making virtue out of expediency. For while Netaji's INA failed to be
the Garibaldian venture intended, it certainly shook the British enough to
look closely at their most prized creation, the Indian Army. The naval
mutinies told their own story. There was no guarantee anymore that the
"Jewel in the Crown" could be effectively protected, or policed.
But it is now evident - from the files released so far - that the British didn't
quite leave cleanly. They left their trusted agent behind, in the highest seat of
government, no less. Whatever was the ultimate fate of the enemy of the
realm who had waged war against the King Emperor, Nehru could be trusted
to keep the British informed: it was actually rather easy, because Nehru's own
fears dictated his actions. Netaji's return was a nightmare too dreadful to
contemplate: better that the wartime allies dealt with their war criminal in
their own way, and Nehru was only too willing to help in their endeavours
(his appearance at the INA trials was excellent cover; and even otherwise, the
main counsel was Bhulabhai Desai).
All of which means only one thing: that the entire received narrative of the
"freedom movement" or "freedom struggle" is a consummate fraud, a lie of
such proportions that Goebbels could gladly take lessons from its
perpetrators. It is a lie repeated over nearly seven decades, ad nauseam, in
every "approved" history text: Gandhi-Nehru-Congress. The one true patriot,
the one true fighter for freedom, the only man with spine and integrity made
of stainless steel has been reduced to a hurried, embarrassed footnote.
Whereas in truth, this supposed "freedom struggle" should be called the
G-N-C betrayal of the country, by the unholy "Father", the unholier "Son",
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world, no country, not one, has had the misfortune of having had its true
history so insidiously, so shamelessly subverted for personal ambition by men
and women to whom lies were not second, but first nature.
Seven decades is long enough for a lie, any lie. It translates into three
generations of brainwashed. If there's any truth in the adage that truth will
out, the time has come for that outing. Those secret classified files, about
which every government has been coy - the previous ones for understandable
Nehruvian reasons, the present possibly for reasons of blackmail, since its
stand is otherwise inexplicable - must be opened. It's time the traitors, the
usurpers were unmasked. It's time that the "prodigal son", the "REAL son",
was brought home, not to the fatted calf since that has been feasted on for
seven decades by carrion predators, his betrayers, but to a warrior-hero's
homage. One hopes the present prime minister is listening, and understands
this.
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The people of India got what they deserved ... a
playboy who was a British mole and and agent, who
subverted India's history, compromised India's
security and economic interests for his personal
ambitions ... and not a visionary leader with a spine,
who could change the face of India and its people ...
!!

KVK MURTHY
The writer is a retired banker living in Bangalore.
He reads extensively, writes sporadically, and
travels when he can afford it.

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