"I have many things to say today. I shall try to deal with as many as I can. Today is Subhas Babu’s birthday. I have told you I cannot remember anyone’s Birthday or death anniversary. Someone reminded me of Subhas Babu’s birthday.
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Subhas Babu was a votary of violence while I am a devotee of ahimsa. But what does it matter? Iknow that the most important thing is that we should learn from other people’s virtues. As Tulsidas says:
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The Lord has created this world full of lifeless and living things and virtues and vices. The wise like the swan take the milk of virtue and leave out the waste of water.
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We should be like the swan and take the milk of virtue. Man has virtues as well as vices. We should emulate him in his virtues and forget his deficiencies. Subhas was a great patriot. He laid down his life for the country.
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He was not by nature a fighter but he became commander of an army and took up arms against a great empire. The soldiers of that army included Hindus, Muslims, Parsis and Christians. He never considered himself only a Bengali.
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He had no use for parochialism or caste distinctions. In his eyes all were Indians and servants of India. He treated all alike. It never occurred to him that since he was the commander he deserved more and others less.
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Let us therefore in remembering Subhas think of his great virtues and purge our hearts of malice. Once a friend who was an eminent advocate asked me to define Hinduism.
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I told him I was neither a lawyer like him nor a religious leader and was really unable to define Hinduism, but I would suggest that a Hindu was one who had equal respect for all religions.
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Subhas had equal respect for all religions and he easily won every heart. It is good to remember such things on this occasion."___Mahatma Gandhi on January 23,1948.( seven days before his assassination).
Taken from Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol 98, p 293, 294.
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"Some people ask me why I am now praising Subhas Bose when I had opposed him while he was in India. I want to give a frank reply to this question. Subhas Bose and I were co-workers in the struggle for freedom for 25 years. He was younger to me by two or four years.
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Our relations with each other were marked by great affection. I used to treat him as my younger brother. It is an open secret that at times there were differences between us on political questions.
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But I never for a moment doubted that he was a brave soldier in the struggle for freedom.I do not expect that there would be unanimity on every issue when we have achieved freedom. There will be always differences in the outlook of the people who belong to a healthy race.
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" Before 1918, the Congress had two groups — the Extremists (or Nationalists) and
the Moderates (or Liberals). In 1907 the Extremists were driven out of the Congress, but in 1916 at the Lucknow Congress, a rapprochement was effected.
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In 1918, the Moderates being outnumbered by the Extremists, seceded from the Congress and started the All-India Liberal Federation. The present leaders of the
Liberal Party are Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru of Allahabad, Sir Chimanlal Setalvad and
Sir Pheroze Sethna of Bombay,
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the Right Hon. V. Srinivasa Sastri and Sir
Sivaswami Iyer of Madras, Mr. Chintamani of Allahabad, and Mr. J. N. Basu of Calcutta.
The INA Defence Committee, later the INA Defence and Relief Committee, was a committee established by the Indian National Congress in 1945 to defend those officers of the Indian National Army who were to be charged during the INA trials.
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Additional responsibilities of the committee also came to be the co-ordination of information on INA troops held captive, as well as arranging for relief for troops after the war. The committee declared the formation of the Congress' defence
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team for the INA and included famous lawyers of the time, including Bhulabhai Desai, Asaf Ali, Jawaharlal Nehru and as The British insisted that this was an Army Court Martial, Lt. Col Horilal Varma Bar at law and Prime minister of the state of
" Just as three battalions of the INA's Gandhi Brigade, commanded by Inayat Kiani, started arriving at Burma from Malaya, Bose recieved news that Kasturba, the Mahatma's wife had died in Poona while in British custody.
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In a broadcast from Rangoon, Bose paid a moving tribute to the" great lady who was a mother to the Indian people". " Mahatma Gandhi called upon the British to Quit India and save India from the Modern Wars .
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The Insolent reply of the British was to throw him to Prison like an ordinary criminal. He and his nobel consort would rather die in prison than come out free in an enslaved India".
"Moghul kings to unify the country and usher in a new era of all-round progress. During the sixteenth and seventeenth century under the rule of the Moghul emperors, India once again reached the pinnacle of progress and prosperity.
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The greatest of them was Akbar, who ruled in the latter half of the sixteenth century.
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The great merit of Akbar was not only the political unification of the country, but what was perhaps more important, the working out of a new cultural synthesis — in order to reconcile the new stream of culture with the old — and evolve a new culture.
"Certainly I said that the present government is a tyrant. What else could I say? If I am convinced that this government is evil I cannot pray for its long life. . . .
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Whatever attractive things may be done for those in bondage, slavery is after all slavery. I deem it my national, religious and human duty to liberate my country and my people from servitude.
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The present government is a negation of the wish and will of millions of people. It justifies the barbarous general massacre of Jallianwalla Bagh. It does not consider it unjust that people should be made to crawl upon their bellies like beasts. . . .