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Aug 22 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
India@75 survey: Most Indians feel that Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi are over-credited for their role in nation building, and Subhas Chandra Bose and Vallabhbhai Patel under-credited.

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This sentiment runs the strongest among supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which found a large support base in the latest round of YouGov-Mint-CPR Millennial Survey. BJP would be foolish to ignore the sentiments of its support base.

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As far as i have experienced, the BJP and Sangh rank and file admire Netaji. I cant say that for Mahatma Gandhi. By engaging in blatant Gandhi bhakti, the BJP is not pleasing its rank and file and the entire support base.
To say that they are over-credited is an understatement when you consider the fact that the role ahimsa played in our getting freedom was minimal.

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Aug 23
During second world war, Communists in India spew venom against Netaji. They even commissioned cartoons which lampooned him as dog and donkey of Japanese leaders. One such cartoon shows Netaji landing on starving children of Bengal, hugging a bomb dropped by the Japanese 1/ Image
This cartoon was drawn by the famous Chittaprosad Bhattacharya. CPI's mouthpiece "People's War" frontpaged Chittaprosad's nasty creation. 2/
Chittaprosad Bhattacharya (1915-78) was a political artist and a legend in his domain. Today, he is represented in the National Museum, Prague, The National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Osians Art Archive, Mumbai, and the Jane and Kito de Boer Collection, Dubai. 3/
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Aug 21
Not all British had left by 1951. The chiefs of Indian Air Force and Navy were British still; our IB was still reporting to London. The chief justice of Calcutta HC was also an angrez then. The transfer of power is a complicated thing, with secret understandings

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Sir Arthur Trevor Harries was chief justice of Calcutta High Court in 1951. Phani Bhushan Chakravartti was the first Indian CJ. Most Bengalis feign ignorance about him as he stated the truth about Mahatma Gandhi. Bengalis lead India in Gandhi bhakti. We have so many myths.
BJP seeks to challenge Congress's narrative but actually supports it to the hilt. Take for instance the Gandhi bhakti movement started by them. What is the point in attacking Chacha Nehru then? Who thrust Chacha on the nation?
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Jun 25
#EmergencyTortureTales

"As soon as a woman comes in, she is stripped naked in front of everyone else. When a human being is sentenced, he or she is punished enough. Must the human body be degraded and humiliated as well? Who is responsible for these perverse methods?" 1/n
In her prison diary, actress Snehalatha Reddy (pic) wrote what happened to her after she was picked up by police in May 1976. She was held without trial in Bangalore Central Jail, where she endured regular torture. This is what Mahatma Gandhi's followers did in the 1970s. 2/n
On two occasions in prison, Snehalatha went into an asthmatic coma. With her health failing, she was eventually released on parole in January 1977. Five days later, she passed away as a result of chronic asthma and a debilitating lung infection. 3/n
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Jun 7
God forbid this should be true! But Gumnami Baba said in 1962 that there was "a secret protocol that binds the Government of India to deliver him to allied ‘justice’ if found alive". He said this when asked why he was in hiding. He said it was in "national interest". 1/n
Today, we know that there was at least one secret clause in Transfer of Power in 1947. So there could be more! British were good enough to accept that such a clause existed. Our Gandhian leadership concealed it from us throughout as they reaped the harvest of Bose's struggle. 2/n
Our Gandhian leadership (no matter which party they are in) never told us that IB was misused to snoop on people linked to Netaji and intelligence was shared with our former masters in London after independence. India never discussed act of betrayal fairly and squarely.

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Jun 6
For all these years i have said that Gumnami Baba was Netaji and one reason he remained that way was that he felt he would be tried under some secret protocol India had entered. People said it was impossible that we Indians would buckle under any pressure of world powers. Really?
"My coming out is not in India's interest. India cannot withstand pressure of world powers and UN. People would suffer" -- is this so difficult to understand? What could a third world country, one of the poorest in the world, have done in 1955, 1965 or 1975?
Most of you refuse to read our book, saying that you don't believe the plot. You continue to say that who'd have dared to pressurise India and make empty boasts that no one could have forced India's hand back in those days.

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May 22
Good decision by @narendramodi ji. Our Govt should ignore demands to bring the Renkoji remains to India as Netaji's. They belong to a Japanese solider named Ichiro Okura. Most people in India reject the air crash theory. @PMOIndia @MEAIndia @AmitShah @PIBHomeAffairs @rohan194 1/n Image
Govt tried several times in past to bring these ashes but could not in view of public sentiment against air crash theory. Govt should ask IB to check how much that sentiment has gone up now in this age of social media. The success of movie "Gumnaami" is a good indicator. 2/n
In Netaji's home state of Bengal, Chief Minister @MamataOfficial is totally against the air crash theory. Any attempt to bring ashes to India will create a flutter and that won't be good for BJP -- whose rank and file adore Netaji. This is not 1956; people know a lot 3/n
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