On The 63rd Anniversary Of Independence

“Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. It is fitting that at this solemn moment we take the pledge of dedication to the service of India and her people and to the still larger cause of humanity.”

That was the speech given by Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru on the eve of the Indian Independence, 14^th of August, 1947 at midnight. The British were still on the verge of leaving India. There was much political and social unrest in the country. India was left divided into many small countries and the separation of India and Pakistan was the masterstroke in felling the unity of India. But it wasn’t done by the British; it was strategized by our own Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru with the aid of Lady Mountbatten. Pandit Nehru, aware of his High Treason, set about playing the tunes of “Hindu-Muslim Bhai Bhai”, Secularism, adoration of Gandhi and his Ahimsa Parmo Dharma, lulling the people into accepting his Dynasty as the legitimate and rightful rulers of India for ever. Thus he could successfully prevent any inquisitive patriotic eyes from probing into his treacherous role at Partition. The first images right after independence were the horrible images of riots in Bengal and Punjab–millions killed, homeless and deported out of India to Pakistan. India was massacred, communal riots broke about, wars started off between the princely states and much was under threat. Then a man of iron will and resolute vice set out to unite the country, a man named Sardar Ballavbhai Patel the Iron Man of India. But he too was a pawn in the hands of a greater political power, the man set out to be the father of our nation, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. But that was a long time ago, much has changed, they say. Has it really?

The truth about these great men are out. And the sources quite surprisingly are their own kin. What Attenborough did not say in “Gandhi”, Rajmohan Gandhi surely did describe. An avalanche of material cascaded into libraries. Dr. B.T. Singh and Dr. Watson investigated and described in detail the records which clearly showed the racism of Mohandas Gandhi. The truth was out.

Gandhi’s limitations as a family man. Where the world sees a saint, Rajmohan Gandhi sees a cruel husband and a mostly absent father, paying scant attention to his children’s schooling and dragging wife Kasturba across continents at will, belittling her desire for the simplest of material possessions, then expecting her to comply when he turns from amorous husband to platonic companion to apparent adulterer. Gandhi took on a magnetic personality in the presence of young women, and was able to persuade them to join him in peculiar experiments of sleeping and bathing naked together, without touching, all apparently to strengthen his chastity. (Whether these experiments were always successful is anyone’s guess.) It is also revealed that Gandhi began a romantic liaison with Saraladevi Chaudhurani, niece of the great poet Rabindranath Tagore—a disclosure that has created a buzz in the Indian press. The author tells us that Gandhi, perhaps disingenuously, called it a “spiritual marriage,” a “partnership between two persons of the opposite sex where the physical is wholly absent.”

It is generally considered, as expressed for example in The Times of 15 August 1947, that if ‘the gigantic surgical operation’ constituted by the partition of India, has not led to bloodshed of much larger dimensions, Gandhi’s teachings, the efforts of his followers and his own presence, should get a substantial part of the credit.

“Mr. Gandhi told his prayer meeting to-night that, though he had always opposed all warfare, if there was no other way of securing justice from Pakistan and if Pakistan persistently refused to see its proved error and continued to minimise it, the Indian Union Government would have to go to war against it. No one wanted war, but he could never advise anyone to put up with injustice. If all Hindus were annihilated for a just cause he would not mind. If there was war, the Hindus in Pakistan could not be fifth columnists. If their loyalty lay not with Pakistan they should leave it. Similarly Muslims whose loyalty was with Pakistan should not stay in the Indian Union.”

All now blame these great leaders for the condition of our country. They played political power games to fill their coffers and impose their leadership and destroyed the country in the most brutal way.

In due course of time Nehru Dynasty acquired so much power over the people of India that more of them saw their salvation in worshipping Nehru and his politically convenient mentor Gandhi, rather than questioning his role at Partition or his secularism and morality. The Gandhi’s, as the Nehru Dynasty came to be known to further mislead and fool the people as to their real genealogy and ideology, had a paranoia about freedom of speech. They controlled the media, particularly broadcasting, that is crucial in an
illiterate country like India, and closely watched any journalist and editor “stepping beyond the line”. They put their foot down on 1947 and all what happened to the ordinary people of India in that year.

Whatever was to smear their fair name in the world was ruthlessly eliminated or crushed. Some dare devil democrats and champions of freedom of speech were severely punished during the Emergency declared by Pandit Nehru’s daughter in 1975. It was a hammering that was to keep the nation’s head down for another quarter of a century.

2000 was claimed to the new dawn for India. India was supposed to make rapid progress in the new millennium. Much nothing much changed. The same things kept happening. Terrorism, Political Treaties, Anti-Pakistan Charters, re-election and the cycle kept rolling over again and again. Much is the same now. As I here write on the day of the 63^rd Anniversary of The Independence of Our nation. The political system is still stuck up with personal gains rather than betterment of our country. Now even the citizens have stopped caring. They just say ‘Dude, nothing’s going to happen. It’s India after all.’ But I am extremely patriotic, and I believe that something can happen; we can surely do something to wipe that smirk of every guy’s face who thinks India lies down in the dumps. Speak out, Shout out. Be a change. You will forever be oppressed, massacred and murdered by the evil dictators. But being mute spectators makes you no less guilty of the condition that our country is in today. Take the blame on your shoulders, carry the burden and wipe the stain that violates our dear mother land in so brutal a way. In the words of Bhagat Singh,

“The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity – of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.”

And then in the words of Subhash Chandra Bose,

“Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam [the true], shivam [the god], sundaram [the beautiful]. Nationalism in India has … roused the creative faculties which for centuries had been lying dormant in our people.”

Parts Of Content Sourced From Wikipedia, Partitionofindia.com, Encarta, Britannica and excerpts from The Times and the book by Rajmohan Gandhi.