“ Musings ” on Netaji and Dhyan Chand : Why So “ HARSH ” a Reality To Face For The “ MANKIND ” , : A feeling of “ ineffable ecstasy ” , " BETTER LATE THAN NEVER "

Pic- : Netaji and Major Dhyanchand :: " TWO " " PEARS " in the same" OYSTER " 

“ Musings ” on Netaji and Dhyan Chand : Why So “ HARSH ” a Reality To Face For The “ MANKIND ”

Would like to start writing this article by paying my " RICHEST " tribute and the if possible, the " FINEST " homage to the TWO GREATEST ever " SOUL" born in this planet EARTH.

One went on to become the GREATEST Hockey player born in the earth and the other went on to become the GREATEST " WORLD LEADER " of the Universe's politics .

The lines that I wish and want to write for the two are as such-: 

“ Kismat Hamay Milnay Se,  Rokegi Bhala  Kab Tak

In Pyaar Ki Rahon Mai , Bhatkegi “ Wafa ” Kub Tak

Kadamo Kay “ NISHAN “ Tub Hi, Manzil Ke Patah Hongay “……..

As Told To Me By Mr Ravindra Sachar : A feeling  of “ ineffable ecstasy ”

It was the very 2^nd of December 1988 when I was returning to Indore from Delhi after attending a personal interview for a job at Delhi. I landed at Bhopal and was looking for a taxi to escort to Indore. On the other hand a taxiwalla was looking for a passenger  to fill in the seat for Indore. Well we fixed each other as we fitted into each other’s wallet and the cab and I chose the taxi for Indore, which was my work place in terms of being my HQ then for my job.

 Here it was that I met a very DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN, in the car who was the  Chief of the JUSTICE for the Hon’ble Delhi HIGH COURT. He was Mr Ravindra Sachar who was heading for Indore. He was to attend a case that was transferred to Indore from Delhi and he was to attend the court at Indore for some other matter also.

It always happen that when you are a co-passenger and  do your journey  along with some who are your journey partners till the journey is not completed, you mingle with them, get along with them, and share the moments with them and certain moments and certain occasion really bring the very surprising and monumental  moments that you never are tired to listen to it again and again, and  to remember them always and keep on lingering with them  and those moments, whenever you find the moment to do so.

Talks on and of various nature starts and there are plenty to talk when the overall ride by the taxi-car/cab takes a long duration of about five hours to reach Indore .As usual the talks started with general introductions and there were four of us beside the driver that day when it started and by the time we reached Indore and parted our way there was one detailed talks and discussion that I’m jotting it down over here- forcing my mind and the brain to pass down the memory lane.

From the general talks it was me who was talking all about the Rajiv Gandhi Memorial Hockey tournament that was just over at Lucknow and we were discussing about India and Indian hockey. It was hockey that started but along with Hockey it was Netaji Subash Chandra Bose, which got pitched in, and who pitched him through the  MOUTH OF THAT “ DEITY ” as I would like to call him Mr Sachar.

There were a lot and a lots of discussion on Indian Hockey that day. As I had not seen Dhyanchand playing and I was not born when Mr Netaji Subash was doing his all round the jobs in terms of his war against the Britishers, it was Mr Sachar who was in full swing that day and the remainders  in the cab that day were all ears to that great Gentleman.

What ever Mr Sachar had told on that day- I only take a few vital points from the COG-OF-HIS-WHEEL that was on it’s full speed on that day during the journey , and I put in over here for the readers to read it.

I start with Mr Netaji Subash Chandra Bose as it was told to me by Mr Sachar. It was his HEINOUS and a kind of a GUSHFUL attack on the Britishers in and around Taiwan, Singapore, Malaya ( Malaysia now), and in some  part of Rangoon, that the castle of the British just instead of whacking the INA, it got crushed under the wand-bagon of the imperious force of the INA.

Thereafter for some precarious situation that had arrived at Lahore, Netaji in a say  like a FANCY-DRESS-COMPETITION entered Pakistan at Lahore, in the form of a MAULVI, and met some of the top Muslim leaders at Lahore.He addressed a huge gathering at Lahore and  explaining what was his intentions for a free India and what was all his vision for an UNITED-INDIA at Lahore. It was there that this gentleman Mr Sachar first had a glimpse of that GREAT-GREATER-GREATEST leader whom we call him and refer him as NETAJII.

A 14 years of age Mr Sachar who by 1988 was about 68 years of age , had first seen Netaji but not as a Netaji but as a MAULVI. He was simple struck by the words and the speech that Netaji delivered at Lahore. Netaji only words that struck each  “ LAHORI’S ” was-:

 “ IRRESPECTIVE OF ME BEING IN OR OUT OF THE PRISON, RESPECTFULLY THE INDIANS AND INDIA WOULD BE SALUTED BY THE WORLD AS A FREE NATION, INDEPENDENT TO CHALK OUT IT’S FUTURE COURSE OF ACTION “ .

 Netaji addressing a HUGE congreggation which never had been seen at Lahore, said that India is a country which is quite capable of managing it’s own affair and no lessons are needed in terms of any remarks by Mr Winston Churchill, and those ,  were the words of Netaji then.  The way he spoke for about an hour that day and the way the Lahori’s were swept off his feet it  was simple to understand that he had  left a kind of an incredible mark on the mind of the Lahori’s that day, and Netaji within a span of a fraction of second on that day after those words was the “ PRINCE-POLITICIAN-OF-UNDIVIDED-PAKISTAN-AREA-OF-INDIA-ON-THAT-DAY “ .

He had PROMISED to the lahori’s on that day that NO SOONER THAT INDIA GAINS HER INDEPENDENCE- HE WOULD AGAIN COME TO LAHORE TO PAY HIS RECPECT TO THE LAHORIAN’S FOR THEIR RESPECT THAT THEY SHOWERED TO NETAJI. Ever since then the Lahorian’s waited and kept on waiting for this GREAT man to visit them but it NEVER happened .

Netaji NEVER was to either come back to India or at Lahore, and that could have send many a heartache’s to many , many and many. But then that it how it goes. Man proposes and GOD disposes as thet say it and say that .

Following Netaji Subash Chandra Bose’s failure to come back to India, after the capture of I.N.A. and it’s personnel at the end of World War II, there have been various stories surrounding his disappearance—like he died in an air crash or that he escaped to Soviet Union so as to make preparations for further fight against the British Government.

A Deal Struck With Mr Jawaharlal Nehru :: It Blocked Netaji’s Entry At India

Such was the  fear that tingled and wrinkled  Mr Jawaharlal Nehru at that time that it became very hard for Mr Nehru to breathe free and the man who snatched his sleep was Netaji Bose.

Mr Nehru knew that if Netaji comes back to India- his dream of becoming the Prime Minister of India would wane like a thick  wafer which wanes when it comes into the contact with the water or the thick layer of ice-cream. Mr Nehru knew that the brain that both had, Netaji would lick him like a baby licks the ice-cream. That apart the Britisher knew very well that if Netaji is allowed to roam scot free- the GREATNESS of GREAT-BRITAIN will reduce to “ SMALL- BRITANNIA-BUISCUIT-OF- BRITAIN ” . Hence the best was to go in for a deal with British and to somehow keep Netaji out of the business and to see to it that he ends up all his life in the jail. The best was to sign a accord regarding that matter.

In 1946 Indian National Army and its officers who had been arrested by British Government like Captain Sehgal, Dhillon and Shah Nawaj were held guilty by the Military Tribunal at a Trial held in Red Fort. But such was the massive support for I.N.A. that the British government struck a deal with Nehru that though they will be released, they will not be taken back in the army – a compromise by Nehru for which nation never forgave him.

“ All then current leaders including Nehru and Jinnah were eclipsed by the popularity of Bose ” .

I still remember, went on saying Mr Sachar then ,  that when after the I.N.A. trial three of them came to Lahore (Punjab in 1946;  as he was in Law College) and went along with friends to the Railway Station, there was a mass of people, Hindu Muslims, Sikhs, never seen before shouting only two slogans-  Sehgal, Shah Nawaz Dhillon Zindabad, I.N.A. Zindabad, with the portraits of Subash Chandra Bose all over

 Netaji had made such a mark in the HEART and the MIND of the PEOPLE then and the examples were to be seen and believed. This was something which was above all and above everything. He was the leaders of the MIND-AND-THE-PEOPLE-OF-INDIA and he was simple the “ MARVEL-OF-THE-POLITICAL-WORLD-LEADER ”.  People refused to believe that Netaji had died in air crash, even when his close companions so testified, and even affirmed by G.D. Khosla Commission. Some later Enquiry Committees also failed to come up with any definite conclusion. Since Congress governments did not release all the files, wildest speculations continued to be made.

But after Modi Government, 2.0 ,  made public for inspection all the remaining files there is nothing found to rebut the settled position of death of Netaji. But still story of Netaji being alive even in 1970 was published recently in national daily suggesting that he was alive and living of his own choice in a Siberian town (USSR) in exile because Netaji was afraid that he would be declared a war criminal in India (emphasis added). This extract is said to be from the affidavit filed before Mukherjee Commission in 2000 by one Sindkar, a journalist based in Moscow who is said to have obtained this information from one time communist leader of India then Nikhil Chattopadhya, settled in Moscow. How disgusting and maligning that any one can impute such cowardice to one of the greatest patriot and freedom fighter of India who if alive in 1947 undoubtedly would have been the first “ Prime Minister ” of India.

GUMNAAMI BABA: GUMNAAM HAI KOI, BADNAAM HAI KOI :: DEFAMOTRY-CHEAP JOKE

In India you have and you will continue to have WORDS that can be “ CREEPY-CURVILE-CRAVE ” for any body to feel that INDIA WILL NEVER BE FREE OF “ TOPSY-TURVY ” .Our thoughts and belief had and has always been ruled by the GREATEST of the GREAT “ RIDICULES ”  which could be the ORIGINATOR of the greatest “ RIDDLES ”

One of such would be the MAUNI-GUMNAAMI-BABA that resides at Uttar Pradesh and that is nobody but Netaji .  Many people during the period between 1977 to 1979 kept on writing and uttering these words and many such articles regarding this was published in the “ NAV-BHARAT ” times and the “AMAR-UJALA ” later

Ridiculing and ridiculous and again the greatest of the ridiculous suggestion that Gumnam Babu who settled in U.P. was in fact Netaji is an insult to the meanest intelligence. That Netaji should be in India under an assumed name because he was afraid for being prosecuted by those in power at that time and who were not even born politically when Subash was at its height is a cheap, defamatory joke. 

U.P. Government has made it worse  later in the period when Mrs Indira Gandhi came back to the power, by appointing a Judicial Commission to enquire into this abhorrent suggestion. U.P. Government would be well advised, in its own interest to wind up this commission to prevent any further maligning of the Netaji Subash Chandra Bose. 

PLEASE- NO “ GUTTER ” GOSSIP :: Mr Sachar as told to me .  

The recent story by a news agency P.T.I about a classified 60-year-old Japenees government document stating unequivocally that Netaji Subash Chandra Bose died in air crash in Taiwan on 18 August 1945 and died at Taipei the same year should finally conclude the matter. Let Netaji’s death, sad as it was, be not made a subject of gutter gossip and fanciful unbelievable stories.

By that time all these and the counters of these were taking place and Mr Sachar was narrating everything about this story we reached a place near Dewas and stopped for some refreshment. A cup of tea was at last but then the entire group was treated by “ DEWASI RABRI, KHOE KA  JALEBI, KADA-JHAANJHARWALLA MISSAL , BANGAALI RASGULAA , AND OFCOURSE TEA ” all being shelled by me to make the weight of my WALLET a bit light and to reduce the weight of it that I was carrying it from New Delhi to Dewas then.

When we sat down again for our last phase of the journey together- it was all over HOCKEY and Mr DHYAN SINGH who we know as Mr Dhyanchand . We till then only had read about Dhyanchand but here it was the       as we usually call it , the “ AANKHON-DEKHA-HAAL” as we would call it , ie the RUNNING COMMENTARY  and again  it was not Mr Jasdev Singh, but Mr Sachar  and he took it over .

It was through Mr Sachar at that point of a time that I got to understand the “ INTRICACIES ” and the                “ IMPORTANCE ” of Bharat Ratna .Till that moment I was like to SHEEP or maybe a LAMB whose MEEKNESS was such that it PRAYS before the LION to spare it hearing by the  Lion that – IF YOU DID NOT DRINK THE WATER YOUR FATHER OR MOTHER MIGHT HAVE AND FOR THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO DIE

However after hearing to him- it was clear to me all about the SHREE and the RATNA that are conferred by the Government of India.

Mr Sachar went on to describe about how India had SCRATCHED and NERVED by SHAKING the WORLD , winning the 1936 Olympic Hockey Gold and that how Dhyanchand would make the RINKLES to RIPPLE on and  through the face when one saw him playing. It was a LESSON of LIFE to hear from this man who had seen Dhyanchand when he was only 14 years of age at Lahore in 1936 when Dhyanchand went to Lahore to play an exhibition match over there after the Indian team had landed over here bringing in the Olympic Gold in 1936.

I hereby narrate all about what I had heard from Mr Sachar then, but I first wite all about what I heard from that GREAT man -:

‘ Dhyan Chand should have been given the Bharat Ratna decades ago ’ :: Mr Sachar

Some time back there was a protest at Jantar Mantar by Hockey lovers emanding Bharat Ratna for Hockey wizard Dhyan Chand. The protest was led by Dilip Tirkey, a hockey stalwart and now member of Rajya Sabha. Though I am personally against the Union governments presumptuousness in the policy of giving various awards in fields of sports, arts and other specialties, because I believe that these awards should be awarded by the peers and co-professionals to the recipients because they alone can know the worth, having themselves been in the field of arts, sports or other specialties , yet I chose the Government because we BELIEVE that there would be NO PARTIALITY in conferring these  award to the personalities.

To me ie to Mr Sachar then, who was all on the spree about speaking on the subject then,  the sense of presumptuousness of any government of the day purporting to give awards in various excellencies when none in the government departments concerned may know what is “ left out ” or “ right in ” Hockey or Googly bowling in Cricket or “ Good lob ” in Tennis or the novel “A tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens in literature, is amazing self projection in purporting to give Padma Awards for excellencies in those subjects.

Pics - : Dhyanchand scoring yet another goal a very GREATEST one for India   

But since all the government have continued with this practice and also have given Bharat Ratna to Sachin Tendulkar (of course, one really WONDERS if  he fully deserves it), by the same standards Dhyan Chand should have been given the Bharat Ratna decades ago.

Plainly at that time when we were talking about the Bharat Ratna, Sachin was NOT THERE in cricket but there on the top if I have ever cited as an example- I plainly did that because if that “ GOD ” of cricket as we say him could be conferred with that award, the “ GOD ” of all the SPORTS and SPORTSMAN of the WORLD should have been conferred this award and this was the sentiment echoed by Mr Sachar  then. Sachin was NOWHERE in our conversation but I have added him to the gist just to similise the equation and the conversation.

Let me straight away dispel the suggestion that I am presumptuous to talk as a specialist of game of Hockey.  I am saying and talking about Dhyan Chand said Mr Sachar ,  because by sheer good luck I have myself seen Dhyan Chand’s wizardry in hockey when he was at its best, said Mr Sachar to me then while conversing all about Dhyanchand. .

My family, he said,  belongs to Lahore and I was hardly 14 years when our Olympic hockey team came back to India after 1936 Olympics victory. There was a great welcome to be given to the team in Punjab and they were to play an exhibition match with Punjab Province Hockey team at university grounds in Lahore. I was a young boy of 14 years, but as I had interest in sports, I went to watch the match.

I can still vividly recall Dhyan Chand’s exquisite dribbling the ball in such a fascinating manner that it looked as it the ball was gummed to his Hockey stick,  and he could twist it in any matter he likes. It was also treat to watch the beautiful passes that were exchanged with his team mates Dara (at right in) and with Zafar (left out). But let me be equally proud of my Punjabi Team which played so well that the match ended in a  3-3 , draw. Roop Singh had scored twice and Dhyanchand scored a OUT-OF-THE-WORLD kind of an unimaginable goal.  I feel Pakistan and Bangladesh can be equally proud of Olympic victory as it was a victory of India then which included all the three present countries, Dara and Zafar were from area now part of Pakistan. He ended saying that - :

The Olympic victory by Dhyan Chand and his colleagues of India was a strong “ slap ” on the false superiorly of Europeans, especially England. 

Came the city Bus Stand area of Indore and I was to say them – GOOD BYE and THANK YOU ALL. For it was a TRAVEL-TO-REMEMBER .

So how was it Mr Shyamal asked Mr Sachar, and my treply was-:

Though not an INTERLUDE as I said him, let me reverse the action of these two GREATS. I said- if Dhaynchand was the politician and if Subash Bose was the player,  and if I have to put my views on them, the Dhyanchand would be the RIGHT-OUT , and Mr Bose would be the LEFT-  WING HALF and the CENTRE-FORWARD would be the POLITICIANS of India and  nothing more . Because of that kind of  MARAUDING-KILLER, centre-forward, both Mr Bose and Mr Dhyanchand  and their game plans were battered and shattered for everything .  The way they cut Mr Bose into HALF and completely OUSTED Dhyanchand from everything DON’T YOU FEEL the NEW POSITION given to  them             “ judases ” and subsidizes  everything that was a BIRTH RIGHT for them to receive it.

The way I spoke on this matter at last send each of the other travelers in a “ FRENZIOUS- GIGGLE ”  

Laughter rose wildly amongst the four who were travelling and each had to wash away the wallet again by Rs 75=00 before it was all over .

Court Adjourned- Sine-Die said Mr Sachar and I replied to him that I do not understand the LAW and it’s language and I KEEP MYSELF AWAY FROM IT. Law is EXPENSIVE , much expensive that these Rs 75=00 I said and I keep away from it I said .

How much ever did I keep myself away from the LAW, I DID, but I never kept away those memorable meeting with that man Mr Sachar and today on the Dhyanchand’s birthday I put it here for the readers to rad it.

Government’s “ BAVIBASHOO ” -:

It was the Government under Mr Manmohan Singh which had signed the file to confer the BHARAT RATNA to Major Dhyanchand

However the “ YAVRAJ BABU ” far far and far away from knowing anything about that “ BABU ”  who was the winner of the “ HELMS AWARD ” , this Babu  at the “ HELMS ”  of the POWER at the Congress, even he DOES-NOT-DESERVES-TO-BE-IN-THAT-POSITION< upon hearing from the IDIOCRACIES that spill “ thee ” words from the MOUTH of the CHANNELWALLAS and meeting Sachin Tendulkar in a cricket match which was organized by the Congress to lure the people to vote them for the upcoming election at that time, IN-ONE-NIGHT , within an hour, changed the name from Major Dhyanchand and got it converted to Sachin Tendulkar . The endorsement on the paper were done my Madam Mrs President  then and that was that .

Again the Government under Mr Modi 1.0 inscribed the name of Netaji Bose for the Bharat Ratne award in 2014 but the politics of Bengal and the LOWSY words that emancipated out of it changed the mindset of Mr Modi and his Government.

IT IS A PRAY- :

PLEASE CONFER IT TO THE TWO GENTLEMAN ALONG WITH Mr LATE KISHORE KUMAR AND MOHAMMED RAFI THIS YEAR.

Ganges will Not flow backward and the “ CORONA ” will NOT stopping to  attack anybody or any Indians if you do it PLEASE

If the “ UNDESERVING ” GOD of cricket can be conferred for being EFFICIENT by a LESS than the  35 % of his contribution to the India’s cricket win, THESE ARE 1000000000000000% PLUS , raise to the POWER of n , raise to the power of INFINITY in terms of their CONTRIBUTION to their respective field and to the nation.

Hope my PROPHETIC words falls into the ears of the Government . Prophetic I say because my name is SHYAMAL- that is the NINTH name of LORD KRISHNA and the LORD’S have now taking a prominent place for the 2024 elections.

Some also wish to construct a statue of 108 feet of Lord Parshuram at Lucknow to woo the voters for enhancing their vote share in the days to come. Lord Ram at last has found his own place and the house that he was born  to be over there for ever on August 5^th 2020.

It is only the HUMAN LORD , the one I have mentioned over here that they are still at large and are waiting to find their right place amongst the people, and in the  HEART of the people and the NATION.

It is such a case of triangulation beside finding oneself with intrigues about  WHY IS THAT STILL THE NATION  HAS KEPT ON COMPLETELY SIDELINING THESE TWO " GODLY-GEMS"  OF INDIA

As everybody with a PROPER sense keeps on saying that -  Yes truly India's best two gems, sadly not valued by the nation nor it's citizens. Hope these gems are honoured as per the saying " better late than never "

The LUCK ,meeting , the BHARAT RATNA and the ILL- LUMINARIES that I have mentioned above, I hope will meet this year ……. The destination ie the MANZIL will see and meet  the destiny ……. ???? …. ????

I hope it does..??..??

That is it.

Regards

Thanks

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Shyamal Bhattacharjee

Mr Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author was born at West Chirimiri Colliery at District Surguja, Chattisgarh on July 6th 1959 He received his early education at Carmel Convent School Bishrampur and later at Christ Church Boys' Higher Secondary School at Jabalpur. He later joined Hislop College at Nagpur and completed his graduation in Science and he also added a degree in    B A thereafter. He joined the HITAVADA, a leading dailies of Central India at Nagpur as a      Sub-Editor ( Sports ) but gave up to complete his MBA in 1984 He thereafter added a Diploma In Export Management. He has authored THREE books namely Notable Quotes and Noble Thought published by Pustak Mahal in 2001 Indian Cricket : Faces That Changed It  published by Manas Publications in 2009 and Essential Of Office Management published by NBCA, Kolkatta  in 2012. He has a experience of about 35 years in Marketing .

Signature of Shyamal Bhattacharjee