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Netaji's Birhday - an article where Ex-INA soldiers recollect
Forgotten heroes of India's 1st army By: Nilanjana Sengupta Date: 2010-08-14 From Singapore, 3 Indians who were in Netaji's INA, our first National Army, talk about glory and subsequent neglect from a "corrupt, truncated" motherland In a small Udipi restaurant on Singapore's Serangoon Road, a group of octogenarians greet each other with "Jai Hind". They remember phone numbers with difficulty, but lucidly recall their INA days. Each of them carries copies of a certain certificate with pride. It is the only, slim testimonial to prove that they belonged to the first real national army of their homeland, about 3,000 km away. (From left) Girish Kothari, Kishore Bhattacharya and Bala A Chandran in Singapore Bala A Chandran, Girish Kothari and Kishore Bhattacharya were once members of the Indian National Army (INA), a band of revolutionary fighters that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose created in 1943 from among Indian immigrants in Singapore and othe
Nehru and Mountbatten had greatly honoured Netaji
How was Netaji honored? Nehru agreed with Mountbatten that not a single INA soldier will ever be inducted in the Army of independent India
Netaji died in India, not in aircrash; He, not Gandhi, made Britain leave
By T J S George 14th July 2012 11:26 PM A return to the theme of Subhas Chandra Bose is necessitated by the “discovery” of two books. Both are by Lt. Manwati Arya who was born in Burma and joined the INA’s women’s wing, the Rani Jhansi Regiment, in her early 20s. Patriot (2007) is a “personalised biography” of Netaji. It is flowery and exaggerated: Bose’s marriage to Emilie Schenkl is called “the divine wedlock”. Judgment: No Aircrash, No Death (2010) is a compendium of records and stories about Netaji’s widely reported death in Formosa in an aircrash. The burden of the book is that both the aircrash and the death were figments of Japan’s—and Netaji’s—imagination and that in fact Bose escaped to Russia, then made his way to India. (With Japan collapsing in the war, the British were planning to arrest Bose. Which would explain his eagerness to avoid landing in Japan). These are not books* in the modern idiom, with style and polish making for pleasurable reading. But they contain h