The Timeless Martyrs Of India!

As the 68^th Independence Day passes by, we Indians owe a BOMB to The Timeless Martyrs Of The Country (TMC!) who selflessly sacrificed their lives, without anyone asking for it! They sacrificed their personal dreams & life that the billions of faceless Indians in future – a future which was NEVER going to be theirs! - see the colourful dreams of & in an Independent India!  

We, Tutor Mantra College (TMC!), here PLEDGE, on this Independence Day, to REMEMBER & MAKE ALL INDIANS REMEMBER those GREAT  SOULS who walked away into the near oblivion of History, bare footed, way back in Time, when the Present Day India & Its People weren’t present on this Earth in the shapes they boast of today!

It’s a sad fact that there are thousands of martyrs who sacrificed their Life & Dreams for Mother India & faded into total oblivion as most of them are not even remembered by their names; they have vanished nameless, faceless, featureless into the all consuming oblivion of Time….thousands of Great Souls!

Luckily, we have some Great Souls left in such a hallowed stature that we got the great opportunity to see what they were, who they were, what they did etc! And, we, the entire Nation, salute them in respect & reverence that we, the Living Indian, try to give back, at the least, a wee bit of what they had done for us, given to us. Indians, though knowing pretty well that it is impossible!

It is Time we repay, at the least, a little bit of our HUGE debt to these GREAT SOULS who were there for Bharat/India when Courage, Unconditional Dedication, Spirit Of Freedom, Selflessness, Patriotism etc were required in such HUGE & ENDLESS QUANTITIES that THEY emerged SELFLESS from nowhere & did their uncalled for duty & disappeared!

In these times of irreverence, insignificance, wholesome materialism, utter selfishness, let’s remember those GREAT SOULS, who were here for us, when it was utterly necessary & extremely unavoidable! Let’s, with our head held high, remember the Great Souls of Our Great Bharat like Madan Lal Dhingra, Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru, Sukhdev, Batukeshwar Dutt, Mahavir Singh, Chandrasekhar Azad, Sachindranath Bakshi, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bibin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai, Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqullah Khan, Udham Singh, Rash Behari Bose, Subhas Chandra Bose, Veer Savarkar, Pandurang Khankoje & hundreds of those UNKNOWN FACES who selflessly toiled hard all across UNDIVIDED BHARAT for the FREEDOM of OUR MOTHERLAND! Let’s proudly remember the hundreds of faceless souls in the Cellular Jail in Andaman Islands, & pay homage to their INIMITABLE SPIRIT OF FREEDOM!

Let’s remember “Vande Matharam!”, “Kadam Kadam Badaye Jaa!”, ‘Swaraj’, Ghadar Movement, Azad Hind Fauj & other GREAT THINGS of Bharat’s Independent Movement which all came out from THOSE SPIRITS OF FREEDOM, with our heads held high in National Pride!

Karna stands out in Mahabharata, TOWERING OVER almost everyone else in the Great Epic Of Bharat as he is considered the Ultimate in Self Sacrifice! The real sacrifice happens when & where one gives away the most precious thing of his life - LIFE - for a great cause!

Time & History will NEVER forgive us, the present day Indians, IF we forget the martyrs who sacrificed their present for the future of India which they would NEVER see! We, the present day Indians owe them a lot & we should not be shamelessly thankless! It’s HIGH TIME, we bring those almost faded/forgotten faces of the Ultimate Sacrifice back into our mind & memories that we be more human & humane!

Remembering the Timeless Martyrs Of India, We @ TMC, representing the present day Free & Independent India, pay our heartfelt obeisance to those GREAT & INIMITABLE SPIRITS OF FREEDOM! We @ TMC, here, try wholeheartedly to bring those ‘Black & White’ Heroes from the history books and absorb the SPIRIT OF FREEDOM from them that we become more Humble, Human, Humane & Bharateeya/Indian!

Vande Matharam........!

TMC Wishes A Happy Independence Day!

Tutor Mantra College (TMC) Wishes All Our Students A Happy & Wonderful Independence Day!

As 66 Long Years Pass By Since We Got Our Precious Independence, We Stand Far Afar From The Noble Goals Set/Dreamed By Those Who Strove, Toiled & Even Sacrificed Their Precious Lives For The Liberation Of The Motherland, In All Senses!

As The Real & Basic Freedom For Every Indian From Poverty, Illiteracy, Exploitation etc Remain Only Half Or Quarter Achieved, Let Us Strive To Make ‘The Dreamed India’ Of Those Great Patriots Who Even Sacrificed Their Lives, In Large Numbers, Selflessly, & Suffered Grievous Losses & Physical Pain Emerge Into Its Full & Dreamed Existence ..........!

Let’s Remember On This Great Day Those Thousands Of Great Men & Women Who Wholesomely Dedicated Their Lives For The Freedom Of The Country Like Mangal Pandey, Rani Lakshmi Bai, Kunwar Singh, Tantia Tope. Chapekar Brothers, Bhaga Jatin, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Shivram Rajguru, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Jatindra Nath Das, Durga Bhabhi, Kartar Singh, Khudiram Bose, CR Das, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai, Bipin Chandra Pal, Sarojini Naidu, Roshan Singh, Chandrasekhar Azad, Surya Sen, Hemu Kalini, Rash Behari Bose, Netaji SubhasChandra Bose, Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhai Patel  & The Thousands Of Those Great Faceless & Nameless Bharatiya Who Vanished In Time ‘Dreaming’ For Us........!

“Vande Matharam!”

TMC Salutes Subhas Chandra Bose!

Nation salutes the man who dreamt great dreams of a great nation when dreaming was a grave sin & almost achieved what all he dreamed in his dream, on his 116^th birthday, today on 23-01-13!

Born on January 23, 1897 in Cuttack (Orissa), he graduated from Scottish Church College in Calcutta (Undivided Bengal) in 1919 with first class honours in philosophy! Then, he went to England to compete in the ICS examination, which was the best profession available for the Indians @ the time of the British Raj!

The man came out with flying colours in the ICS examination (Equal to the present day Civil Services Examination), in which he stood fourth with a minimum amount of time spent – approximately 8 months time!- & knew that the sole purpose of his life was to build a nation which only a few had even dreamed in their dreams; he resigned from the ICS even before joining it, which no Indian had ever done earlier in the history of ICS!   

“I have come to believe that it is time for us to wash our hands clean of any connection with the British Government.........The best way to end a government is to withdraw from it......I sent in my resignation a few days ago....!”, he stated resigning from the ICS!

He met Gandhi in 1921 & asked 3 questions to him; though ‘ONLY’ the answer of one question satisfied Bose he took his advice to meet C.R.Das (Deshbandu Chittaranjan Das) @ Calcutta; Subhas met him @ Calcutta & started to follow him!

He became the President Of The Indian National Congress in 1938. HE WON THE POST AGAIN IN 1939, THAT TOO AGAINST GANDHI’S WISHES! He was of the view that ‘ONLY THROUGH REVOLUTION FREEDOM CAN BE WON!”

As Gandhi was ‘NOT’ in the interest of Bose’s Ideas of Moving Forward in the fight against the British & actively opposed Bose’s planning he resigned his presidentship & later formed the Forward Bloc within the Congress! Then, the Congress barred the twice elected president of Congress Bose from holding any office in the organisation for 3 years!

Though the barring was a raw deal to Bose, as he predicted accurately the Second World War started in Europe and he intensified his fight against the British with the help of The Forward Bloc , in British India! The British government jailed him in 1940 & then when he started indefinite hunger strike the British were forced to release him! He was kept under strict British Vigil in his Calcutta residence from where he escaped in disguise, in 1941!

He went to Germany via Kabul & Moscow, in disguise! He influenced the Germans & he even met Hitler for the Cause Of Indian Freedom. The Germans were won over by Netaji & his charisma and he got the freedom to work for the Indian Freedom without having any interference from the Nazi party or the German Bureaucracy! With the help of the Germans who always considered the work of Netaji with great esteem & the Nucleus Group he formed in Germany, he started to address the Indians over Azad Hind Radio, from the German Soil! He also laid the foundation of INA (IndianNational Army!) in Germany!

Arriving in Tokyo in April 1943, after a 45 day long submarine saga in the War Hit Oceans, which the Germans facilitated for the Netaji, Bose attracted the attention of the Japanese high command, including Hideki Tojo, Japan's premier. The Japanese agreed to cooperate in founding an Axis-supported Indian National Army (INA) in Southeast Asia. Bose was flown to Singapore and became commander of the INA and head of the Free India provisional government (Azad Hind Government).

The INA included both Indian prisoners of war from Singapore and Indian civilians in Southeast Asia. The strength of INA grew to 43,000 and fought Allied forces in 1944 inside the borders of India at Imphal and in Burma. For Bose any means and any ally were acceptable in the struggle to liberate India. ‘Jai Hind’ was the official greeting for soldiers & civilians & Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Jana Gana Mana’ was the National Anthem! He told the 3 million Indians in East Asia that ‘In the world’s history no nation got its freedom without shedding its own blood.....this was the price they had to pay & there was no shirking it.....!’ He told them ‘Give Me Blood...And, I Will Give You Freedom!’ His ‘War Cry’ ‘Chalo Dilli/Delhi’ had reverberated all over East Asia & wherever there were ‘TRUE INDIANS/BHARATEEYA’!

Before the final & well planned assault on the British, Azad Hind Government had its first territory in the form of Andaman & Nicobar Islands, which had been gifted by the Japanese government! And, Subhas Chandra Bose, on December 31^st 1943 personally visited the First Free Indian Territory, Ever!

INA, under the Impeccable Leadership of its Netaji, marched forward against the Mighty British via Burma & even conquered some regions inside the British Indian Territory, inside the north east border. When the months long Siege Of Imphal by INA was nearing to bear fruit, which would have led the INA easily to Bengal & then to their final destination Delhi, the monsoons played spoil sports & a large number of valiant soldiers of INA fell to the inclement weather & the following cavalcade of diseases like malaria. When the Second World War ended in favour of the Allied Forces & Japan surrendered, which was the sole supplier of everything the INA had including Tanks, Vehicles, Guns etc, after the ‘HORRIBLE’ Hiroshima & Nagasaki Nuclear Bombing, ‘The Fighting Netaji’ had no option but to retreat & prepare for another assault on the War Weakened British!

He retreated to Burma & then to Thailand, with his INA Soldiers which included the Rani Of Jhansi Regiment of female soldiers. He then came to Saigon & from there boarded a Japanese bomber to Japan, from where he planned to go to Soviet Union to pursue his course of action, The Liberation Of India! He is supposed to have met his death near the Formosa Islands, when the Bomber he was travelling crashed, mysteriously!

Officially, Bose died in a plane crash over Taiwan, while flying to Tokyo on 18 August 1945. It is believed that he was on route to the Soviet Union in a Japanese plane when it crashed in Taiwan!   

Three officers of the INA were tried after the war in Delhi; the trial attracted so much popular sympathy (including statements by Nehru and Gandhi that the men were great patriots) that the British decision to withdraw from India followed. Bose indirectly and posthumously achieved his goal of Indian independence.

Bose was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award in 1992, but it was later withdrawn in response to a Supreme Court directive following a Public Interest Litigation filed in the Court against the "posthumous" nature of the award. The Award Committee could not give conclusive evidence on Bose's death and thus the "posthumous" award was invalidated. No headway was made on this issue however.

Bose's portrait hangs in the Indian Parliament, and a statue of him has been erected in front of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.

The Entire Nation & Tutor Mantra College Salute Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, One Of The Greatest Sons India Ever Had, today, on His 116^th Birthday & Celebrate The Memory Of  His Courage, Spirit Of  Freedom, Valour, Dedication, Determination, Will Power, Great Planning & Above All His Great Mind To Sacrifice Himself To Give India What She Deserved.....FREEDOM!!!

Please Note: ‘Story Of I.N.A’ published by the National Book Trust, India is suggested by Tutor Mantra College. (ISBN: 978-81-237-2122-4)