With the Centre's proposal for upgrading the varsity into an IndianInstitute of Engineering, Science and Technology (IIEST) pending, theState Government is moving towards handing over the varsity to theCentre, though it is engaged in hard bargaining to make the Centreagree to certain conditions put forward by it.
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''The Centre is not averse to having a nominee of the State Governmentin the three-member panel to select the director.The State may also be given five members in the 17-member board of governors, in place of the three members proposed now.The talks are deadlocked on the demand for a 50 percent quota forMalayali students,'' sources said.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Washington Post on Netaji (2005)
"Bose wrote that 'Gandhi wants to change human beings, and all I want to do is free India' ", informs Benegal in an interview.
Guardian's May 2006 report on Netaji Commission
The Guardian report of May 18, 2006 has two notable points:
1. Justice Mukherjee told the Guardian, "As he would be 108 today, I have no doubt Bose is dead but he did not die in a plane crash."
(Justice Mukherjee's conclusion is purely based on average lifespan consideration and is not supported by any evidence.)
2. "He was a very clever man and a good bloke. I had a lot of time for him,"Hugh Toye, the former British intelligence officer whose job it was to track down Bose, told the Guardian. "If we had caught him he would have been sentenced to death though. I still think he died in the plane crash."
(Toye's remarks pointing towards British plan of trial as war criminal.)
1. Justice Mukherjee told the Guardian, "As he would be 108 today, I have no doubt Bose is dead but he did not die in a plane crash."
(Justice Mukherjee's conclusion is purely based on average lifespan consideration and is not supported by any evidence.)
2. "He was a very clever man and a good bloke. I had a lot of time for him,"Hugh Toye, the former British intelligence officer whose job it was to track down Bose, told the Guardian. "If we had caught him he would have been sentenced to death though. I still think he died in the plane crash."
(Toye's remarks pointing towards British plan of trial as war criminal.)
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Subhas Bose in Bengal in 1924: Mihir Bose
Mihir Bose investigates the case of Subhas Chandra Bose in Bengal in 1924 to show what can happen when a government is able to lock people up on the suspicion of terrorism.
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Jallian Wala Bagh picture in the document (source: http://www.amritsar.com/Jallian%20Wala%20Bagh.shtml)
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Jallian Wala Bagh picture in the document (source: http://www.amritsar.com/Jallian%20Wala%20Bagh.shtml)
Netaji and INA : from Ranjan Borra article
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For the INA the importance of the Imphal campaign was that it was the only major battle in which it would participate with the object of achieving freedom for India. As Salto and Hayashida writes:
The Imphal Operation was the final offensive of the East Asia War, mounted by three Burma-based Japanese divisions, and one INA division. The campaign lasted from 15 March to 9 July 1944. The operation has often been compared to the operation Wacht am Rhein or the Battle of the Bulge, which was the final all-out drive launched by Germany towards Ardennes on the Western Front, from December 1944 to January 1945. Both operations al most succeeded and both are termed "gambles" by historians today. If the German push towards Ardennes was Wacht am Rhein, the Japanese-Indian thrust against Imphal might be called "Wacht am Chindwin" although the official Japanese code-name for the action was most prosaic: Operation "U".[33]
River Chindwin lay across the Indo-Burmese border, and its crossing from the east by an army would signal an invasion of India.
Execution orders for Operation U became operative on 7 January 1944, coinciding with completion of the shifting of the Provisional Government headquarters in Rangoon. In the evening of the same day, Lt. General Masakazy Kawabe, commanding the overall Burma headquarters, held a welcome party in honor of Netaji and his staff officers. Netaji spoke, and concluded his speech with these words. "My only prayer to the Almighty at this moment is that we may be given the earliest opportunity to pay for our freedom with our own blood.',34 One INA Division, named after Netaji as Sublias Regiment, was readied for action at the front with the Japanese. Toye writes.
... He spent the whole days... with the Subhas Regiment, reviewing, watching it at exercises and on parade, talking to its officers, exerting his magic on it in a way that he had not attempted before. These were his comrades, the men by whose means he would uphold the rights and honour of India. Everything depended on their achievement in battle; they must absorb all his feelings of confidence, feel the whole of his personal force. On 3 February he bade them farewell: "Blood is calling for blood. Arise! We have no time to lose. Take up your arms. There in front of you is the road. our pioneers have built. We shall march along that road. We shall carve our way through enemy's ranks, or, if God wills, we shall die a martyr's death. And in our last sleep we shall kiss the road which will bring our Army to Delhi. The road to Delhi is the road to Freedom. On to Delhi!"
For the INA the importance of the Imphal campaign was that it was the only major battle in which it would participate with the object of achieving freedom for India. As Salto and Hayashida writes:
The Imphal Operation was the final offensive of the East Asia War, mounted by three Burma-based Japanese divisions, and one INA division. The campaign lasted from 15 March to 9 July 1944. The operation has often been compared to the operation Wacht am Rhein or the Battle of the Bulge, which was the final all-out drive launched by Germany towards Ardennes on the Western Front, from December 1944 to January 1945. Both operations al most succeeded and both are termed "gambles" by historians today. If the German push towards Ardennes was Wacht am Rhein, the Japanese-Indian thrust against Imphal might be called "Wacht am Chindwin" although the official Japanese code-name for the action was most prosaic: Operation "U".[33]
River Chindwin lay across the Indo-Burmese border, and its crossing from the east by an army would signal an invasion of India.
Execution orders for Operation U became operative on 7 January 1944, coinciding with completion of the shifting of the Provisional Government headquarters in Rangoon. In the evening of the same day, Lt. General Masakazy Kawabe, commanding the overall Burma headquarters, held a welcome party in honor of Netaji and his staff officers. Netaji spoke, and concluded his speech with these words. "My only prayer to the Almighty at this moment is that we may be given the earliest opportunity to pay for our freedom with our own blood.',34 One INA Division, named after Netaji as Sublias Regiment, was readied for action at the front with the Japanese. Toye writes.
... He spent the whole days... with the Subhas Regiment, reviewing, watching it at exercises and on parade, talking to its officers, exerting his magic on it in a way that he had not attempted before. These were his comrades, the men by whose means he would uphold the rights and honour of India. Everything depended on their achievement in battle; they must absorb all his feelings of confidence, feel the whole of his personal force. On 3 February he bade them farewell: "Blood is calling for blood. Arise! We have no time to lose. Take up your arms. There in front of you is the road. our pioneers have built. We shall march along that road. We shall carve our way through enemy's ranks, or, if God wills, we shall die a martyr's death. And in our last sleep we shall kiss the road which will bring our Army to Delhi. The road to Delhi is the road to Freedom. On to Delhi!"
Netaji Subhas: Prof. Satadru Sen's account
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After the Imphal defeat, the Japanese retreated steadily through Burma and into Malaya, pursued by British and colonial Indian troops. The INA retreated with them. This retreat, ironically, brought Out Bose's best qualities as a leader. On the long trek from Burma to Bankok, followed closely by British tanks and under frequent attack from the air, he marched for days on end, refusing the offer of a car while his men had to walk. Throughout the march, he made sure that INA troops had proper food and medical care. In the chaos of the retreat, Bose was their best protection, and everybody knew it. Without him, the Japanese would have been only too eager to abandon the INA.
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After the Imphal defeat, the Japanese retreated steadily through Burma and into Malaya, pursued by British and colonial Indian troops. The INA retreated with them. This retreat, ironically, brought Out Bose's best qualities as a leader. On the long trek from Burma to Bankok, followed closely by British tanks and under frequent attack from the air, he marched for days on end, refusing the offer of a car while his men had to walk. Throughout the march, he made sure that INA troops had proper food and medical care. In the chaos of the retreat, Bose was their best protection, and everybody knew it. Without him, the Japanese would have been only too eager to abandon the INA.
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Netaji notes on World Association of Intl Studies website (Stanford Univ.)
Interresting comments found on this Stanford University link:
....the rapid advance of Japanese troops was a sort of racial payback time for the white man. There is some good reason to say that by kicking out the British or Dutch, the Japanese actually speeded up the decolonization process. In fact, pro-Japan “independence” leaders sprang up all over Asia after the Japanese expansion. Today most of their names ar forgotten. In India, it was Subhas Chandra Bose, in Cambodia, Son Ngoc Thanh, the list is long, Indonesia, Vietnam etc.
Glynn Wood writes: Readers should know that Rajan Borra was a member of Subhas Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army that fought against the Allies in World War II. Borra was the long time head of the South Asia collection at the Library of Congress, and (on his own) held an annual conference on Bose. The thrust of the conference was that Bose had not been killed in an air crash in Taiwan in 1945, but would come back when Bengal needed him. ... ... ...
Some more links:
Sources:http://library.flawlesslogic.com/bose_1.htmhttp://library.flawlesslogic.com/And on the “revisionist” site Journal of Historical Review:http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v03/v03p407_Borra.ht
....the rapid advance of Japanese troops was a sort of racial payback time for the white man. There is some good reason to say that by kicking out the British or Dutch, the Japanese actually speeded up the decolonization process. In fact, pro-Japan “independence” leaders sprang up all over Asia after the Japanese expansion. Today most of their names ar forgotten. In India, it was Subhas Chandra Bose, in Cambodia, Son Ngoc Thanh, the list is long, Indonesia, Vietnam etc.
Glynn Wood writes: Readers should know that Rajan Borra was a member of Subhas Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army that fought against the Allies in World War II. Borra was the long time head of the South Asia collection at the Library of Congress, and (on his own) held an annual conference on Bose. The thrust of the conference was that Bose had not been killed in an air crash in Taiwan in 1945, but would come back when Bengal needed him. ... ... ...
Some more links:
Sources:http://library.flawlesslogic.com/bose_1.htmhttp://library.flawlesslogic.com/And on the “revisionist” site Journal of Historical Review:http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v03/v03p407_Borra.ht
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