Sunday, October 21, 2018

GRATEFUL INDIANS SALUTE THE INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY WITH PATRIOTISM


TEAR DROPS TO NETHAJI AND INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY

Sunlit sky wears the garb of night
To bid adieu to imperialism freedom sneaked
Era of colonialism-ended divide to rule failed
As Indians woke to hail the rays of light
Partition uproot millions, casteism divide trillions
Poverty haunts villages, floods cause ravages
Diseases stalk our land, yet we love our Homeland
To overcome division and unify our kinsmen
Lives of millions lost and Nethaji is a hero lost

Nethaji's eyes filled with tender light
To see eyes dimmed with tears emit delight
Teardrops ignite historical change
Fearless leader could clearly gauge
Narrow selfish German nationalism and trace
Its philosophy of supremacy of race
Stands for glorification of white race
Yet for tact sought Hitler's embrace.
Charles de Gaulle too faced humiliation
But victory graced his coalition
Bose met tragic end because axis lost War
Otherwise both leaders were at par.

Synthesis of National Socialism and communism
Thus spoke Bose on the tenets of his Socialism
At Tokyo University foresaw conflict between theses
And anti thesis resolving in higher synthesis.
Millions fought amidst infinite sacrifice
And Subhas Bose became living edifice.

10 th June 1943

Charles de Gaulle crossed the channel of English
To unfurl Free French flag with help of British
Bose in submarine reached Japan's shores
To enlist Tojo's support became his chores
Before Tokyo press he thus thundered
"Enemy with drawn sword be fought with sword
Non violence with armed struggle be replaced
Only by baptism of fire Indians can displace
Enemy and shall qualify for freedom on Earth".
Support to Indian cause was in no dearth.

2 nd July 1943

Two thousands thronged at Singapore
To glimpse Nethaji of many a lore
Liberation movement came under his charge,
Renamed Indian National army looms large
Azad Hind Fauj Free Indian army marches
Its heroic men upholding liberation torches
Crowds greeting Bose everywhere is countless
At Singapore support came from 6 lakh fearless
Thirty million dollars and three lakh men he need
But to arm only thirty thousand Japanese agreed
The title Nethaji earned him heroic adoration
Bose tours Bangkok, Saigon, Rangoon for mobilization
At Rangoon gather a lakh to hear his speech
Thai Premier Luant Pibulsongram within his reach
Burmese Government of Ba Maw also backs his goals
All these infused courage to suppressed Indian souls.

21 st October 1943

Bose chosen Prime Minister and Head of state
War and Foreign affairs problems galore in spate
Close on heels of government proclamation
Japan's recognition came the same day
By 19 November Germany, China, Italy
Hanchuo, Burma, Croatia, Philippines and Thailand
Recognize government in exile of our motherland
Bose wrested by talks Andaman and Nicobar Island
To have it as base to redeem the main hinterland.

Japan's Imperial General headquarters orders
To capture strategic areas of the borders
Near Imphal and parts of India's North East
For defense of Burma involving INA the least

Burmese cabinet receives Bose at Rangoon
South Asia recognizes new head of state soon,
Port Blair became part of Nethaji's raj
Andaman and Nicobar renamed as Shahid and Swaraj
First Chief Commissioner Lt.Col.Loganathan anointed
And Tamilians happy on seeing their men appointed
Their tireless service found recognition
To liberate homeland hardening their resolution

Subhas brigade of fourteen thousand men
Fought pitched battles bare footed in British den
Amidst gunshots Indian administration's blueprint
Was ready bearing Nethaji's imprint?
After marathon discussions breaking resistance
National Bank of Azad Hind came into existence
Capital of 5 million rupees from Indians raised
As founder of first shipping company VOC is praised
In banking for pioneering role Bose is hailed
His independence and intense sense of equality
Made him vehemently argue against inequality
And encroachments on Indian rights
Of future governance he had foresights
This led to Reconstruction College to bloom
Alas! The abortive struggle is cause of gloom

A.N.Sircar made to draft India's Unification plan
Bose aimed to attain social justice by state plan
Bose said “If situation leads to inflation
Adopt additional measures to effect deflation
Withdrawal of market surplus currency
Is the panacea to such an emergency?
To remove country's ills printing of notes
Is not the remedy states Aringnar Anna's quote?
Bose at the rock bottom of his heart felt the same
Underlines his mastery over economical game.

Lt.Col.Chatterji designated Chief Administrator
Of occupied territories in the Indian sector
Amidst military campaign that failed miserably
Bose planned all these meticulous steps ably
His greatness and uniqueness outshines others
His khaki cap bore many such feathers
No one else with exception to Comrade Lenin
Charles de Gaulle and Ho Chi Minh
Equaled him in clarity of vision
Before accomplishment of his mission.

Even in death Nethaji haunted the British
Wavell wondered Japanese announcement rubbish
Subhas Bose death by air crash is untruth
And suspected gone underground hence forth

Second World War clouds disappeared in horizon
Twenty five thousand INA heroes sent to garrison
But vengeful to punish yet fearful of upsurge
British classified into three to effect purge
INA with intention of rejoining as whites
And those misled by Japanese and Bose as greys
Fervent believers of freedom cause as blacks
Prisoners of War classified thus by British quacks
Whites restored to their position in army
Grays were tried dismissed and released awry
Blacks were made to bear the full brunt
Power mongers thus executed their witch-hunt
Red Fort housed the INA captives
Aliens ruled the roost enslaving natives.

5 th November 1945

The trio symbolizing unity amidst diversity
Brothers of Muslim, Hindu, Sikh fraternity
Shawnawaz Khan, Premkumar Sejgal, Gurubakshsingh Dhillon
Were put to trial for treason for various reason
Charged as having waged War against Emperor
To tame others Britishers let loose reign of terror
Trial and tribulations dragged till December end
Silent majority's feelings it did strongly offend
Nine months after War during British victory parade
Indians unfurled fury-feeling aversion to charade
Old Delhi town hall gutted, parading troops booed
Indians wearing British attire attacked, ire echoed
Police opened fire to quell crescendo of freedom
Dreaming forever India will remain their serfdom
To treat INA prisoners with leniency Jinnah urged
His appeal evoked no response, all three sentenced
To life fuelling the peoples explosive ire
Opening day of trial at Madurai police had to fire
As trial proceeded at Red Fort millions beseeched
More than hundred men killed or maimed
Calcutta was strike bound
Hindu Muslim unity was abound
Congress and Muslim league flags fluttered
American and British establishments attacked
Forty-nine military vehicles destroyed
Ninety-seven damaged ,two hundred military injured
Thirty two Indians lost lives , two hundred wounded
Patna Allahabad Beneras Bombay Karachi  in flames
Burning passion for liberation drove British to Thames

Joint secretary of war department Mr.Mason
Understood patriotic motives and boiling passion
Climbed down to treat as prisoners of war INA heroes
Auchenlik set the three men free ending their sorrows

By selective trials British continued their intention
Captain Abdul Rashid sentenced to 7-year detention
Bombay - Delhi rocked by Muslim Leagues agitation
In Calcutta strict martial law left fifty for cremation
Royal Indian air Force striking men of five thousand
In HMS TALWAR led navy revolt soon 70 ships abound
Of Karachi Madras Visakapattinam Calcutta Cochin Andamans Bombay
Hauling Union Jack down kept the enemy at the bay
Only two shore establishment and ten ships were left
To side with British, rest of navy completely swept
Madras Bombay Jabalpur Royal Indian Air Force Strike
Karachi witnessed gun battles for 2 days full of strife
Bombay mass uprisings in sympathy of the mutiny
Said Times of India as unparallel in city's history.

Left called for textile workers strike of six lakhs
People waged three days of fight while death stalks.
Two hundred seventy left dead, 2003 hundred injured
But never the will of people was conquered.

British Premier Atlee promised transfer of power
To Indians, if necessary of two nations, not later
Than June nineteen hundred forty eight
Vanishing was British might in front of peoples fight.
Nethaji Subhas Bose's words ring in ears to embolden
T0 march ahead of  nations in jubilee that is golden
To pay for our liberty with our own blood, the freedom
We shall win through our sacrifices and martyrdom
We shall be able to preserve with our strength
INA and NETHAJI electrified country's breadth and length
Let this echo every day in our hearts to infuse
Courage, conviction, clarity of vision and enthuse
In defense of Motherland and its march to prosperity
Liberating millions from clutches of poverty
As Aringnar Anna dreamt to strive for the smiles
In the faces of the poor let us dedicate our lives.

N.Nandhivarman General Secretary Dravida Peravai

[This is not poetry; it imitates poetic form in order to record history. DMK President Kalaignar M.Karunanithi writes history in verse-poems. His current efforts make me recall my attempt to make history simple, readable and understandable. On the role of INA and Nethaji Subhas Chandra Bose before few years I recited this so called poem in a Poets Symposium organized by Department of Arts and Culture ,Government of Puducherry]]








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