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our NETAJI"Give me blood and I will give you freedom".A short glimpse of a great leader.After returning to India Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose came under the influence of MahatmaGandhi and joined the Indian National Congress. On Gandhiji's instructions, he started workingunder Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das, whom he later acknowledged his political guru. Soon heshowed his leadership mettle and gained his way up in the Congress' hierarchy. In 1928 the MotilalNehru Committee appointed by the Congress declared in favour of Domination Status, but SubhasChandra Bose along with Jawaharlal Nehru opposed it, and both asserted that they would besatisfied with nothing short of complete independence for India.Bose advocated complete unconditional independence for India.Bose believed that Gandhi's tactics of non-violence would never be sufficient to secure India'sindependence, and advocated violent resistance.Throughout his career he presided over far more youth conferences than any other all-India politicalfigure, and his speeches to younger people he steadfastly urged a spirit of activism that contrastedsharply with the passivism preached by Gandhi and many of the older politicians. "One of the mosthopeful signs of the time," he claimed at the 1928 Maharashtra Provincial Conference,"is the awakening among the youth of this country. . . Friends! I would implore you to assist in theawakening of youth and in the organization of the youth movement. Self-conscious youth will notonly act, but will also dream; will not only destroy, but will also build. It will succeed where even youmay fail; it will create for you a new India -- and a free India -- out of the failures, trials andexperiences of the past."At a June 1933 meeting , Bose explained that:"Besides a plan of action which will lead up to the conquest of power, we shall require a program forthe new state when it comes into existence in India. Nothing can be left to chance. The group ofmen and women who will assume the leadership of the fight with Great Britain will also have to takeup the task of controlling, guiding and developing the new state and, through the state, the entireIndian people. If our leaders are not trained for post-war leadership also there is every possibilitythat after the conquest of power a period of chaos will set in and incidents similar to those for theFrench Revolution of the 18th century may be repeated in India . . . . The generals of the war-timeperiod in India will have to carry through the whole program of post-war reforms in order to justify totheir countrymen the hopes and aspirations that they will have to rouse during the fight. The task ofthese leaders will not be over till a new generation of men and women are educated and trainedafter the establishment of the new state and this new generation are able to take complete chargeof their country's affairs."This explains what Bose meant in The Indian Struggle when he wrote (as quoted above) of theneed for a strong, single-party government, "bound together by military discipline" with "dictatorialpowers for some years to come, in order to put India on her feet." Only an very strong government,strict discipline, and dictatorial rule would, according to Bose, prevent the anticipated revolutionfrom falling into chaos and anarchy. That is why the government would not -- "in the first years afterliberation" -- "stand for a democracy in the Mid-Victorian sense of the term." It would use whatevermilitary force was necessary to maintain law and order, and would not relinquish authority or re-establish more regular forms of government until it felt confident that "the work of post-war socialreconstruction" had been completed and "a new generation of men and women in India, fullytrained and equipped for the battle of life" had emerged.Bose clearly anticipated that authoritarian rule would not last beyond the period when socialreconstruction was completed, and law and order were established -- when India was "on its feet,"

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as he often wrote. As he frequently stated, Bose aimed for nothing less than the formation of "a newIndia and a happy India on the basis of the eternal principles of liberty, democracy and socialism."He rejected Communism (at least as it was practiced in the Soviet Union) principally because of itsinternationalism, and because he believed that the theoretical ideal found in the writings of Marxcould not be applied, without modification, to India. Still, he maintained socialist views throughouthis adult life, and, on very many occasions, expressed his hope for an egalitarian (especiallyclassless and casteless) industrialized society in which the state would control the basic means ofproduction.He was opposed to liberalism, believing that greater emphasis should be placed on social goalsthan on the needs or desires of individuals. Individual wishes, he reasoned, must be subordinatedto the needs of the state, especially during the struggle for independence and the period ofreconstruction immediately following liberation. Nonetheless, having himself been imprisonedeleven times and sent into exile three times, he was fully committed to upholding the rights ofminority intellectual, religious, cultural and racial groups. He hoped for an "all-round freedom for theIndian people -- that is, for social, economic and political freedom," and would, he said "wage arelentless war against bondage of every kind till the people can become really free."THE INDIVIDUAL MUST DIE, SO THAT THE NATION LIVES.It could be argued that he was not as committed to the principle of democracy as he was tosocialism and freedom (as he defined it). While he extoled democracy on numerous occasions, atother times his words suggest a belief that other parties would have a place, in a free India, only aslong as they were "working towards the same end, in whole or in part," as his governing party.Political pluralism did not appeal to him at all. He seems to have envisioned a free India that wasmore authoritarian than democratic. His own actions as head of the Provisional Government ofAzad Hind illustrate a lack of regard for the democratic process.Bose's alliance with the Axis during the war was based on more than just pragmatism, and thatBose was a militant nationalist, though not a Nazi nor a Fascist, for he supported empowerment ofwomen, secularism and other liberal ideas;Bose never liked the Nazis, but when he failed to contact the Russians for help in Afghanistan, heapproached the Germans and Italians for help.His comment was that if he had to shake hands with the devil for India's independence he would dothat.Bose's lack of success in his life-long effort to liberate India from alien rule was certainly not due toany lack of effort. From 1921, when he became the first Indian to resign formally from the IndianCivil Service, until his death in 1945 as leader of an Indian government in exile, Subhas ChandraBose struggled ceaselessly to achieve freedom and prosperity for his beloved homeland.

Modi's words on the account of his 118th[today] Birth Anniversary:“His bravery, courage and patriotic zeal inspire us. On his birth anniversary, I bow to the proud sonof India, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.”“Subhas Babu’s organisation and leadership skills were exceptional. He was a phenomenalpersonality, for whom the good of the Nation was paramount.”(https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/558493553476009985…)

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Friday, 31 October 2014

HOMI BHABHA

On April 20, 1944, Bhabha in a letter to Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-95) wrote: "...Ihave recently come to the view that provided proper appreciation and financial support areforthcoming, 'it was one's duty to stay in one's country and build up schools comparable with thosethat other countries are fortunate in possessing." And we know now that he is the person behind the establishment of the two great researchcenters in the country,Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), and the Atomic EnergyEstablishment at Trombay (which after Bhabha's death was renamed as the Bhabha AtomicResearch Centre (BARC).

My success will not depend on what A or B thinks of me.My success will be what I make of my work.

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He was born on 30th of october in 1909 atMumbai.During the time of his education his father anduncle wanted him to become an engineer. If it sohappened according to their wish, India might have lost agreat personality... In 1928 Bhabha in a letter to his father wrote: "Iseriously say to you that business or job as an engineer isnot the thing for me. It is totally foreign to my nature andradically opposed to my temperament and opinions.Physics is my line. I know I shall do great things here. For,each man can do best and excel in only that thing ofwhich he is passionately fond, in which he believes, as I do, that he has the ability to do it,that he is in fact born and destined to do it... I am burning with a desire to do physics. I willand must do it sometime. It is my only ambition. I have no desire to be a `successful' man orthe head of a big firm. There are intelligent people who like that and let them do it... It is nouse saying to Beethoven `You must be a scientist for it is great thing ' when he did not caretwo hoots for science; or to Socrates `Be an engineer; it is work of intelligent man'. It is not inthe nature of things. I therefore earnestly implore you to let me do physics." His father accepted but first after completion of his engineering studies.

And he made many significant contributions in his field.Some of them areThe explanation of relativistic exchange scattering (Bhabha Scattering).The theory of production of electron and positron showers in cosmic rays (Bhabha-Heitler theory).Speculation about the Yukawa particle related to which was his suggestion of the name meson.Prediction of relativistic time dilatation effects in the decay of the meson.

In 1939 he came back to India during world war.After spending a few years in IndiaBhabha was no longer interested in going back to England. He realised that there was no institute in the country which had the necessary facilitiesfor original work in nuclear physics, cosmic rays, high energy physics, and other frontiers ofknowledge in physics. This prompted him to send a proposal in March 1944 to the Sir Dorab J. Tata Trust for establishing 'avigorous school of research in fundamental physics'. In his proposal he wrote : "There is at themoment in India no big school of research in the fundamental problems of physics, both theoreticaland experimental. There are, however, scattered all over India competent workers who are not doingas good work as they would do if brought together in one place under proper direction. It is absolutelyin the interest of India to have a vigorous school of research in fundamental physics, for such a schoolforms the spearhead of research not only in less advanced branches of physics but also in problems ofimmediate practical application in industry. If much of the applied research done in India today isdisappointing or of very inferior quality it is entirely due to the absence of sufficient number ofoutstanding pure research workers who would set the standard of good research and act on thedirecting boards in an advisory capacity ... Moreover, when nuclear energy has been successfullyapplied for power production in say a couple of decades from now, India will not have to look abroadfor its experts but will find them ready at hand. I do not think that anyone acquainted with scientificdevelopment in other countries would deny the need in India for such a school as I propose." Finally it came into existance as TIFR.

Years before India became an independent nation, Bhabha was already incommand of India's nuclear future.

Ramanna confirms that Bhabha planned from the very outset to establish an Indian nuclearweapons capability. Bhabha told Ramanna during that period that "We must have the capability.We should first prove ourselves and then talk of Gandhi, non-violence and a world without nuclear weapons." On April 26, 1948 Bhabha sent a note entitled 'Organisation of Atomic Research in India' to thethen Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. In this note Bhabha wrote: "The development ofatomic energy should be entrusted to a very small and high powered body composed of say, threepeople with executive power, and answerable directly to the Prime Minister without any interveninglink. For brevity, this body may be referred as the Atomic Energy Commission". Bhabha emphasisedthat the proposed Atomic Energy Commission should have "its own secretariat independent of thesecretariat of any other ministry or department of the government, including the envisaged Department

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of Scientific and Industrial Research". He also suggested that once the Commission was appointed theexisting Board of Research on Atomic Energy should be abolished. The Government of India acceptedBhabha's proposal within a few months after its submission and with the promulgation of the IndianAtomic Energy Act 1948, the Atomic Energy Commission was formed in August 1948 .

He is not only a person of science but considered as a complete person.He once said "I cannotincrease the content of life by increasing its duration, I will increase it by increasing itsintensity. Art, music, poetry and everything else … I do have this one purpose — increasingthe intensity of my consciousness of life.

In his tribute paid to Bhabha, LordRedcliffe-Maud has aptly described the different facets ofBhabha's personality: "Affectionate and sensitive, elegantand humorous, dynamic and now dead. Homi was one ofthe very few people I have ever known (Maynard Keyneswas another) who enhance life whatever the context of theirliving. In Homi's case this was because he was fantasticallytalented but so fastidious about standards that he was nevera dilettante. Whatever he set himself to do, he did as aprofessional- but one who worked for love. He wasrelentlessly creative, enhancing life because he loved allforms of it. So he became a living proof that scientificexcellence can go with excellence in arts and racialdifferences need be no bar to friendship.When Indian Art was last exhibited in London, the onepicture chosen for reproduction on the poster outsideBurlington House was one of Homi's. He was as fond ofmusic as he was of pictures, contriving to fly in from India as the first Edinburgh Festival beganand, when the question of a late Beethoven quartet was raised in conversation, knowing the opusnumber. At one UNESCO conference after another he stood out even among the other distinguishedmembers of the Indian delegation, as a world citizen qualified in all three subjects - education,science and culture - as hardly another member of the conference was. He was in fact an obviouschoice for the headship of the Organization if he had felt inclined that way. Those qualified mustjudge how grievous was his death for India and for science and for civilization".

A film on Dr. Homi Bhabha made by TIFR Archives ( 2 parts)

Part 1- https://vimeo.com/62986769

Part 2 - https://vimeo.com/62986770

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Tuesday, 28 October 2014

JATINDRA NATH DAS

A post from on 13th september 2011 read like this:"In this season of fasts,does any one remember Jatin Das?"

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Balbir K. Punj wrote "On September 13, 1929, ayouth from Bengal gave up his life in a prison of Lahorefasting for 63 days. He literally fasted unto death inGandhian fashion though Mahatma Gandhi himselfnever touched that apogee despite undertaking 17 fastsunto death in his lifetime.…does any Congressman remember Jatindra Nath Das(1904-1929), who adopted the Gandhian instrument offast unto death and adhered to it steadfastly unto hislast? Of millions in the country who swore byGandhism, Jatin Das alone walked till the end of path."

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He is the only person in INDIA to fast unto death before the INDIAN Independence.

In November 1925, while studying for a B.A. at Vidyasagar College in Calcutta, Jatindra Nath wasarrested for his political activities and was imprisoned at the Mymensingh Central Jail. While beinginterned there, he went on a hunger strike to protest the ill-treatment meted out to the politicalprisoners. After fasting for 20 days, the Jail Superintendent apologised and he gave up the fast. Hewas contacted by revolutionaries in other parts of India and agreed to participate in bomb-makingfor Bhagat Singh and comrades.

On 14 June 1929 he was arrested for revolutionary activities and was imprisoned in Lahore jail to betried under the supplementary Lahore Conspiracy Case. In the Lahore jail, Jatin Das started ahunger strike along with other revolutionary fighters, demanding equality for Indian prisoners andundertrials. The conditions of Indian inhabitants of the jails was deplorable-the jail uniforms thatthey were provided with were not washed since several days, the kitchen area and the food wascovered with rats and cockroaches, they were not provided with any reading material-nonewspapers, no paper, while the condition of the English prisoners in the same jail was strikinglydifferent. The memorable hunger strike started on 13 July 1929 and lasted 63 days.The jailauthority took many measures to forcibly feed Jatin Das and the other freedom fighters, beat themand did not even provide them with drinking water. However, Jatindra did not eat. The jailcommittee recommended his unconditional release, but the government rejected the suggestion andoffered to release him on bail. Jatin died on September 13, 1929, after his unbroken hunger strikefor 63 days. Durga Bhabhi led the funeral procession of Jatin Das from Lahore to Kolkata. As hisbody was carried from Lahore to Kolkata by train, thousands of people rushed to every station topay their homage to the martyr. A two-mile long procession in Kolkata carried the coffin to thecremation ground. The hunger strike of Jatin Das in prison was one crucial moment in theresistance against illegal detentions. After his death, the Viceroy informed London: ‘Jatin Das of theConspiracy Case, who was on hunger strike, died this afternoon at 1 p.m. Last night, five of thehunger strikers gave up their hunger strike. So there are only Bhagat Singh and Dutt who are onstrike .’

SUBASH CHANDRA BOSE chronicled, "As the days rolled by, one by one the hunger-strikersdropped off, but young Jatin was invincible. He never hesitated, never faltered for one small secondbut marched straight on towards death and freedom. Every heart in the country melted but theheart of the bureaucracy did not. So Jatin died on September 13th. But he died a martyr's death.After his supreme sacrifice, the whole country gave him an ovation which few men in our recenthistory have received. As his body was removed from Lahore to Calcutta for cremation, peopleassembled in their thousands and tens of thousands at every station to pay their homage".

The highest tributes were paid by almost every leader in the country. Mohammad Alam and GopiChand Bhargava resigned from the Punjab Legislative Council in protest. Motilal Nehru proposedthe adjournment of the Central Assembly as a censure against the inhumanity of the Lahoreprisoners. The censure motion was carried by 55 votes against 47.

"Another name has been added to the long and splendid roll of INDIAN martyrs.Let us bow ourheads and pray for strength to act to carry on the struggle, however long it may be and whatever

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consequences , till the victory is ours."This is what Jawahar Lal Nehru said while commenting ondeath of Jatin Das.

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Wednesday, 15 October 2014

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MISSILE MAN OF INDIA.He is among the persons who lifted the glory of our country.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam worked very hard when there was total loss of belief.He proved that we couldindigenously build our own Launch vehicles and Missiles. A man of inspiration to all of us.Do not look at Agni as an entity directed upwardto deter the ominous or exhibit your might.It is firein the heart of an Indian. Do not even give itthe form of a missileas it clings to theburning pride of this nationand thus is bright.

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Sunday, 31 August 2014

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from ignited mindsI am sure on my part that India has the ability to transform itself into a developed nation. Throughmy projects in space, defence and nuclear sectors, I know that our people have the ability toachieve the best in the world. They have a fantastic mix of belief and knowledge that sets themapart from any other nation on earth. I also know that their potential has gone untapped becausewe have become used to being subjugated and docile. What better project can I undertake than totell my people that what they dream of can become possible, that they can have anything thatcomprises a good life: health, education, the freedom to pursue their goals, and above all,peace.Where are we making a mistake? What is it that needs to be corrected? We have a roadmapin our five-year plans that covers some of the things we need to achieve. We have most of thenecessary resources. There seems to be an attitude problem, as if we cannot shake ourselves outof a mindset of limited achievement. 'Start moving.' Leadership must lead us to prosperity. YoungIndians with constructive ideas should not have to see them wither in the long wait for approval.They have to rise above norms which are meant to keep them timid in the name of safety and todiscourage entrepreneurship in the name of trade regimes, organizational order and groupbehaviour. As it is said, Thinking is the capital, Enterprise is the way, Hard Work is the solution.Wehave all the resources we need, whether it be people, talent, natural bounty or other assets. India istruly blessed with a real, though latent, abundance. Scarcity of resources is not the cause of ourproblems. Our problems originate in our approach towards them. We are spreading our resourcestoo wide and too thin. With our resources and the money we spend we could easily accomplishthree times what we do, in half the time we normally take, if we were to operate in mission modewith a vision for the nation. The vision generates the best in every field.IGNITED MINDS.

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