INNAMBURAN PAGES: 21 AUGUST 1907

INNAMBURAN PAGES: 21 AUGUST 1907

“ Uyirinban” was a man of the masses. He led a humble life. Daily commuting in III class in the suburban trains  from Tambaram to various places of his public engagements, he mingled with one and all with ease, en route. He was a most persuasive orator and could attract and retain the attention of the man in the street by his simple and convincing presentation of his themes. His democratic spirit, his progressive outlook in different spheres and his total dedication to the Common Cause made him a legend in his lifetime. He was drawn to Mahatma Gandhi, but chose to question his standpoints in a letter to him, while he was running an ashram at Siravayal, a village in Chettinadu. When Mahatma Gandhi came South, he expressed his desire to meet him and insisted upon visiting him in his abode. He was met there by a 25 year old youngman, much to his surprise. It is said that Gandhiji asked him about what he owned and the reply was ‘the Nation’. Gnadhiji, it seems, told him that the nation had owned him. 

He founded the Tamil Nadu Art-Literary Federation (Tamil Nadu Kalai Ilakkiya Perumandram) in 1961, which is the fountainhead of progressive Tamil Literature. He worked tirelessly for due recognition to unsensored Mahakavi Subrahmanya Bharathiyar's literary contribution. There is an interesting story about his name. His given name is Sorimuthu, the name of a deity. He called hims Jeevanandam and got it translated as “ Uyirinban” in chaste Tamil. One day, he called on Maraimalai Adigal, the great Tamil savant, who doggedly pursued chaste Tamil to the extent of translating his given name of Vedagiri as Maraimalai, who queried whether it was the post man. His use of an English word in casual conversation convinced P.Jeevanandam to revert to his earlier name. We all knew him as our Jeeva. I heard him last in 1953 or so. Clad in an ordinary shirt and kaki half-trousers, he was as obscure as any one on the motley crowd. He held us all spell bound. His contribution to society in a short life of fifty six years is monumental.  His funeral was attended by 200,000 mourners. His simultaneous friendship with Rajaji, EVR and Kamaraj, each being distant lodestars, is indicative of they being drawn to him.

You should know more about him by reading the well written research article cited by me.

Reference:

http://www.vvvcjournal.in/assets/journalsnew/september2015/2016article28.pdf

INNAMBURAN PAGES: 19 AUGUST 1934

Lord Acton famously said, "Power Corrupts: Absolute Power corrupt absolutely." History is dotted with the black spots of Democracy unerringly degenerating into Dictatorship of unspeakable horrors like the Holocaust, as it happened this day in 1934 in Germany and that intolerable authoritarian governance like the Czardom in Russia and the degenerate French Empires falling like ninepins in bloody Revolutions. They, in turn, become tyrannies. This inescapable circuitry is the bane of civilization. A look at the unfortunate and rigged-up Referendum 1934 will now be in order.

INNAMBURAN PAGES: 18 AUGUST,1945

Update 21 08 2019

Srijit Mukherji seeks answers to Bose 'death' mystery in new film

National Award-winning filmmaker Srijit Mukherji has questioned a tweet by Press Information Bureau that claims August 18 is Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death anniversary. If we put a definite date to Bose's demise, we accept the plane crash theory is the true explanation of his death, he pointed out.

Mumbai: National Award-winning filmmaker Srijit Mukherji has questioned a tweet by Press Information Bureau that claims August 18 is Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death anniversary. If we put a definite date to Bose's demise, we accept the plane crash theory is the true explanation of his death, he pointed out.

"We are not in a position to accept beyond questioning any of the three theories pertaining to his death," Srijit said.

On Sunday, the central government's Press Information Bureau (PIB) landed in controversy after paying homage to the late freedom fighter Bose, in a tweet claiming August 18 was his death anniversary.

"#PIB remembers the great freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose on his death anniversary. #Netaji #subhashchandrabose," went the PIB tweet, along with a photograph of the freedom fighter.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was the first person to protest against this tweet, saying no one still knows for sure if Bose indeed died on that day. She tweeted: "On this day, in 1945, Netaji went on a flight from Taihoku Airport in Taiwan, only to disappear forever. We still do not know what happened to him. People have a right to know about the great son of the soil."

Asked if we should accept August 18 as Bose's death anniversary, Srijit told IANS: "Even if you want to mention August 18 as his (Netaji's) death anniversary, the word death should be written within quotes. There are a lot of theories and proofs that say the plane crash never happened on August 18, 1945. That theory is under a lot of examination. So, if you call it his death anniversary, then you kind of accept that the plane crash theory is true. I don't think we are in a position to accept beyond questioning any of the three theories pertaining to his death."

On the work front, Srijit Mukherji is preparing for the release of "Gumnaami", a Hindi-Bengali bilingual mystery film written and directed by him, and based on Bose's disappearance.

"The film deals with the three theories behind Netaji's death. The first being the plane crash theory, the second being the theory that suggest his death happened in Russia, and the third theory being that he came back to India and died as Gumnaami baba. The film mainly deals with the Mukherjee commission proceedings, where all theories were discussed, debated and questioned," said Srijit.

Asked why he chose to make a movie on this subject, Srijit replied: "Netaji has intrigued me since childhood. He has been an inspirational figure for all of us in Bengal. I consider him to be the true liberator of India. I do not want his life and death to remain shrouded in mystery. The film should hopefully clear a lot of confusion about his death."

"Gumnaami" stars Tollywood superstar Prosenjit Chatterjee and is expected to hit theatres in October.  

Update from the Hindu: August 19, 2019

Controversy in West Bengal over PIB news on ‘Netaji’

Political parties refuse to accept his ‘death’ in plane crash

Special Correspondent

A controversy broke out on Sunday in connection with statements related to the “disappearance” of Subhas Chandra Bose (Netaji) as on August 18, 1945, when a plane, with Bose allegedly on board, crashed near Taihoku (now in Taiwan).

West Bengal’s political parties, unanimously, refuse to accept Bose’s death on this day, and condemned a social media statement by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) indicating that he died on this day.

Many BJP and Congress leaders at the national level also indicated that Bose died on this day fuelling the controversy. 

First to react was Chief Minister and Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee. “On this day, in 1945, Netaji went on a flight from Taihoku Airport in Taiwan, only to disappear forever. We still do not know what happened to him. People have a right to know about the great son of the soil,” tweeted Ms. Banerjee. 

Bengal BJP leader and one of the grand nephews of Netaji, Chandra Kumar Bose, tweeted in line with what the TMC chief said.

“18 August-on this day in 1945 #Netaji disappeared from Taihoku. Official version of the Govt [Government]-Netaji perished in an aircrash. However many inconsistencies were found. It [is] imperative for the Govt. to disclose the truth to stop spreading untruth,” noted Mr. Bose, a BJP Lok Sabha candidate. 

All India Forward Bloc [AIFB], founded by Boseissued a strongly worded statement seeking an apology from PIB.

INNAMBURAN PAGES: 18 AUGUST,1945

Nethaji Subhas Chandra Bose is an immortal, dwelling in the innermost recesses of the hearts of all Indians. We know he was born on January 23, 1897. It is chronicled that he died on 18 August 1945, though the controversy about the manner, timing and place of his death is alive. 

He subscribed to the faith of St Mathew, perhaps! His motto also was 

"He that is not with me is against me.(St. Matthew xii. 30.) 

This explains his parting of ways with Mahatma Gandhi, his Great Escape from 80, Elgin Road, Calcutta, his house where he was confined by the colonial government. He hobnobbed with the Russian leaders, Hitler and the Japanese as enemies of his enemy were his friends.I recall Joachim Alva's inimitable Forum carrying a photograph of a banner to that effect.

Elected as the President of Indian National Congress at Tripura and Haripura in 1938 & 1939, he was unceremoniously dethroned thanks to internecine machinations encouraged by Mahatma Gandhi. 

A student leader as a patriot, he was expelled from his college as early as 1916. He passed the ICS examination in 1920, but did not join the imperial government service, because of his intense nationalism. "...Bose was soon after deported to Burma (Myanmar) because he was suspected of connections with secret revolutionary movements. Released in 1927, he returned to find Bengal Congress affairs in disarray after the death of Das, and Bose was elected president of the Bengal Congress. Shortly thereafter he and Jawaharlal Nehru became the two general secretaries of the Indian National Congress. Together they represented the more militant, left-wing faction of the party against the more compromising, right-wing Gandhian faction..."

"..A little more than a year after the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia, Bose left Germany, traveling by German and Japanese submarinesand by plane, and arrived in May 1943 in Tokyo. On July 4 he assumed leadership of the Indian Independence Movement in East Asia and proceeded, with Japanese aid and influence, to form a trained army...A few days after Japan’s announced surrender in August 1945, Bose, fleeing Southeast Asia, reportedly died in a Japanese hospital in Taiwan as a result of burn injuries from a plane crash.

Footnote: I was also a student-politician, at the risk of my father's job under the colonial government. A devotee of Mahatma Gandhi, I  switched my loyalties  to Nethaji and went on lecturing, much against the school's rules, for the Nethaji's Forward Bloc. That placed me under police surveillance.

Reference & quoted excerpts from

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Adam Zeidan, Assistant Editor.

Innamburan Pages: 17 August 1945

Innamburan Pages: 17 August 1945

"...On 17 August 1945 the Indonesian nationalist forces unilaterally declared Indonesian independence after almost 350 years of Dutch rule. Five years of revolution and military hostilities with the Dutch occupation followed. As a result of the intervention of the British and the United Nations Security Council, agreement between the Dutch and Indonesians was reached on 2 November 1949. The Republic of the United States of Indonesia was granted complete and unconditional sovereignty on 27 December 1949.

The Australian government played a significant role in the diplomatic negotiations during this period, with the Minister for External Affairs, Herbert Vere Evatt, taking a keen interest in developments in Indonesia..."

Source: National Archives of Australia

Innamburan Pages: 16 August 1886

Innamburan Pages: 16 August 1886




Ramakrishna in bhava samadhi at the house of Keshab Chandra Sen.

Dr. Alexis Carrell, the Nobel Laureate, mused over ' Man, the Unknowable'  in his classic, Man, the Unknown. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was/is/ will ever be one such rare ' Unknowable'. He was born in an orthodox Hindu Brahmin Priestly family. It is said that his parents had visions about his intense devotion to God. He used to fall into trances as a boy. He was made to marry a five-year old girl, Sarada; he was already leading a monastic life and took to  worshipping her as Mother Goddess.

A priest at the Dakhineswher Kali Temple from 1856, he was initiated into the mysteries of Tantric rites by Bhairavi Brahmani five years later. He came under the influence of the Vaishnavite Acharya Jatadhari in 1864, and  took up the practise of vātsalya bhāva. The very next year, Toto Puri, the Advaintin initiated him into Sannyasa. The very next year

Govinda Roy, a Hindu guru who practised Sufism, initiated Ramakrishna into Islam. By 1873 he began to practise Christianity also and the Bible was read to him. All this in a life span of fifty years!

Bhakthi is much more than devotion and calls for an immersive submergence into the Godhead -  vātsalya bhāva,dāsya bhāva and so on. His Sadhana, it is said, elevated his bhavamukha viz. the Bliss. 

I carry a pocket book of his parables and one therefrom translates as under: "It is well nigh impossible to explain  the husband-wife relationship to a little boy. It is as difficult to explain the Bliss of Transcendence to one deeply attached to the material world."

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa's last days were poignant. he suffered unbearable pain -cancer.Narendra, whom he anointed as Svami Vivekananda, was all alone by his bedside, one day. Waking up with tears in his after after a spell of Samadhi, Sri Ramakrishna told him, "Today I have given you my all and I am now only a poor fakir, possessing nothing. By this power you will do immense good in the world, and not until it is accomplished will you return."  Narendra had his own misgivings on contemplation and said to himself, "If in the midst of this racking physical pain he declares his Godhead, then only shall I accept him as an Incarnation of God." The Master smiled. Gathering his remaining strength, he distinctly said, "He who was Rama and Krishna is now, in this body, Ramakrishna — but not in your Vedantic sense." Narendra was stricken with shame. Henceforth the Master lived in the disciple. 

 Reference: https://www.ramakrishnavivekananda.info/gospel/introduction/last_days.htm

Innamburan Pages: 15 August 1947

Innamburan Pages: 15 August 1947

Indian Independence Act 1947

1947 CHAPTER 30 10 and 11 Geo 6

An Act to make provision for the setting up in India of two independent Dominions, to substitute other provisions for certain provisions of the Government of India Act 1935, which apply outside those Dominions, and to provide for other matters consequential on or connected with the setting up of those Dominions
[18th July 1947]

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/10-11/30

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Page last updated at 08:46 GMT, Friday, 15 August 2008 09:46 UK When  History turns her pages and finds herself, to her and our pleasant surprise, on an exciting new chapter, claimants rush to claim their hour of glory, as did the rhetoric of the Atlantic Charter, as we saw yesterday. President Roosevelt is attributed that honour. Actually way back, President Woodrow Wilson made a similar plea Great Britain, which was obsessed with her imperial ambitions. Wilson's conscience was troubled by a letter from Sir S.Subramania Iyer, surreptitiously delivered to him by a theosophist. That letter bemoaned the arrest of Annie Besant by the colonial government for her vigorous Home Rule movement and sought the good will interceding by USA with Great britain for early liberation of India. Actually, the Indian National Congress, which spearheaded the Independence Movement, was born in  a meeting in Madras, with Sir S.Subramania Iyer in the chair with Sir Alan Octavian Hiume in tow. This was followed by a meeting in Bombay, with Hume in the chair, when the template were drawn. We had friends like Kingsley Martin, Fenner Brockway in Great Britain. Kingsley Martin's New Statesman Lunch is a monthly event looked forward to. In one meeting, Jawaharlal Nehru, the freedom fighter was the chief guest and a gentleman quietly attending the meeting from an obscure corner was  Clement Attlee, who was to pilot the Bill which got enacted as the Indian Independence Act 1947. It is strange, but, true, the mind of the Indian Public in distant shores was reflected by the British Parliament. Not surprisingly, India and Great Britain had come closer at this historic moment to such an extent that our first Governor General was a Britisher and India chose to remain in the Commonwealth. Unfortunately, the Indian Nation was partitioned; the accompanying violence and trauma is still a blot on all of us. This is the time for us to introspect on our failings with humility and on our patriot-forefathers like Lokmanya Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai, Bipin Chandra Pal ( known as the Bal-Lal-Pal Trinity and a host of others ranging from Gokale, Mahatma Gandhi, Rajaji, Sardar Patel, Chittaranjan Das, Nethaji Subhas Chandra Bose and countless many. We pay a humble tribute to them and vow to tell our children about them. Personal reminisces are in order at this stage. I was a High School student that day at Pudukkottai; none of our houses had the luxury of a radio, those days. We gathered in the street corner junction of East Main Road and North Main Road, opposite Brindavan Cafe, who had mounted a loud speaker and a large crowd of us heard with reverence laced with affection, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru about our tryst with Destiny. the Cafe plied us with coffee and sweets. We all returned home in a spell of euphoria, which lasted till the morning; we did not sleep, but went on dreaming about India and her future.

Innamburan Page: 14 August 1941

Innamburan Page: 14 August 1941

Good Governance involves an element of secrecy being observes on select issues, in public interest. The most recent evidence is the adroit handling of the nettlesome Kashmir issue by the Government of India, bringing about astounding tectonic changes like rendering the Sacred Cow of Article 370 null and void and carving out new Union Territories, the secret confabulations and preparations for over six months speaks volumes about the secret work paying dividends. 

Atlantic Charter is the outcome of one such confabulation between

Great Britain and USA. Though the mysterious absence of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt(USA) and Prime Minister Winston Churchill(UK) during crucial days was noticed and commented upon, no one knew what they were upto. They were engaged in freewheeling discussions on how to bring about the downfall of  Hitler, aboard the American cruiser, USS Augusta, and the British battleship, HMS Prince of Wales, anchored in Placentia Bay in Newfoundland. The  Atlantic Charter signed then on 14 08 1941 undertook that UK & USA would act as under:

any changes to a country's territory should only happen with the agreement of the people living there it is the right of everyone to choose the government under which they will live self-government should be restored to those who have lost it there should be free trade between all nations improvements in the economy and in living standards should be available to all there should be peace following what the Charter calls "the end of Nazi tyranny" peace should enable freedom of movement around the world a belief that aggressive nations must be disarmed if the world is to live at peace Mr Churchill had met Mr Roosevelt as heads of their respective governments for the first time; their discussions were thought to have covered several other matters, such as the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June, the supply of weapons under the Lend-Lease Act, and the threat to Britain's lifeline in the Battle of the Atlantic. More importantly, they became close and trustworthy friends for all times to come. Even though, USA was coy about its participating in the war, implicit understanding was seemingly there. Japan's Pearl Harbour Attack decided the issue, barely four months later.

We read about the manner Post War Germany was parcelled and packed for the occupational rights of there of these very Allies, as a sequel to the Yalta Conference, yesterday. No wonder President Syngman Rhee of South Korea declared that there was no International Law, in a different context! This, I speak, from memory.

Great Britain's, particularly Churchill's, imperial ambitions were no state secret and the pious declarations two, three and four, it is claimed prepared the ground for India's Independence on 15 august 1947. Naturally that event will be the dominant subject for tomorrow.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/14/newsid_3536000/3536533.stm
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