Oi Mahamanab Ase - Life after death of Subhas Bose - 5

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After reading Oi Mahamanab Ase, people will have no doubt as to who the great man was. He often meandered in the course of his conversations with the disciples in the deepest and most profound secrets of his afterlife. He delved into his past life occasionally, to reinforce who he was. How do we reconstruct what happened to him on or after 16th of August. Oi Mahamanab Ase gives a sketch. There was a second bomber, he says. Kimura was also in that. Who was this Kimura? There was one Lt. General Kimura who was proclaimed as a war criminal by the international court, surely he did not escape. The second bomber carried him to a place nearer to Saigon, and not to Taihoku as is widely believed. His adjutant (Habibur Rahman), according to him, was a perfect man as he obeyed his order till his death, never revealing even under the gravest provocation and torture, never, except couple of times. Once, to Sunil Krishna Gupta, another time to possibly Sarat Bose. He and the Japanese generals together framed the story, but because of the language barriers and the short time available their were many open gaps and inconsistencies in their narratives. Still, the narrative was largely credible to a gullible public and to the intelligence officials who had wished for Subhas's death. They had suspicions but never brought them to the public. British intelligence thought that Subhas being dead would serve as a great demoralizing circumstance to the Indians craving for the independence. But it was not to be. Coming back to the true story. Probably Netaji was in Dalat, an hour from Saigon, since that was where Alfred Wagg saw him on 19th Aug. From there he took a jeep and went to Manchuria. He crossed over to Manchuria on 22nd Aug, with the help of "Black Dragon society", the same society that had helped Rashbehari Bose to settle in Japan and escape the British intelligence during his earlier days. He went to the land of bears (Russia). He had already made all arrangements by talking to their leader in December 1944. Netaji had disappeared for a couple of weeks in Dec 1944. During this time he had taken the help of Yakov Malik, the ambassador of Russia in Japan and had met Stalin. He had prearranged his escape from the allied forces and decided to continue his struggle for freedom from the Russian soil. A provisional Azad Hind Government was formed in Omsk. After that Oi Mahamanab Ase is quiet on the treatment meted out by the Russians, but we can only guess. He was in a Gulag in Siberia, in extreme cold, where he had himself seen or experienced the unimaginable hardship of the prisoners who included political leaders, military leaders, scientists, doctors and many other people. Out of the pangs of hunger they ate their own flesh. They were forced to keep their back hot through extreme hard work. many perished, being unable to withstand the hardship. Possibly General Shidei too was taken a prisoner and died in Russia. Mahakal said he had done a favour to Krishna Menon, the pro communist foreign minister under Nehru, and he had returned the favour. Did Krishna Menon know about Netaji's fate in Gulag? Was he really a prisoner of the cell no. 46 in Yakutsk as claimed by Dr. Satyanarayan Sinha's Russian source? We would never know, and Mahakal is not so explicit. He was grateful to the Russians. They did not treat him that bad, according to him. Then he took their permission and went to China. In China he possibly helped Mao to come to power by providing him with military strategy and also fought guerrilla style wars for him. Mao was ever grateful and considered him as brother. There are in fact touching scenes on how the great Mao was getting emotional while offering him the best brand of cigars (British) that he kept specially for his friend Mahakal. Most of these Asian leaders had nothing but respect for him because they saw that he wanted nothing for himself, had nothing, no possessions, lived like a skeleton and had only the welfare of others in mind. He rued that every other country's leaders respected him, other than his own. He was a strategic adviser to many of these Asian leaders, including Ho Chi Minh and Mao. He claimed that since world war 2, America, the mightiest nation had fought atleast fifty wars but could not win a single of them ("thingle", he said, imitating Churchill. The latter could not pronounce "s"). He predicted that America, despite their military power, would not be able to win the Vietnam war even in thousand years. He had a healthy relationship with Russian leaders. He freely mixed with their upper echelons and had seen the naked and bitter truth, that communism was just a cover the hide the hideousness beneath - of lust and greed. His initial infatuation for Russia had gone away, never to return. He saw and experienced their true colours. He began to hate communism. He said that mother had saved him by rendering him a dead man. Had he not been dead to the country and its people, he would have to justify his earlier notions and remarks - that he had said something different twenty years earlier. He had respect for Mao's real intention, of establishing the cultural superiority of China over the foreign influence, but did not support his methods. Also he would be supportive of China as long as they did not damage India's interest. The 1962 war was his game plan, of exposing Nehru's faulty and hypocritical policies. But moment China had crossed its limit by going too far he pulled the wires. He knew that Pakistan was going to split into two and he had envisioned that it would be further split from within. He had tilted the diplomacy in favour of India during 1965 and 1971 wars so that despite having overwhelming support of the Britain and Americas, Pakistan could not hold on its own and China and Russia did not intervene in the conflicts, although Britain and America had hoped for China's participation in 1971 war. Therefore Bangladesh could be born. Also it was apparent that he had a role to play in training the Mukti Bahini in guerrilla warefare tactics that paid off very well against the Pakistany army.