We may not know the whole truth, but some information will be available when the MK Mukherjee Commision submits its report soon.

Were the words that I remembered hazily when I read this report. That the Congress has innumerable skeletons is well-known but only needs to be proved. And it spares no pains to let the status quo remain the way it is.

The Honourable Home Minister, Shivraj Patil, decades-long loyalist of the Dynasty is again trying to ensure that the Netaji mystery remains what it is: a mystery.

The haste with which the Government appears determined to close the Justice MK Mukherjee Commission is sure to be noted by future generations as confirmation that the Nehruvian Congress always had something to hide, about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s post-World War II whereabouts. [...] He has killed the Commission even though it is clear that Justice Mukherjee’s work would be incomplete if he is not permitted to go to Russia to investigate leads pointing to Netaji’s presence there after 1945. A curt letter sent by Patil’s Ministry (11034/18/98-NCB-11 dated November 19, 2004) asked Justice Mukherjee to submit the report of his inquiry before May 14, 2005 “as it has been decided that no further extension beyond 14.05.2005 will be allowed”.

The party of the aam aadmi (sic) is thus unilaterally deciding whether the people of India have a right to know about Subhas Bose or no. Call it good fortune or shrewd handpicking, the two earlier “reports” on the issue were made by certified dynasty loyalists. Shivraj Patil merely continues the legacy.

But Truth has a nasty way of springing surprises. Take the instance of chacha Nehru. The crap that our heads were filled up with during schooldays has been just recognized for what it is: among other writings, there’s hardly a blog in the Indian blog world that doesn’t contain a Nehru-bashing post. And what’s more curious, when people talk about the freedom struggle, Nehru, if at all, rarely figures in the list of heroes. And his pillars of modern India, his dams, his wind-castle of socialism, and his economic policies are now fodder for serious bashing if not the butt of jokes. In the words of Emerson, Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every virtue rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty.

So all we can hope is for the truth about Bose to surface later (or sooner) so we’ll add to the estimate of the magnitude of the Congress’ betrayal of the people.