Shame on you for dishonouring Nehru and Netaji

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Nehru and Bose. The two were mirror images of each other.

Good looking, charming, arrogant, imperious, well informed and widely travelled, from upper caste backgrounds and wealthy families, and above all, charismatic to a fault. Tough to see how they could have coexisted in the same frame. The surprise was not how they parted ways but how they managed to stay together for quite a while.

Till 1938 Nehru and Bose were the two young Turks always shaking a sleepy Congress, dominated by Gandhi who appeared to have the patience of Job. Bose was younger and stormier of the two, forever ready to go where angels feared to tread. So probably was Nehru but he was careful never to cross the Lakshman Rekha vis-a-vis Gandhi.

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