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When Julian Barnes, author of A History of the World in10½ Chapters, wrote that “history isn’t what happened, history is just what historians tell us”, he was telling the truth, but only half of it. The reality is historians tell what their political masters/patrons often want us to be told.

Nothing explains this phenomenon better than the saga of Subhas Chandra Bose, whose role in India’s freedom struggle has been marginalised to such an extent that in the NCERT Class XII history textbook the very mention of Netaji’s INA (Indian National Army) exploits is conspicuous by their absence. The Independence movement has been appropriated by two men with Gandhi and Nehru surnames. More on the lines of a song from 1954 film Jagriti: “De di humein azadi bina khadag bina dhal. Sabarmati ke sant tune kar diya kamaal.”