UNSUNG HEROES OF INA- CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

RASH BEHARI BOSE, AIYAPPAN PILLAI MADHAVAN NAIR , MOHAN SINGH,  FOUNDER MEMBERS OF INA-    CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

Play the video above in low volume, while reading this post.  You must know what selflessness and love for the motherland is all about.

Let me re-write some Indian history-- let me exhume some unsung heroes .

Rash Behari Bose and Nair San, are Indians with Japanese wives. These two are the real force behind INA--never mind the propaganda of the Subhash Chandra Bose cheerleaders .

INA was handed over to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose on a platter by the Japanese when Captain Mohan Singh and RB Bose disbanded INA , as the Indian soldiers were suspicious of the real motives of the Japan, was to wrest india from Britain, and to use the INA soldiers as coolies for cheap hard labour,  which snooty Japanese soldiers did NOT want to do.

To revive INA Subhash Chandra Bose was called urgently requisitioned by the Japanese Prime Minister.  Subhash Chandra Bose was in Germany at that time having married a Jewish woman with whom he produced a daughter .

SC Bose was put on a German U-180  submarine and transferred to a I-29 Japanese submarine off Madagascar and taken to Japan for parleys with the Japanese Prime Minister. And then he arrived at Singapore in Field Marshall's uniform , to take over INA.  Talk about easy promotions in the military, for doing nothing.

See no matter how much BCCI and Lalit Modi tries to claim credit for original thinkin of IPL--this format was the brainchild of ICL of Zee TV.  Same way INA cannot be cedited to Subhash Chandra Bose.

Let me first talk about the unsung Bengali Indian Rash Behari Bose-- a great Indian patriot.

Rash Behari Bose  was born on 25 May 1886 at  Subaldaha village, Burdwan Dist., West Bengal, India.

He initiated the Ghadar Conspiracy that attempted to trigger a mutiny in India as early as February 1915. Trusted and tried Ghadarites were sent to several cantonments to infiltrate into the British army. The idea of the RB Bose was that with the war raging in Europe most of the soldiers had gone out of India and the rest could be easily won over. The revolution failed and most of the revolutionaries were arrested. But Rash Behari managed to escape British intelligence and reached Japan in 1915.

RB Bose was the brain child of the failed attempt and conspiracy to assassinate Lord Hardinge. Rash Behari was forced to go into hiding. He was hunted by the colonial police due to his active participation in bomb throwing at the Governor General and Viceroy Lord Charles Hardinge in Delhi (the bomb was actually thrown by Basanta Kumar Biswas, a disciple of Amarendra Chatterjee)

After throwing the bomb, Bose managed to escape arrest and went in hiding in Varanasi. With the help of the members of the Ghadar Party, he planned a simultaneous rebellion which would rock the whole of north India. The British, however, foiled all attempts of Bose to create unrest and arrested several of Bose's confidants; of which twenty- eight were hanged after trials under what came to be known as the Lahore Conspiracy Case.

There was a prize of Rs.7,500 on his head. His pictures were posted in all public places.  RB Bose managed to escape from India in 1915 and went to Japan where he lived as a fugitive. He  came to Saharanpur where Barrister J.M. Chatterji raised some money from his friends for his voyage to Japan. From Saharanpur, Rash Behari came back to Chandernagar from where he escaped to Japan under the assumed name of Raja P.N. Tagore, on a British passport--as a relative of Rabinndra Nath Tagore.

In June 1915, Rash Behari reached Tokyo. He convened there a meeting of the sponsors of the Indian Freedom Movement, in the famous 'Sayoken' Hotel on 25th November, 1915. Besides reputed revolutionaries and the Japanese sympathizers, the meeting was also attended by the Punjab Lion, Lala Lajpat Rai. The meeting aroused awareness of the Japanese people about India and the efforts of the freedomfighters and revolutionaries.

From 1915–1918, RB Bose changed residences and identities numerous times, as the British kept pressing the Japanese government for his extradition. He married the daughter of Soma Aizo and Soma Kotsuko, the owner of Nakamuraya restaurant in Tokyo in 1918 and became a Japanese citizen ( with an Indian heart ) in 1923, living as a journalist and writer.

But in pursuance of the conditions of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, the Japanese Government was forced to direct Rash Behari and his associate, Herambalal Gupta, to leave the shores of Japan before the 2nd of December.  However, the Japanese people and the press came out openly supporting Rash Behari. The elderly political leader, Mitsui Toyama, assured help and protection to Rash Behari. Mr. Aizo Zoma, a man of fortune and owner of the most reputed Japanese Hotel, 'Naka Muraya', negotiated with Mr. Toyama through Mr. Naka Mura, Editor of Niroku, and provided secret hiding for Rash Behari in the cellar of the influential hotel.

During his stay in 'Naka Muraya', Mr. and Mrs. Zoma, who bestowed on him loving care, developed a filial affection for Rash Behari. They offered their eldest daughter, Tosiko, in marriage to Rash Behari. The couple had two children Masahide a boy, and a Tetaku a girl.  Tosiko died at the age of 28, in March 1928 .

As soon as the Second World War broke out, Rash Behari Bose found another great opportunity to make an attempt to liberate his Motherland. On 15th February 1942, Singapore fell into the hands of Japan. On that day 15,000 British, 13,000 Australian and 32,000 Indian soldiers were there in Singapore, and all of them were taken as prisoners of war by the Japanese. Japan also took over Malaya and established her authority over the country of fifty lakhs of people, among whom three lakhs were Indians. 

A brilliant idea crossed across the mind of Rash Behari Bose, about forming a Liberation Army to invade India and fight the British ,from outside.

Major Fujihara, a Japanese officer, used his interpreter Giani Pritam Singh and requested Mohan Singh to form an Indian Army comprising the captured Indian soldiers. Mohan Singh hesitated but ultimately agreed.. Fujihara handed over about 40,000 Indian soldiers, who had surrendered to him, to Mohan Singh. It was actually the first step towards the formation of the INA.

So, on February 15, 1942 the Indian National Army (INA) was formed by Captain Mohan Singh. In addition to the INA was the India Independence League which was headed by Rashbehari Bose. Other leaders included Kesava (KPK) Menon who was the political guru and SC Guha. There were military officers in it from the INA.

 They all went to Tokyo to meet the Japanese government and get assurances from them that the INA would be given the status of an allied army. Unfortunately, the Japanese only verbally agreed to this but never officially ratified them. This was the reason why Mohan Singh and Kesava Menon feeling they could not trust the Japanese and Mohan Singh decided to disband the INA. Mohan Singh was subsequently arrested by the Japanese on Dec 29th 1942, and exiled to Pulau Ubin.

RB Bose along with A M Nair was instrumental in persuading the Japanese authorities to stand by the Indian nationalists and ultimately to support actively the Indian freedom struggle abroad. RB Bose convened a conference in Tokyo on 28–30 March 1942, which decided to establish the Indian Independence League. At the conference he moved a motion to raise an army for Indian liberation.

From June 14 to 23 1942, a second conference of Indians was held in the East in Bangkok. Representatives of about three lakhs of Indians scattered all over Java, Sumatra, Indo-China, Borneo, Manchuko, Hongkong, Burma, Malaya and Japan had gathered in large numbers. The conference presented a memorandum to Japan requesting that its demand for equal rights and status for the Azad Hind Fauz of Free India be conceded. The meeting also constituted the War Council of the League with Rash Behari Bose as the first President and Mr. M. Raghavan, K.R.K. Menon, Captain Mohan Singh and Colonel G.K. Gillani as other members.

The Indian prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Malaya and Burma fronts were encouraged to join the Indian Independence League and become the soldiers of the Indian National Army (INA), formed on 1 September 1942 as the military wing of Bose's Indian National League. RB Bose selected the flag called as Azad .

In 1940, our hero Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was imprisoned by the British for his anti-colonial activities. While in prison in India , Bose went on a hunger strike. The British put him under house arrest. He subsequently escaped to Germany through Afghanistan by pretending to be a deaf-mute Pathan. Bose reached Berlin on 2 April 1941, where he began advocating India’s Independence through radio broadcasts.

In January 1943, the Japanese invited SC Bose to lead the Indian nationalist movement in East Asia. He accepted and left Germany on 8 February.

Subhash Chandra Bose left for Japan in a German submarine , and hopped on to a Japanese submarine midsea off Madagascar and arrived in Tokyo on 13 June 1943. Hideki Tojo, the Japanese Prime Minister (1941-44), accorded him a cordial reception on his arrival. The Prime Minister declared in their parliament that Japan would advance all sorts of help to India in its fight for independence.

In Tokyo, SC Bose made a number of radio broadcasts to the Indian communities and exhorted them to join in the fight for India’s Independence.

SC Bose reached Tokyo by Japanese submarine on June 20.  On July 2, he reached Singapore where the Indians, Chinese and the Japanese accorded him an unprecedented welcome. Addressing a mammoth gathering, he gave the call to Indians—"Chalo Delhi" (march on to Delhi).

On July 5, 1943, Rash Behari Bose officially conferred on Subhash Bose the Presidentship of Indian Independence League ( as per Japanese wish ) and constituted himself as his adviser. Soon under the captaincy of Laxmi Sehgal , the Rani Laxmi Regiment was formed.


On 25th August, 1943, Subhash assumed the Supreme Command of the Free Indian National Army.

On 21 October 1943, SC Bose announced the formation of the Provisional Government of Azad Hind (Free India), with himself as the Head of State, Prime Minister and Minister of War.

Mohan Singh was NOT reinstated to the INA--which showed the real worth of Netaji Bose.

Netaji wanted money. Many Indian civilians from Malaya, Thailand and Burma responded enthusiastically. They contributed money and gold generously to the INA Fund. The gold came mostly from women who readily gave up their jewellery while wealthy Indian families donated large sums of money after attending Bose’s rallies and meetings. Other forms of contributions included clothing, foodstuffs and other supplies that the INA could use.

At the huge rally organized by the Indian Independence League at Singapore to welcome Netaji, he sudenly announced that he would like to auction the garlands that had been put around his neck. “The bid started with Rs 1 lakh (in 1943 it was more than rupees fifty lakh of today). The first garland was auctioned for Rs 1 crore and 3 lakh, which was purchased by a Muslim industrialist of Malaya, Habibur Rehman. He also volunteered his services to join the movement.

The Indian women selflessly offered their gold ornaments. Total collections at this auction were about Rs 25 crore --a king's ransom those days.

By April 1944, the Azad Hind Bank was established in Rangoon to manage the overwhelming donations from the Indian communities. Abid Hasan Safrani coined the salutation "Jai Hind" (Hail India).

It was decided that only a regiment of the Indian soldiers would take part in the fight with the Japanese as a detached unit. If they could prove themselves equal to the Japanese, more Indians would be permitted to march to the border. A new brigade named Subhash Brigade was formed with select soldiers from the erstwhile Gandhi, Azad and Nehru Brigades. The rest were shipped off to Rabaul to dig tunnels -- a deception most foul, by the Japanese.

The army after training, started their advance towards India from Burma and had even reached Imphal town on Indian soil. They were however beaten back by the British soldiers afterwords. The INA later collapsed and Subhash Chandra Bose disappeared from the political scene mysteriously.

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose arrived from from Saigon on, August 23, 1945 at Dairen (Manchuria) at 1:30 PM.. This was was a Japanese bomber plane.  It was full of gold in the shape of bars, Indian ornaments and jewelry.   Netaji carried two attache cases, one in each hand.  On alighting from the plane, Netaji took tea with bananas.  When Netaji finished tea, he along with four others, out of which one was a Japanese named General Shidei climbed into a jeep standing nearby and proceeded toward Russian territory. After about 3 hours the  jeep returned and informed the waiting pilot of the plane who flew back to Tokyo.

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was never seen again. He resurfaced in India and lived for many years as a Mauni (Silent ) Baba behind a curtain.  He had done this fancy dress thing before, as a dumb and deaf Pathan,  and was in familiar territory.




Netaji did NOT want the fate of Hideki Tojo, the Prime Minister of Japan who was hung to death.


He also did NOT have the courage to face his own men of INA, who were fooled into digging tunnels at Rabaul.  He had also told them a big lie that since he did NOT have children every soldier of INA was his child. They gave him blood and in return he betrayed their trust.


Read my post by punching into Google search NETAJI SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE, UNTOLD SECRETS OF RABAUL TUNNELS- VADAKAYIL and be shocked.

RB Bose had great organizational skill and a wonderful spirit of sacrifice. Hardly anybody knows

On 21st January, 1945, Rash Behari died of heart attack at Tokyo. He was cremated by the Buddhist rites and his ashes were buried in Yama Cemetery.

Prior to being killed near the end of World War II, the Japanese Government honoured RB Bose  with the Order of the Rising Sun (2nd grade).

But the honour done by the Emperor of Japan on his demise is more touching. The Imperial coach was sent to carry the dead body of the Indian veteran revolutionary. In 1959, when the ashes of Rash Behari were brought to India by his daughter, Tetsu Higuchi, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the then President of India, paid to the noble son of Bharat a glowing tribute in which he said, "Rash Behari Bose was one of those well-known patriots whose love for the Motherland and burning desire to see her free could never be curbed."

MOHAN SINGH-- He was born the only son of Tara Singh and Hukam Kaur, a peasant couple of Ugoke village, near Sialkot (now in Pakistan).

Above RB Bose and Mohan Singh

At the Indian Military Academy, Dehra Dun, he received his commission in 1934 and was posted for a year to a British unit, the 2nd Border Regiment, and then to 1st Battalion of his former 14th Punjab Regiment, which at that time happened to be at Jhelum. World War II broke out in 1939.

Upon Japan's defeat, Mohan Singh was taken into custody by the British and repatriated to India to face trials. However, due to public pressure, roused by the INA Red Fort trials, Mohan Singh was only cashiered from the Army.

Following Indian independence, Mohan Singh later served in public life as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha (Upper House) of the Indian Parliament.

Aiyappan-Pillai Madhavan Nair (1905–1990), also known as Nair-san, was involved in the formation of INA. 

He was sent to Japan by his elder brother to escape capture and imprisonment by the British. He studied engineering in Japan at Kyoto University.  During the Second World War, Nair San joined the Indian Independence league in Japan under Rash Behari Bose. He was the Japanese transpator for SC Bose.  Nair-san considered Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose to be a Fascist.  In 1949, Nair founded an Indian restaurant in Ginza, Tokyo.

Nair San  made it a point to visit the embassy on August 15 and January 26 to salute the nation till he died...

Nair was given the Order of the Sacred Treasure (Kun zuihosho) by Emperor Hirohito in November 1984.

He died on April 22, 1990 since 1949, when Nair's was the first authentic Indian eatery to open in Japan -- in its present location in Ginza, Tokyo.

 A Hollywood movie Nair-San starring Jackie Chan and Mohan Lal will be produced soon.

Winston Churchill deliberately started 5.2 million Bengalis , as retribution for Indians jumping from British boat to Japanese boat in mid-river. 

Punch into Google search AMARTYA SEN GETS NOBEL PRIZE FOR WHITE WASHING CHURCHILL'S HOLOCAUST- VADAKAYIL

I will post a separate piece on Rash Behari and Bagha Jatin ( the Bengal tiger of India )

Now, some doodh ka doodh paani ka paani--

The cry JAI HIND was NOT coined by Netaji Bose.  It was made by Dr Champakaraman Pillai ,  who formed the Berlin Committee in Germany to assist freedom fighters before the 1^st World war . He  had direct dealings with Hitler. He died on May 28th, 1934 under suspicious circumstances , because he asked for a written apology from Hitler with a deadline, for derogatory reference to Indians in his book Mein Kamph.. His ashes were scattered in Karamana River in Thiruvananthapuram.  His ashes could not be brought in before, due to objections from Gandhiji and Nehru . The Indian Navy's warship, I.N.S. Delhi, flying the flag of Free India, brought the great patriot Pillai's ashes to Cochin on September 16, 1966.   He had come to Madras on German battleship, SS Emden and angrez ka ghar mein ghuske maara.  

Rash Behari Bose was in Japan taking shelter with Mitsuru Toyama, head of the dreaded Yakuza.

Bagha Jatin the great patriot was in charge in India —the Bengal Tiger of India.

Pandit Shyamaji Krishnavarma, formed  Indian Home Rule Society, India House in London . His ashes too were rejected by Gandhi and Nehru.  Finally Bollywood actor Vinod Khanna , Narendra Modi , and others etc pulled levers, and this great patriot's ashes was officially handed over to the Chief Minister of Gujarat State on August 22, 2003,  by the Ville de Genève and the Swiss government, 55 years after Indian Independence.

Well what do we know?-- the young generation knows Diggi Vijay , Ambika Soni , Anand Sharma , Kapil Sibal etc , right?

Grace and peace!

 CAPT AJIT VADAKAYIL

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