Lone Wolf Ratnakar

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You wanted magic. I tried to give you logic. But logic is in bad odor when the popular mind is excited. You wanted mantaram, I am not a Rishi and cannot give mantaram…I have never spoken a half-truth when I know the truth…I have never tried to lead people in faith blind-folded. It was the 1921 Congress session, when one of the delegates made this scathing attack on none other than Mahatma Gandhi.  The attack was on Gandhi’s support to the Khilafat movement, which he felt was a disastrous move.  While Gandhi felt supporting Khilafat movement, would bring about Hindu-Muslim unity, he felt it would only promote Pan Islamism. This man was was Bipin Chandra Pal, one of the members of the Lal-Bal-Pal trio in Congress, others being  Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Lala Lajpat Rai. A nationalist,  writer and thinker, and above all, a man who was uncomprosingly independent in his views.

Even among the Lal Bal Pal trio, Bipin Chandra Pal is not as well known as the other two. His opposition to the Mahatma, cost him a lot politically, and his name was obscured out. But more needs to be known about this man and the vision he had of the dangers we would face.

Sadly with the Congress marginalizing him, he spent his last days in relative obscurity and loneliness. And on May 20, 1932 one of the tallest leaders of the freedom struggle, passed away in Kolkata, unsung. Bipin Chandra Pal deserves more recognition, not just for his role in the freedom struggle, but also calling out the futility of supporting Khilafat movement, and dangers of Pan Islamism, when most Congress leaders were tight lipped about it.