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Exploring the Subhash Chandra Bose saga in Nagaland

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By Mirror Desk Updated: May 28, 2019 11:14 pm
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Konyak students of Pranabananda Women’s College dance during the inaugural segment of a two-day seminar in the college’s premises on may 28, in Dimapur.


Eastern Mirror Desk

Dimapur, May 28: A national seminar that seeks to study Subhash Chandra Bose’s association with the Naga Hills and parts of Northeast India is being hosted by Pranabananda Women’s College at the college’s auditorium, on May 28 in Dimapur.

The programme was organised in collaboration with the Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, an autonomous institution under the ministry of Culture.

It was informed that the idea behind the seminar was to interact with cultural boundaries for a national cause in which Subhash Chandra Bose’s role has been talked about both in the academic circles and in “tea stalls and shopping corners.”

A member of the event’s organising committee said various perspectives in the recent years have stirred up a debate about certain phases of Bose’s mission and work in national interest some of which are unsung.

“When it comes to Northeast India, the issue demands as well as deserves focal attention, since the significance of the roles played in this part of the country gets blurred when a national leader is viewed from a global arena,” said a member of the event.

The deputy commissioner of Dimapur, Kevekha Zehol also spoke at the inaugural programme of the seminar.

In his brief address, Zehol said Bose’s last touch-point before he went abroad was Phek in Nagaland, a district the administrator is from. He urged the gathering to remain students for life time and always be curious to learn new things in life.

“The moment we lose our curiosity to learn new things, we will become redundant and laidback,” Zehol said.

A historian and a former member of the Indian Council of Historical Research, Dr. Purabi Roy, delivered the keynote address to the event. He gave a presentation of Bose’s career as a freedom fighter for India.

The contribution of Naga people in India’s independence is equally significant and this phases of history needs to be recollected with more vigour, Roy said. He stressed it in the context that Bose and the Naga villagers combated the British.

The two-day national seminar will cover topics about understanding the national leader, studying Bose through Northeast India perspectives; war strategies and Naga hills; accounts of his relation with AZ Phizo; Bose’s visit to the Naga Hills; his connection to Chesezu in Phek; cultural studies and his connection with Northeast India, among others.

 

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By Mirror Desk Updated: May 28, 2019 11:14:52 pm
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