A NATION IN MAKING : MEMORIES OF ” SURRENDER NOT ” BANERJEE

AFTER BEING DECLARED AS HERITAGE HOUSE BY GOVT. THE PATERNAL HOUSE OF SURENDRA NATH BANERJEE IN BARRACKPORE, WEST BENGAL IS STILL FACING SOME TROUBLES IN RENOVATION WORKS.

RASHTRA GURU , SURENDRA NATH BELONGED TO THE MODERATE GROUP OF CONGRESS LEADERS WHO HAD FIRM FAITH IN BRITISH SENSE OF JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS. STILL THIS GREAT ORATOR’S ELOQUENCE HAD MESMERIZED BOTH BRITISH AND INDIANS ALIKE. HE PLAYED A GREAT ROLE IN PREVENTING PARTITION OF BENGAL IN 1905. HE TOLD– I SHALL UNSETTLE THE SETTLED FACT. HE EARNED THE TITLE , SURRENDER NOT FROM BRITISH. THE RESIDENT OF BARRACKPORE ACTUALLY BELONGED TO HIS FATHER WHO WAS A DOCTOR. SURENDRA NATH LOVED BARRACKPORE SO MUCH THAT HE USED TO COME TO BARRACKPORE DAILY VIA LAST TRAIN FROM KOLKATA AND SPENT THE NIGHT HERE. MAHATMA GANDHI HAD COMPARED THIS HOUSE TO TAPAVAN AND SURENDRA NATH WITH A SAGE. SURENDRA NATH HAD WRITTEN A MAJORE PORTION OF HIS BOOK ” A NATION IN MAKING” HERE. HE DIED IN THIS HOUSE AND CREMATION TOOK PLACE BESIDE GANGES.

THIS HOUSE WAS IN OBLIVION FOR A LONG TIME. THEN AN EFFORT BY SOME LOCAL PEOPLE LED BY PROF. KANAIPADA ROY HAD MADE IT COME INTO LIGHT ONCE AGAIN. NOW AFTER BEING DECLARED AS A HERITAGE HOUSE GOVT HAS SANCTIONED LAKHS OF MONEY FOR ITS RENOVATION WORK WHICH HAS JUST STARTED. NOW A POWER STATION BUILT INFRONT OF ITS OLD ENTRANCE IS CRTEATING SOME DIFFICULTIES TO RETURN THE HOUSE INTO ITS PERFECT FORMER STATES.photo kRQzK 40442

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