HISTORY: your choice
Brown-grey hues coloring the sky a major sign of 20th century industrialization going through Britain, which of course demanded funds, whose amends were fulfilled by other countries which were set up as colonies by them. One of the major colonies was the Indian subcontinent. Once called “the golden bird”, it subsided to nothing but poverty-stricken mass. Yet hope, culture, and prospects of better living and most importantly want for freedom never diminished.
The 20th century was very brutal for women. They saw women as repressed beings, nothing but an angel for home who only existed for pleasing men. They were subsided to nothing but obedient wives and child bearers. They were denied of the basic rights of equality. In India the situation was worse, society was already divided into caste and religion, this only worsened situation for women, they were degraded to nothing but responsibility for the family.
At that time, came Subhas Chandra Bose, belonging to a wealthy Bengali household, who grew up worshiping female deities, practicing courage and ethics. He challenged the society not only once but many times. He went against the Britishers, he went against the social norms. He did what no one in the world assumed or never thought of doing. He raised an open all-female battalion, gave them the respect and position they deserved, never saw them lower than a man never went easy on them but gave them respect wholeheartedly. Females joined, they appreciated, they showed courage. This gave the name of great Indian battalion "Lakshmi Battalion", named after brave "Rani Lakshmi Bai". This great battalion gave names to bravest spies. Females who played active participation for freedom, they sacrificed their life. They acted as dancers, slaves, maids to get all the information for nothing but for their own country with will as hard as steel and target as clear as water, they never stopped, they crossed every threshold of pain, struggle that ever existed .
Society never accepted them. They went against them. They called them names. They said that this was dysfunctional. They always resisted the change. Even Gandhiji whom people adored, said women were meant to be good wives and child bearers. But this never stopped him or the women joining for the greater good and betterment of India. He believed in Vivekananda's philosophy that the country will only grow if male and female both are functioning well, are given the same respect, are given the same courage and responsibility for the country.
The coming story is not about Subhas Chandra Bose or his great works; it is about a girl, an inspiring woman. Just crossed the 18nth birthday, on the threshold of being an adult with a whole new world of fantasy and dreams. but fate took a sharp painful turn, which set her heart ablaze, she joined “Lakshmi battalion” with inspiration and resentment against the Britishers and that very special officer who held her brother at the gunpoint.
She resented him with her very core and sought vengeance. 9
This is pure fantasy, but the inspirations and motivations have been taken from real, true events and circumstances. The struggle was real.
