Given how your average sepoy at the time despised the INA soldier as a ‘Jiff’ and would happily dispatch him at the first opportunity should he surrender, I find the current lionization of him in India weird.

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I think an appropriate parallel would be how, in the 1930s, many on the Left were “fellow travelers”. They weren’t themselves Stalinists, they might have been quite progressive and liberally minded, but they were willing to make excuses for Stalin as “better than the alternative”.

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This will be another case study for how policy driven entirely by focus groups falls apart in reality as everyone just bypasses or ignores the restrictions they demanded in the focus group

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