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Mahatma and Netaji shared the same deplorable fate. Mahatma's dear ones, to a great extent, displeased him, if not deserted him. They used to meet with him quite infrequently. On one occasion he went to Delhi Station with one of his faithful assistants, Jayaprakash Narayan. No, not even one political leader came to receive him. This was what Mahatma's fate had become.

Mahatma, in the evening of his life, said, 'I have sadly failed. I wanted to have an undivided India, but it is nothing short of impossibility.'

In Netaji's case also, his Heaven-blessed dream was to come to Delhi with his Indian National Army and throw the British Government completely and irrevocably out of India. Alas, Netaji sadly suffered disappointment.

In the outer world we notice two colossal souls with unfulfilled dreams. But when we dive deep within, we faultlessly see that two absolutely supreme patriots were trying to illumine the firmament of India and make it bright, brighter, brightest.