UNFORGETTABLE FREEDOM FIGHTER

“Remembering the proud son of India- Subhas Chandra Bose”

• Subhas Chandra Bose was an Indian nationalist whose provocation patriotism made him a hero in India, but whose attempt during World War II to free India of British rule with the help of Nazi Germany and Japan left a troubled legacy.
  Subhash Chandra Bose was one of India’s greatest freedom fighter. He was the founder of the Indian National Army, popularly known as ‘Azad Hind Fauj’. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had visited London during pre-independence period to discuss the future of India, with the members of the Labor party. His sudden disappearance from Taiwan, led to surfacing of various theories, concerning the possibilities of his survival.

• Many of them have known about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. What we have known is he is our freedom fighter. In India we have more number of freedom fighters but very few has placed their name in history. We have one of the most remembered freedom fighter is Mahatma Gandhi, because Indian Government celebrates his birthday as a holiday for every year. Subhash Chandra Bose was one of India’s greatest freedom fighter.Let us now see the challegeful life of bose.

 Life of Bose

• Subhash Chandra Bose was born on 23 January, 1897 in Cuttack (Orissa) to Janakinath Bose and Prabhavati Devi. Janakinath Bose was one of the successful lawyer in Cuttack and received the title of “Rai Bahadur”. He, later became a member of the Bengal Legislative Council.

• Subhash Chandra Bose was a really intelligent and sincere student but he never had interest in sports. He passed his B.A. in Philosophy from the Presidency College in Calcutta. He was strongly influenced by Swami Vivekananda’s teachings and was known for his patriotic zeal as a student. He also adored Vivekananda as his spiritual Guru.

• Subhash Chandra Bose decided to take revenge, after reading so many occurrences about the exploitation of the fellow Indians by the British. In 1916, Subhash allegedly beat and thrashed one of his British teachers E F Otten. The lecturer made a racist remark against the Indian students. As a result, Subhash Chandra Bose was came out from the Presidency school and banished from Calcutta University. The occurrence conveyed Subhash in the register of rebel-Indians. In December 1921, Bose was arrested and jailed for coordinating a boycott of the commemorations to mark the Prince of Wales’s visit to India.

Formation of Azad Hind Fauj by Subhash Chandra Bose

• Subhash Chandra Bose now started a mass movement against utilizing Indian resources and men for the great war. To him, it made no sense to further bleed poor Indians for the sake of colonial and imperial nations.There was a incredible response to his call and the British promptly imprisoned him.

• He took to a hunger-strike, and after his health deteriorated on the 11th day of fasting, he was freed and was placed under house arrest. The British could do anything except locking him in the prison.
•  It was in 1941, that Subhash Chandra Bose suddenly disappeared. The authorities did not come to know for many days that he was not in his Barrack (the house in which he was being guarded). He traveled by foot, car and train and resurfaced in Kabul (now in Afghanistan), only to disappear once again.In November 1941, his broadcast from German radio sent shock waves amongst the British and electrified the Indian masses who realized that their leader was working on a master plan to free their motherland. It also gave fresh confidence to the revolutionaries in India who were challenging the British in many ways.He was in the Atlantic, the Middle East, Madagascar and the Indian ocean. Battles were being fought over land, in the air and there were mines in the sea. At one stage he traveled 400 miles in a rubber dingy to reach a Japanese submarine, which took him to Tokyo. He was warmly received in Japan and was declared the head of the Indian army, which consisted of about 40,000 soldiers from Singapore and other eastern regions. These soldiers were united by another great revolutionary Rash Behari Bose. Rash Behari handed over them to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
•  Netaji Bose called it the Indian National Army (INA) and a government by the name “Azad Hind Government” was declared on the 21st of October 1943. INA freed the Andaman and Nicobar islands from the British and were renamed as Swaraj and Shaheed islands. The Government started functioning.

Disappearance of Subhash Chandra Bose

• Although it was believed that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose died in a plane crash, his body was never recovered. There have so many theories been put forward regarding his abrupt desertion. The government of India set up a number of committees to investigate the case and come out with truth.
• In May 1956, the Shah Nawaz Committee visited Japan to look into the situation of Bose’s assumed death. Citing their lack of political relations with Taiwan, the Centre, did not seek for the assistance from their government. The reports of Justice Mukherjee Commission, tabled in Parliament on 17 May, 2006 said, “Bose did not die in the plane crash and the ashes at Renkoji temple are not his”. However, the findings were rejected by the government of India.
•  This is the history about our great freedom fighter of India Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.! Bose’s patriotic spirit continues to inspire generations of Indians across the length and breadth of our Motherland. Lets salute Subhash Chandra Bose.!! Salute him !! Salute our nation.

Salute him!!!