Legendary Son Of India: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

“Tum Mujhee Khoon Doo, Main Tumhain Aazadii Doongaa”

Those are not mere words; they had the power to inspire an entire nation!

One man defied the might of an empire and urged a country to join hands to liberate itself from the chains of Imperialism with the slogan “Give me your blood and I will give you freedom”. This real life legend was none other than Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. In India, he became a legend for his unwavering patriotism. We pay him our most heartfelt respects every year on his birthday, January 23rd.

Netaji: Leadership Of Subhash Chandra Bose

Word “Netaji” signifies an esteemed leader, and is a title given to Subhas Chandra Bose. The name of Netaji Bose is inscribed in glittering letters throughout the great history of India’s independence struggle. Every Indian’s heart and thoughts are etched with his name. The nation remembers “Netaji” as a valiant soldier who dedicated his entire life to his motherland in order for his fellow brothers and sisters to inhale the air of independence, freedom, and honour.

Netaji possessed exceptional organizing and leadership abilities. He collaborated with Mahatma Gandhi and also embraced revolutionary nationalism through armed confrontation. He was Mahatma Gandhi’s contemporary, and the two had ideological conflicts on various fronts. His slogans like “No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions” or “freedom is not given, it is taken” clearly shows the ideological difference.

Netaji Bose was one of the most prominent Indian revolutionaries who was significant in the country’s independence movement.

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (1897-1945): Points To Ponder

In 1920, he qualified for the Indian Civil Service exam. He resigned his work and returned to India from England after the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre to join the liberation struggle.
Netaji has actively participated in the Non-Cooperation movement led by Mahatma Gandhi.
During the independence struggle, he founded the Swaraj journal.
He was imprisoned in 1925 for his nationalist activities and was elected President of the All India Youth Congress shortly after his release in 1927.
In 1938, he gained the leadership of the Congress in Haripura, Gujarati soil, and organised a national planning committee that outlined a policy of broad industrialization.
He founded the All India Forward Bloc within the Indian National Congress in 1939 to bring together the party’s extreme forces.
In 1939, he quit as Congress leader due to differences with the high command of the party and Mahatma Gandhi. He was held under house imprisonment by the British in 1940, just before escaping from India.
Bose landed in Nazi Germany in April 1941, when the leadership expressed unexpected, if ambiguous, support for India’s freedom. German funding were utilised to establish a Free India Centre in Berlin during November 1941, as well as a Free India Radio, on which Bose broadcast nightly.
In 1943, he established the Provincial Government of Free India in Singapore.
Rash Behari Bose gave him command of the Indian National Army, which later was reorganised and renamed by him as Azad Hind Fauj in 1943.
Subhas Chandra Bose died of third-degree burns after his overloaded Japanese plane crashed in Japanese-ruled Formosa on August 18, 1945, according to scholarly opinion (now Taiwan). However, many of his admirers, particularly in Bengal, refused to believe either the fact or the circumstances of his death at the time, and have refused to believe them since. Within hours of his death, conspiracy theories arose, and they have lasted a long time, perpetuating numerous martial myths about Bose.

Indians express their deepest homage to Netaji as he poured his heart and soul into India’s freedom cause. Subhash Babu’s patriotic zeal has inspired generations of Indians across the country.