On the 127th anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s birth, let’s celebrate & marvel at Bose!!!
A man goes from Calcutta to Afghanistan to Russia to Germany. Pretty much alone. Makes the famed British ‘intelligence’ look like jokers.
Raises an army in Germany. Travels to Singapore over a 3-month journey, first in a German submarine, transferring somewhere near the southern tip of Africa into a Japanese submarine. Builds up the INA. Takes it to 60,000 strong. Raises funds of many many lakhs.
Takes the Andaman Islands. Raises the Azad Hind Government’s flag there. Sets up the framework of the Azad Hind Government. Sets up a Azad Hind Currency & a Azad Hind Bank. Issues the Azad Hind government’s first sovereign bonds. Issues stamps. Creates a Azad Hind Government’s Worker’s league. Secures official diplomatic recognition of India’s first Independent government from over a dozen countries. Officially declares war on the British.
Moves toward Delhi to uproot the British. Loses 30,000 soldiers in battle. Never surrenders. Goes underground to build another army.
While underground, manoeuvres the messaging using the badly biased and unfair INA trial, to engineer multiple mini-mutinies among the British-Indian armed forces, just at the time when World War II is affecting the British the most. Has a large role to play in crippling the British Empire in India.
As has been observed in many of the writings and official cables of the Empire, the big fear that Bose will be back with a massive, rejuvenated INA was one of the primary reasons for the British to agree to leave India.
BOSE – What a leader!
Without doubt, One of India’s greatest freedom fighters!!!
Here are some less-seen images / pics of & about Netaji…
