Indian festival - Netaji jayanti

Subhas Chandra Bose,

There are many forgotten army, groups, heroes and statements…. But today, everyone remembers “Give Me Blood And I Will Give You Freedom”

“Freedom is not given - it is taken”

“It is only on the basis of undiluted Nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of Liberation can be built up”

“The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are“

“No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions“

“One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives”

“When we stand, the Azad Hind Fauz has to be like a wall of granite; when we march, the Azad Hind Fauz has to be like a steamroller”

“It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength”

                             

                            ……. Who said these?

A person born on 23rd of January 1897 at Cuttack, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Odisha, India), to Mother Prabhavati Dutt and Father, Janakinath Bose; named as Subhas Chandra Bose, who married Emilie Schenkl and got daughter by name Anita Bose Pfaff, who     finished B.A., Philosophy, in 1919 from The University of Calcutta and B.A. Mental and Moral Sciences Tripos, in 1921 from The University of Cambridge, we Indians celebrate, we Indians celebrate 23^rd of January as Indian festivals - Netaji jayanti. You want to know why?

Netaji (Respected Leader), first applied in early 1942 to Subhas Chandra Bose in Germany by the Indian soldiers of the Indische Legion and then by the German and then by Indian officials in the Special Bureau for India in Berlin, was later used throughout India. Subhas Chandra Bose had been at Indian National Congress and he was ousted from Congress leadership positions in 1939 following differences with Mahatma Gandhi and the Congress high command. In 1920 he passed the civil service examination, but in April 1921, after hearing of the nationalist turmoils in India, he resigned his candidacy and hurried back to India.

Subhas Chandra Bose chosen the way to fight with British to free INDIA by fighting with ARMED way showing strength and courage and temperament. Subhas Chandra Bose become more wanted person to British as most dynamic, influencing leader, respected / regarded by almost all sections / community in India.

He wrote “The Indian Struggle”, 1920–1934 and pleaded India’s cause with European leaders. He returned from Europe in 1936, was again taken into custody, and was released after year. In 1938 he was elected president of the Indian National Congress and formed a national planning committee, which formulated a policy of broad industrialization. Later, he was subsequently placed under house arrest by the British before escaping from India in 1940. Subhas Chandra Bose went to Germany in April 1941.

In Nazi Germany Subhas Chandra Bose came under the tutelage of a newly created Special Bureau for India, guided by Adam von Trott zu Solz. He and other Indians who had gathered in Berlin made regular broadcasts from the German-sponsored Azad Hind Radio beginning in January 1942, speaking in English, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, and Pashto. A little more than a year after the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia, Bose left Germany, travelled to Japan and formed a trained army of about 40,000 troops in Japanese-occupied Southeast Asia, proclaimed the establishment of a provisional independent Indian government, and his so-called Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj) reaching Indian soil on March 18, 1944….. But in a stubborn battle, the mixed Indian and Japanese forces, lacking Japanese air support, were defeated and forced to retreat; the Indian National Army nevertheless for some time succeeded in maintaining its identity as a liberation army, based in Burma and then Indochina. With the defeat of Japan, however, Bose’s fortunes ended. A few days after Japan’s announced surrender in August 1945, Bose, fleeing Southeast Asia, reportedly died in a Japanese hospital in Taiwan as a result of burn injuries from a plane crash.

There are something which is under doubt, wish to read: http://unmistaken1.com/the-secret-life-of-subhash-chandra-bose-after-death/

Netaji was highly influenced by Bhagavad-Gita.  Even today if we remember him, may be because of his speeches, which are even holds good for today generation. I love the statement “DO OR DIE, but NEVER GIVE UP”.

Word Netaji, is not only known in India but it is very famous in Japan till date.

The name of Kolkata Airport is Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.

Island of Andamn & Nicobar has been rename as from Ross Island to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Island, Havelock Island will be known as Swaraj Dweep and Neil Island will be called Shaheed Dweep.

The Subhas Chandra Bose statue located in Shyambazar five point crossing is one of the most important statues and landmarks in Kolkata. There are many statues of him not only in India, not only in the world …… but in every heart of ours……….

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