Essay on Subhash Chandra Bose

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was a man strong, courageous and fiercely principled. In the struggle for India’s freedom, if Mahatma Gandhi stood at one end of the spectrum who advocated peace and non-violence to attain independence, Bose stood along with his Indian National Army at the other end who believed that freedom is not meant to be begged for, it is won.

At great peril to his own life and safety, this man played a prominent part in the Indian revolutionary movement and mobilized an army which shook the shackles of the British government and forced them to re-consider the Indian government’s plea to allow them complete autonomy in the India sub-continent.

Born in January 23, 1897 in Cuttack, Orissa to a wealthy Bengali lawyer, Bose had an illustrious educational career in Presidency College, Calcutta where he was expelled on account of his political activism and later on in Scottish Church College, from where he graduated. He was one of the rare Indians who passed the reputed Indian Civil Service Exam, held in England but soon resigned his candidature in response to the need of the hour to jump headlong into Indian politics and not be a bystander.

Bose started his active career in Indian National Congress in the company of Chittranjan Das, where he soon became a youth educator, journalist and commandant of the Bengal Congress volunteers. Soon after he was deported to Burma, Myanmar for his suspicious involvement in revolutionary undertakings. In 1927, he was reinstated as the President of the Bengal Congress on his return and Bose became the face of the more militant, left-owing faction of the party, Vis-a Vis Gandhi and his protégé Jawaharlal Nehru.

By 1930, Bose had been in and out of imprisonment several times and on account of his ill-health, he had to take a forced exile to Europe, where he wrote the book ‘The Indian Struggle 1920-1934’.

Back in India, he became vociferously critical of Gandhi’s appeasement methodology and advocated for a more confrontational approach to tackle the British. In 1938 and 1939 he vindicated himself by winning the prestigious set against Gandhi led opponent , but the lack of support from Gandhi and his followers led him to resign and form the ‘Forward Bloc’ The British government put him in house arrest. He made his escape in disguise and reached Germany via Kabul and tried to convince the united alliance of Japan and Germany to put up a combined front against the British Empire. Azad Hind Fauj or Indian National Army thus came into being on the Singaporean soil in 1943, comprising of former Indian prisoners of war. The front reached the Indian soil by 1944 but the utter loss of Japan and Germany in World War II cast its pall on Netaji’s plans. He was declared dead in Aug 18, 1945 in a suspicious air crash though his death till date, remains the greatest Indian political controversy.

He was one of the most charismatic, ingenuous and dynamic leader that India had ever seen and 23^rd January is declared as a National Holiday in the country as a tribute to the contribution of this man.

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