Subhas Chandra Bose Jayanti 2023: All You Need to Know

A name that appears with a whole lot of Indian nationalist sentiments a lsquosoldierrsquo who was committed to bring freedom for India that was reeling under British regime Subhas Chandra Bose ndash popularly known as Netaji is one of the most discussed and scrutinized personalities connected to Indiarsquos freedom struggleBose was born on 23 January 1897 On this January 23 it will be Subhas Chandra Bosersquos 126th birth anniversary ndash also known as Subhas Chandra Bose Jayanti His birth anniversary is marked as lsquoParakram Diwasrsquo ndash exactly translated as lsquoCourage dayrsquoBorn into a privileged Bengali family in Orissa Bose was an early recipient of Anglocentric education Bose became a part of the freedom movement led by Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress He was on good terms with Jawaharlal Nehru also braced the socialist ideasIn 1938 Bose became the Congress president 1938 However after the reelection in 1939 there were evident differences seen between him and other Congress leaders This was for two reasons Different stands on ldquofuture federation of British India and princely statesrdquo the discomfort that grew ldquoamong the Congress leadership over Boses negotiable attitude to nonviolencerdquo Bose eventually resigned from the position and was ousted from the Congress partyIn 1941 as Bose arrived in Hitlerled Germany where the leadership ldquooffered unexpected but equivocal sympathy for Indias independencerdquo He also met Adolf Hitler in May in 1942 who offered to arrange a submarine for him During his stay in Germany German authorityrsquos funds were used to open a Free India Centre in BerlinAlso read RSS ideology and Netajis ideals poles apart dont coincide Anita BoseLater on Bose reached Japan and revamped the Indian National Army that included prisoners of war of the Indian Army who were captured by the Japanese forces during the battle of Singapore Bose presided over the Provisional Government of Free India that was declared on the Japaneseoccupied Andaman and Nicobar IslandsThe Indian Army reversed the Japanese attack on India during the late 1944 and early 1945 Nearly half the Japanese forces and the INA forces were killed and the remaining INA forces were ldquo driven down the Malay Peninsula and surrendered with the recapture of Singaporerdquo Amid this perplexing situation Bose chose to escape to Manchuri looking at a future in the Soviet Union Bose allegedly died when the plane he boarded crashed in Japanese Taiwan on August 18 1945 However there are different versions of Bosersquos death that sparked controversy from time to timeIndia celebrates Subhas Chandra Bose as a hero lsquoParakram Diwasrsquo is dedicated to Bosersquos what many define as his lsquocouragersquo This day gets a major space in educational institutions and other sociopolitical organizations that celebrate Bose for his ldquocouragerdquo and ldquoheroicrdquo instancesHowever there are certain criticisms that have always surrounded Bosersquos stances as many question his visit to Germany ndash denoting the label of ldquoFascismrdquo and ldquoNazismrdquo connected to the country