23 January 2026 – Celebrating ‘The Day of Valour’ – Remembering India’s greatest freedom fighter – Subhash Chandra Bose

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

“No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions”- Subhash Chandra Bose

Subhash Chandra Bose

1. Subhash Chandra Bose was born to Bengali parents, Janakinath Bose and Prabhabati Bose on 23 January 1897 in Cuttack.
2. He was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist whose defiance of British authority in India made him a hero.
3. The honorific ‘Netaji’ was first applied to Subhash Chandra Bose in Germany in early 1942—by the Indian soldiers of the Indische Legion and by the German and Indian officials in the Special Bureau for India in Berlin. It is now used throughout India.
4. During the mid-1930s he travelled in Europe, visiting Indian students and European politicians, including Benito Mussolini.
5. In this period, he also researched and wrote the first part of his book ‘The Indian Struggle‘, which covered the country’s independence movement in the years 1920–1934.
6. Although it was published in London in 1935, the British government banned the book in the colony out of fears that it would encourage unrest.
7. On the outbreak of war, he advocated a campaign of mass civil disobedience to protest against Viceroy Lord Linlithgow’s decision to declare war on India’s behalf without consulting the Congress leadership.
8. Having failed to persuade Mahatma Gandhi of the necessity of this, he organised mass protests in Calcutta calling for the removal of the “Holwell Monument”, which then stood at the corner of Dalhousie Square in memoriam of those who died in the Black Hole of Calcutta. 
9. He was thrown in jail by the British, but was released following a seven-day hunger strike.
10. His house in Calcutta was kept under surveillance by the CID.
11. His arrest and subsequent release set the scene for his escape to Nazi Germany, via Afghanistan and the Soviet Union.
12. A few days before his escape, he sought solitude and, on this pretext, avoided meeting British guards and grew a beard.
13. Late night 16 January 1941, the night of his escape, he dressed as a Pathan (brown long coat, a black fez-type coat and broad pyjamas) to avoid being identified.
14. He escaped from under British surveillance from his Elgin Road house in Calcutta on the night of 17 January 1941, accompanied by his nephew Sisir Kumar Bose, later reaching Gomoh Railway Station (now Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Gomoh Station) in the then state of Bihar (now Jharkhand), India.
15. In 1923, Netaji became the President of the All India Youth Congress Committee and the Secretary of the Bengal State Congress. He also briefly became the mayor of Calcutta in 1930.

“Freedom is not given, it is taken”- Subhash Chandra Bose

Interesting facts of Subhash Chandra Bose

1. The Indian government announced the Bharat Ratna for him posthumously on January 22, 1992, just before his 95th birth anniversary.
2. His family and supporters opposed the award, as there was no concrete proof of his death, questioning the circumstances.
3. Following public interest litigations, the Supreme Court ruled in 1997 that the press communique announcing the award be canceled, as it couldn’t be conferred.
4. It remains the only instance where a Bharat Ratna was announced but not officially conferred, making it a unique case in the award’s history.
5. January 23rd (his birthday) is celebrated as Parakram Diwas (Day of Courage) in India in the rememberance of a great Freedom Fighter – Subhash Chandra Bose
6. His famous slogan, “Tum mujhe khoon do, main tumhe aazadi dunga,” brought patriotism to Indians during the fight for independence.
7.  It is believed that on 18 August 1945, Subhas Chandra Bose died in a plane crash shortly after take-off.
8. Due to the mystery surrounding the circumstances of his death, the Government of India has set up several committees to investigate the case.
9. “Jai Hind,” one of the most popular slogans of India, was coined by Subhash Chandra Bose.
10. From 1921 to 1941, Subhash was imprisoned eleven times in different jails due to his advocacy for complete independence.

“It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood ”– Subhash Chandra Bose

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