1946 Naval Uprising: How honouring Netaji Bose marks a paradigm shift in India’s Independence narrative
The moment the hologram image of Subhas Chandra Bose lit up at the most important boulevard and location of modern India, tears were flowing in the eyes of millions of Indians. Decades later while working in the movie business in Hollywood, California, I took a deep plunge into the lives of three Indians, my father reverently spoke about, Har Dayal, Subhas Chandra Bose, and Vallabhbhai Patel. Bose’s foremost adversary General Claude Auchinleck, C-in-C of the British Indian Army called him a ‘genuine patriot’ and wrote in 1946, “Subhas Chandra Bose acquired a tremendous influence over them and that his personality must have been an exceedingly strong one.” At that moment, Subhas Chandra Bose with his nonsectarian approach, belief in gender equality, and economic equity became the most important leader of the multilayered Indian freedom movement and the most popular man of his era with all the other famous leaders acknowledging as much. At this stage we must have in our thoughts the lives of these three world-class Indians Har Dayal, Subhas Chandra Bose, and Vallabhbhai Patel who made us who we are. The writer is the author ‘Subhas Chandra Bose: The Man India Missed the Most’, ‘Har Dayal: The Great Indian Genius’ and ‘India on the World Stage’.
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