The misunderstood Netaji: Subhas Chandra Bose hated Nazis, but he loved India’s Independence more

A few weeks ago, when I learned to my utter delight that the demand for a statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in the heart of the national capital had been approved, I knew what the repercussions were going to be like. Yasser Arafat, Colonel Gaddafi, Fidel Castro support our struggle to the hilt.” Back in the 1940s, Subhas Bose was engaged in a life and death struggle over what constituted India’s core national interest: Evicting the foreign occupiers from our soil. When he couldn’t dodge it any longer, Cameron blurted out: “We receive from them important intelligence and security information that keeps us safe… For me, Britain’s national security and our people’s security comes first.” It is for the reason of larger national interests that the United States is still a friend of Pakistan, which harboured that country’s enemy No. “Men who weighed this question at the German Foreign Office were men of career, who were neither National Socialists nor did they belong to the inner coteries of Hitler… These men, guided by the desire to advance German national interests in India, thought it advisable for political reasons to support the movement On a personal level, Bose was as humane as any other Cambridge alumni like him. India must gain her independence, cost what it may.” The standard Western and elitist Indian take on Bose’s outreach to Nazi Germany doesn’t take the idea of “national interest first” into consideration.