Bose & the Nazis
12 years, 9 months ago

Bose & the Nazis

The Hindu  

Subhas Chandra Bose's visit to Germany and the dilemmas posed by his alliance with the Nazis came at a crucial period and cannot be ignored. Studies on Subhas Chandra Bose's flirtation with the Axis powers, first Hitler's Germany and Mussolini's Italy and next Tojo's Japan, vary a lot in their approach from the denunciatory to the apologetic and hagiographic, so typical of Indian nationalistic writings. Were it not for Gandhi's shabby treatment of Bose forcing an elected Congress president to vacate his office and then treating him with scorn Bose would not have left India in December 1940. Bose also argued adamantly in The Indian Struggle that India's salvation could not be achieved through Gandhi's leadership, while nevertheless acknowledging his immense contribution to Indian nationalism. The government's revelation on November 10, 1941, of his presence in Europe shook Bose very much as his first broadcast to India on February 28, 1941, stirred many in India.

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Sarat Chandra Bose: Elder brother of Subhash Chandra Bose who dreamed of United Bengal
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Sarat Chandra Bose: Elder brother of Subhash Chandra Bose who dreamed of United Bengal

India Today  

On September 6, 1889, the village of Kodalia in the 24 Parganas district of West Bengal cradled a future luminary, Sarat Chandra Bose. Janakinath Bose, Bivabati Devi, Subhas Chandra Bose and Sarat Chandra Bose in Shillong, 1927 Though often eclipsed by his brother's luminous legacy, Sarat Bose's heroism shines through. Revered as a devoted family man, a fearless freedom fighter, …

How Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose revered Mahatma Gandhi, despite differences
1 year, 2 months ago

How Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose revered Mahatma Gandhi, despite differences

India Today  

“It will always be my aim and object to try and win his confidence, for the simple reason that it will be a tragic thing for me if I succeed in winning the confidence of other people but fail to win the confidence of India’s greatest man,” Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose said about Mahatma Gandhi. To sum up, the Governor …

'Tribe of distorians': Congress slams NSA Doval on his 'Subhas Chandra Bose would've prevented partition' claim
1 year, 9 months ago

'Tribe of distorians': Congress slams NSA Doval on his 'Subhas Chandra Bose would've prevented partition' claim

Firstpost  

‘India would not have been partitioned if Subhas Bose was there. Jinnah said I can accept only one leader and that is Subhas Bose,’ Doval said The Congress has hit out at the National Security Adviser Ajit Doval over his claim that the partition of India in 1947 would not have happened had Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose been alive. Senior …

India wouldn't have been partitioned if Netaji was there: NSA Ajit Doval
1 year, 9 months ago

India wouldn't have been partitioned if Netaji was there: NSA Ajit Doval

India Today  

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, addressing an event in Delhi on Saturday, said that India would not have been partitioned had Subhas Chandra Bose been alive. Doval, while speaking at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Memorial Lecture, hailed the freedom fighter for showing "audacity" at various stages of his life. He said Subhas Chandra Bose had the audacity to challenge …

Subhas Chandra Bose Birth Anniversary 2023: Remembering Netaji’s Contribution to India’s Freedom Struggle
2 years, 2 months ago

Subhas Chandra Bose Birth Anniversary 2023: Remembering Netaji’s Contribution to India’s Freedom Struggle

News 18  

SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE JAYANTI 2023: Any talk about India’s fight for freedom cannot be complete without one of the most prominent and important figures of the time, Subhash Chandra Bose. As A Freedom Fighter Bose believed it would take military strength to create a free nation and did not agree with Mahatma Gandhi’s less confrontational approach toward independence. As An …

Why Subhas Chandra Bose Called Gandhi ‘Father of Our Nation’ - News18
2 years, 8 months ago

Why Subhas Chandra Bose Called Gandhi ‘Father of Our Nation’ - News18

News 18  

It was on July 6, 1944, that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose addressed Mahatma Gandhi as “Father of our nation” in his radio broadcast. Still a political greenhorn, Bose opposed the undisputed leader’s resolution seeking dominion status for India and argued in favour of having complete independence as the goal of the Congress. When the leaders of the major political parties …

Past Forward: Tagore Called Subhas Bose ‘Deshnayak’ but Both Frequently Argued over Nationalism
2 years, 10 months ago

Past Forward: Tagore Called Subhas Bose ‘Deshnayak’ but Both Frequently Argued over Nationalism

News 18  

Our past can inform our choices in the future. Born four years after India’s First War of Independence in 1857, Rabindranath Tagore passed away just six years before India became free. Immediately after Das’s death in June 1925, Bose wrote to his elder brother Sarat from the Mandalay prison that while on one hand Narayan played a key role in …

Interview | Why Netaji Bose remains an inconvenient nationalist despite being immensely popular
3 years, 1 month ago

Interview | Why Netaji Bose remains an inconvenient nationalist despite being immensely popular

Firstpost  

Author Chandrachur Ghose, while explaining the riddle of Subhas Chandra Bose being an inconvenient nationalist, also talks about his ties with Gandhi and Nehru, and why his Hitler connection was borne out of his love for India Chandrachur Ghose, with Anuj Dhar, has devoted his entire life to Mission Netaji — an endeavour that works towards decoding the mystery surrounding …

Inconvenient Nationalist, Not Nazi Lover: Looking at Subhas Bose without Colonial Glasses
3 years, 1 month ago

Inconvenient Nationalist, Not Nazi Lover: Looking at Subhas Bose without Colonial Glasses

News 18  

While exploring the title of my upcoming biography of Subhas Chandra Bose, the phrase that came instantly to my mind was ‘an inconvenient nationalist’. Bruce Gilley, a professor of political science at the Portland State University, labelled Bose as a ‘Nazi lover’ and posted photos of a group of anticolonial leaders visiting a Nazi labour camp, falsely marking Bose as …

The misunderstood Netaji: Subhas Chandra Bose hated Nazis, but he loved India’s Independence more
3 years, 1 month ago

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

Firstpost  

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 …

Western narrative on Subhas Chandra Bose suffers from poor scholarship, revisionist history and rank hypocrisy
3 years, 2 months ago

Western narrative on Subhas Chandra Bose suffers from poor scholarship, revisionist history and rank hypocrisy

Firstpost  

The vilification of Bose by the Western elite, reeks of confirmation bias and politicisation of history. Another one regards Bose’s move to seek alliance with Hitler “ morally offensive ” and is of the opinion that “India has always had a rather ambivalent attitude to Subhas Chandra Bose.” India has always had a rather ambivalent attitude to Subhas Chandra Bose, …

Off-centre | The epic voyage that brought Subhas Chandra Bose onto centrestage of history
3 years, 2 months ago

Off-centre | The epic voyage that brought Subhas Chandra Bose onto centrestage of history

Firstpost  

As we celebrate our 73rd Republic Day, we would do well to remember that before we became a republic or even achieved Independence, great freedom fighters and revolutionaries had already announced India’s independence. *** *** Headed by two German officers, Oskar Niedermayer and Werner Otto von Hentig, the mission included an exiled Indian price, Raja Mahendra Pratap, as the representative …

British journalist tries to discredit Netaji's legacy as a 'Nazi sympathiser': Here is the truth
3 years, 2 months ago

British journalist tries to discredit Netaji's legacy as a 'Nazi sympathiser': Here is the truth

Op India  

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that a grand statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose will be installed at India Gate on the occasion of his 125th birth anniversary, British author and journalist Tunku Varadarajan tried to tarnish the image of India’s iconic freedom fighter. In a tweet on Saturday, he claimed, “The statue of a man who …

Congress Minister Passed on British Intel Reports on Subhas Chandra Bose to Gandhi
3 years, 2 months ago

Congress Minister Passed on British Intel Reports on Subhas Chandra Bose to Gandhi

News 18  

One of the less discussed aspects about Subhas Chandra Bose has been his penchant for covert operations. A flutter was created in the official circles by two articles published in the Bombay Sentinel in July 1938, titled ‘Clear Up Nazi Cob-Web In India’ and ‘Challenge To Come Out In The Open’, accusing Dr Oswald Urchs, a member of the National …

Right Word | Netaji, Savarkar and the making of INA: A glorious chapter of India’s independence movement
3 years, 2 months ago

Right Word | Netaji, Savarkar and the making of INA: A glorious chapter of India’s independence movement

Firstpost  

As India celebrates 75 years of its Independence, it is time to have a relook at some of the forgotten chapters of our recent history and one of them is the relationship between Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar — the two stalwarts of India’s independence movement. Savarkar’s personal secretary Balarao Savarkar revealed what had happened in that …

Netaji Bose was suspected of being poisoned after removal as Cong Pres
4 years, 2 months ago

Netaji Bose was suspected of being poisoned after removal as Cong Pres

Op India  

Former journalist, Anuj Dhar, who is also the author of the book ‘Conundrum: Subhas Bose’s Life after Death’, stirred up a controversy on social media on Saturday. In a tweet, he wrote, “This day in 1939, Subhas Chandra Bose was elected president of Congress. According to a declassified CIA record, Bose was later ousted from Congress presidency by certain “British …

In Bengal, the political battle over Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
4 years, 2 months ago

In Bengal, the political battle over Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

Hindustan Times  

There are many, especially in Bengal, who believe that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose not only did not die in an air crash in 1945, but survived long after India became independent. Netaji’s secular spirit found true expression in INA and the Azad Hind government With the party founded by Netaji, the Forward Bloc, having faded into obscurity, the Bharatiya Janata …

When Netaji Subhas Fought A Case In The Bombay HC
4 years, 6 months ago

When Netaji Subhas Fought A Case In The Bombay HC

Live Law  

It was November 10, 1933. So he executed his will, ironically on Gandhi Jayanti, bequeathing three-fourths of his money to one "Mr Subhas Chandra Bose of 1 Woodburn Park, Calcutta" so that it could be used "political uplift of India and preferably for publicity work on behalf of India's causes in other countries." It was contended that "political uplift of …

Former MP and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose' kin Krishna Bose passes away
5 years, 1 month ago

Former MP and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose' kin Krishna Bose passes away

India TV News  

Three-time Lok Sabha member and noted educationist Krishna Bose, wife of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's nephew Sisir Bose, died at a private hospital here following a cardiac arrest on Saturday, family sources said. Bose became a member of the Lok Sabha in 1996 after she won from Jadavpur on a Congress ticket. She a Member of Parliament elected from the …

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s struggle within Congress
5 years, 2 months ago

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s struggle within Congress

Op India  

The way history of India has been written post-independence, it is rare to find a post-independence historian to write anything praiseworthy about any freedom-fighter who is not from the clan which appropriated India as its fiefdom. Read- Netaji Bose wasn’t a ‘Nazi Collaborator’, dear Americans, and accusing Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of being anti-semitic over it is absurd Right after Nehru’s …

From inaugurating museum to declassifying 'Netaji Files', BJP has often appropriated Bose's legacy to make inroads in Bengal
5 years, 2 months ago

From inaugurating museum to declassifying 'Netaji Files', BJP has often appropriated Bose's legacy to make inroads in Bengal

Firstpost  

Ever since coming to power in 2014, time and again the Narendra Modi-led NDA government has been accused of making a “conspiratorial attempt” to appropriate the legacy of Subhas Chandra Bose and other prominent icons of India’s struggle for Independence like Sardar Patel and BR Ambedkar. The Modi govt’s remarks drew sharp criticism from the Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi, who …

To take on the CAA, Congress to highlight Netaji’s achievements
5 years, 2 months ago

To take on the CAA, Congress to highlight Netaji’s achievements

Hindustan Times  

In its effort to combat the Citizenship Amendment Act, the Congress is looking at highlighting the achievements of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, a former president who the party has been accused of abandoning in the past. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had led a section of the Indian National Congress in the 1920s-1930s, and was the party president in 1938 and …

Gandhi and Bose: Freedom fighters at odds with each other
5 years, 6 months ago

Gandhi and Bose: Freedom fighters at odds with each other

India TV News  

It is the eternal riddle, one that for most remains in the realm of unsolved mysteries. At Tripuri in March 1939, G B Pant moved a resolution asking Bose to appoint a Working Committee in line with Gandhi's ideas. The Congress closed ranks against Bose and the best description of what transpired at the fabled session came from Bose's brother …

Netaji Bose wasn't a 'Nazi Collaborator', accusing Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of being anti-semitic is absurd
5 years, 8 months ago

Netaji Bose wasn't a 'Nazi Collaborator', accusing Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of being anti-semitic is absurd

Op India  

The Indian populace often tends to believe that Indian politics and politicians are the worst. The latest frivolous issue that has captured the attention of the American political fraternity is a t-shirt worn by Saikat Chakrabarti, Chief of Staff of firebrand leftist Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. In case it’s not clear, AOC’s chief of staff is wearing a T-shirt with …

Subhas Chandra Bose's kin named BJP candidate: Move underlines party's tactical plan to appropriate aggressive nationalism
6 years ago

Subhas Chandra Bose's kin named BJP candidate: Move underlines party's tactical plan to appropriate aggressive nationalism

Firstpost  

Subhas Chandra Bose’s grand-nephew, Chandra Kumar Bose, was named the BJP candidate to fight the South Kolkata seat, a seat of immense pride and prestige in West Bengal. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Lal Bahadur Shastri and now Subhas Chandra Bose form part of the plan In an apt demonstration of its political posturing and strategy, on 21 October, 2018, Prime Minister …

Bose in Singapore
7 years, 4 months ago

Bose in Singapore

The Hindu  

FOR Subhas Chandra Bose, violent armed struggle was an option unlike the non-violent creed of the Mahatma Gandhi-led Congress in attaining independence from the British. Bose’s arrival in Singapore gave a fillip to the Indian freedom movement in South-East Asia. We call upon them to launch the final struggle against the British and their allies in India and to prosecute …

The why of myths on Subhas Chandra Bose: Poor scholarship, bias and politicisation of history
8 years, 2 months ago

The why of myths on Subhas Chandra Bose: Poor scholarship, bias and politicisation of history

Firstpost  

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on 6 February, 2016. We have not busted all the myths concerning Subhas Bose, but only a subset of them, in particular those that have appeared in Firstpost, The abuse of Indian history: Obsession over Subhas Chandra Bose indicates that India suffers from a paucity of heroes by Rajeev Srinivasan, which has sought …

BJP can't own Patel, and Congress can't disown him
8 years, 5 months ago

BJP can't own Patel, and Congress can't disown him

Deccan Chronicle  

There is an unmistakable false note in the BJP’s bid to appropriate Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel for its own. There were nearly three years when Patel and Nehru were face to face with each other, and their sharp differences didn’t disappear. Patel didn’t endure Nehru due to any sentimental deference to Gandhi’s memory and wishes. It was Nehru and Patel who …

BJP’s search for a blameless freedom icon
9 years, 2 months ago

BJP’s search for a blameless freedom icon

Live Mint  

Can we reverse history? Many blamed Nehru and Gandhi, saying their opposition to Bose’s leadership of the Congress during the freedom struggle forced him to take the path of armed struggle. Bose was sharply critical of the Hindu Mahasabha’s “communalism”—a word used by the Congress today to refer to the BJP. “People like myself are prepared to concede to the …

Nehru rejected suggestion that Bose be dealt with as war criminal
9 years, 2 months ago

Nehru rejected suggestion that Bose be dealt with as war criminal

Hindustan Times  

Days after the surrender of Japan in World War II and the plane crash that purportedly killed Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Jawaharlal Nehru rejected a suggestion that the iconic freedom fighter should be treated as a war criminal. Days after the surrender of Japan in World War II and the plane crash that purportedly killed Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Jawaharlal …

The Other Side of Subhas Chandra Bose
9 years, 2 months ago

The Other Side of Subhas Chandra Bose

The Quint  

Nehru’s second consecutive term was coming to end in 1937 and a suitable successor had to be found. Though the rightist lobby led by Sardar Patel opposed him tooth and nail, the Mahatma declared that “there really was no one other than Subhas who deserved to become the ‘rashtrapati’. The first term of Bose was a smooth affair with many …

State of the Union: The Bose enigma
9 years, 11 months ago

State of the Union: The Bose enigma

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Nehru government spied on Netaji Bose’s family for 20 years has been the refrain the past week. This hypothesis rests on the presumption that the Nehru government and its successors were not convinced about Bose’s death, and therefore feared his return to India. On the night of January 16-17, 1941, Bose escaped from his home in Calcutta …

Documents reveal Nehru govt shared information on Netaji's family with MI5
9 years, 11 months ago

Documents reveal Nehru govt shared information on Netaji's family with MI5

Hindustan Times  

Two recently declassified files from the West Bengal government’s intelligence branch, which were sent to the Intelligence Bureau, showed that several members of Bose's family were kept under surveillance between 1948 and 1968. The documents on the sharing of information between the IB and MI5 – which were found in Britain’s National Archives by Anuj Dhar, the author of "India’s …

Two heroes
10 years, 3 months ago

Two heroes

The Hindu  

A BIG hand, ladies and gentlemen, for just about the best book ever related to our freedom movement : eminent historian and Ashoka University Vice-Chancellor Rudrangshu Mukherjee’s Nehru & Bose: Parallel Lives, a beautifully wrought masterpiece that classes him as the A.J.P. Mukherjee recounts Gandhi likening Bose’s organisation of the 1928 Congress session “to a Bertram Mills’ circus”, with the …

Nehru and Bose: Tension-fraught and passing friendship
10 years, 3 months ago

Nehru and Bose: Tension-fraught and passing friendship

India TV News  

New Delhi: Subhash Chandra Bose, a revolutionary; Jawaharlal Nehru, the quintessential democrat. This was the limiting point of their relationship: one man who was certain that nothing mattered to him more than the freedom of India; and another individual who also cherished his country's freedom but tried valiantly to link it to his other and often conflicting loyalties,” Mukherjee, currently …

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