Subhash Chandra Bose
The Name of Subhash Chandra Bose is not anonymous to any Indian because of his ardent stance against the British Raj and his hate for colonial imperialism. Subhash was born on 23rd January 1897 in Cuttak, Orissa. His father was Janakinath Bose and mother was Prabhavati Devi. Subhash got his education from Ravenshaw Collegiate School, Cuttack, Scottish Church College, Calcutta and Fitzwilliam College at Cambridge University. After coming back to India, accepting the challenge of his father he cleared the Indian Civil Services examinations in the year 1920, but lateron in the year 1921 he resigned from the service.
Then he went on to join the Indian National Congress but the clash of the ideology of Subhash and Mahatma Gandhi sent Subhash to Calcutta to work under the famous freedom fighter Chittaranjan Das, In the year 1921 Subhash organized a successful boycott of the celebrations for the visit of the Prince of Wales to India for which he was imprisoned. In the year 1924 he became the Chief Executive Officer in the newly constituted Calcutta Corporation. He used to take half of the allocated salary to him and that too he used for the charitable purposes. In the same year he was arrested on the charges of terrorism and first sent the Alipore Jail then he was shifted to the Mandalay jail in Burma. He was elected as the mayor of Calcutta. British Raj was after him and imprisoned him regularly within a short span of 20 years. Later on he was exiled to Europe in the 1930; even at the time of the death of his father he was only allowed to perform the last rites and packed off to Europe. Bose took the opportunity as a boon to himself and interacted with many great leaders of the west. He came to a firm conclusion from the meetings that to win the political freedom from the British, India requires political, diplomatic and military support from out side world.
Meanwhile in the year 1937 he married an Austrian national Emilie Schenki. In the year 1938 Bose came back to India and became the president of the Indian National Congress in the Haripura session, he was again elected president for the second term in the year 1939 in the Tripura session. Later due to the continued opposition from Mahatma Gandhi Subhash quit the Congress and formed his own party in the name of Forward Block.
When the Second World War broke out Bose protested and promptly got arrested by the British. Bose resorted to hunger strike which compelled the British to transfer for a house arrest. Bose thought that the time was right to exert pressure for the independence of India. With the assistance of his nephew bose escaped from the country and landed in Germany via Afghanistan and Russia. In Germany he established Azad Hind Radio, free India center and Indian Legion. In the year 1943 he decided to go to Japan. He came to japan and took the command of the Indian National Army. He freed some parts of the Indian subcontinent from the British although for a short duration. After the retreat he was going to Japan when his plane crashed and he want missing never to be found again.
