5 Interesting Facts About Subhash Chandra Bose

Well, As we all know about freedom fighters who fought for the incredible India and in the month of January only, our constitution was formed due to their sacrifices. One of those legends was Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. Here are some of the interesting things you should know about him.

Netaji Subhash Chandra bose was born on 23 january 1897 in Orissa, Bengal division, was among ninth member of a family of 14 members. In january 1902, with his brothers and sisters, he joined Protestant European school. He was admired by his principal due to his extreme brilliance. Years later, he passed B.A from University of Calcutta. Netaji Subhash Chandra bose left India in 1919 making a promise to his father that he will appear in the Indian Civil services examination. He went to Cambridge and matriculated on 19 November, 1919. Although he came fourth in the exam and got selected but he did not wanted to work for the British. He resigned from the civil services in 1921 and returned to India. Two years later, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Bose got selected as the president for all India youth congress under the mentorship of Chittaranjan Das. He also worked as the CEO of Calcutta Municipal Corporation. He got arrested in a roundup of nationalists and sent to prison. After bein released, he worked with Jawarharlal Nehru for independence. He emerged as mayor of Calcutta in 1930. He wrote a book titled the Indian Struggle which was published in 1935. He later on accepted for the Nomination of president of India. He did gave a lot of contributions to the Indian freedom. However, due to unexplained reasons, he died on 18 august, 1945.

* Although Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was opposed to Gandhi ji’s philosophies, he still used to call him’Patriot of Patriots”. This honor was commendable as Bose really did commit fully to the cause of Indian Independence. There was no sacrifice that he didn’t make for his nation. Till this day he is regarded as one of the most patriotic idols to inspire thousands of young men and women. His political views were complete freedom for India whereas other leaders wanted it to happen in phases through a dominion status. He was even considered a patriot even by some of his rivals in the Congress. He wanted freedom for nation and almost he did not cared for whom he had to go to ask for assistance.

* When Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose realized that the British Government would have to be forced hard to leave India, he decided that his enemy’s enemy was his friend and visited Germany and Japan to get their assistance. With the help of Japan he was able to form the Azad Hind Fauj that fought against the Allied forces in South East Asia. Along with the Japanese army they brought independence to Andaman and Nicobar Islands and came to Manipur. But till that time Japan had grown weak and after it’s withdrawal from World War II, the Azad Hind Fauj had to retreat and disband.

* In 1941, with a daring escape from house arrest in India, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose went from Kolkata to Gomo by a car and from there to Peshawar by train. He went to Kabul and from there he traveled to Germany to seek help for India’s independence from Adolf Hitler. He was asked to wait outside Hitler’s office. After waiting for a long time, Hitler came outside the office but didn’t met Netaji. Netaji always went past him but didn’t saw him intentionally. This happened several times. At last, Hitler went to Netaji and put his hands on Netaji’s shoulders. He was so busy in reading newspapers that he didn’t looked up. After few minutes, he looks up to him and says “Hitler”. Hitler asked back “How can you be so sure that i am Hitler?”. At this, he replied” Only Hitler and that too the real one can dare to place hands on my shoulders”. To fool his enemies, Hitler had kept many look alikes of him but couldn’t fool the great Netaji.

* Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was born in year 1897, to Janaki Nath Bose and Prabhabati Bose. Netaji had 13 siblings: Pramilabala mitra, Saralabala Dey and 11 other siblings. He was married to a beautiful Austrian women Emille Shinken. Her daughter name was Anita Bose who became a popular economist in Germany. During his time in Germany, Apparently Netaji was allowed to leave India only after the German surrendered in Stalingard. Netaji boarded a submarine in 1943, leaving behind his wife and only child in Germany.

* Netaji was the editor in chief of the newspaper” Forward”. He was made to be exposed sometimes in writing jobs but later on managed to open his own newspaper called Swaraj. The all India Forward Bloc was founded by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. His elder brother Sarat Chandra Bose and Chitta Basu had been important members of it in independent India. It had its main stronghold in West Bengal. He traveled around the country, rallying support for his new political project. They held their first All India bloc meeting in Nagpur. In August 1942, the British banned the all India Bloc. Inside India, local activists of the Forward Bloc continued the anti-British activities.