Subhas Chandra Bose was the lone crusader against the mainstream. His was a relentless anti-colonial struggle that aimed at socialist reconstruction after Independence. The socialism he envisaged was to be rooted in Indian soil. He never wanted to imitate Bolshevik experiments.
August 5, 2021Modi observes Subhash Boses birth anniv; says AtmanirbharBharat can lead to Sonar Bangla.
January 24, 2021The Commemoration is being held as a tribute and as a mark of gratitude to the colossal contribution Netaji made to India’s freedom struggle.
December 21, 2020Despite many contradictions, the relationship between Gandhi and Bose was marked by deep love, affection and respect.
October 10, 2020An ordinary man may weep in despair. A saint and ascetic may well muse ruefully with abject surrender that all is Divine Play. Let us board the Noah's Ark of namosmaranam to tide over this frightful flood of pandemic disaster.
July 15, 2020Bose was admitted to the hospital with irregular heart beat on 16 February and suffered a cerebral attack on17 February and remained in critical condition, hospital sources said.
February 23, 2020Inspired by Netaji, the legal practitioner here has preserved some of the rare photographs related to the life of the great revolutionary freedom fighter.
January 23, 2020Demanding that his birth anniversary be declared a national holiday, Banerjee said Subhas Chandra Bose through his struggle has sent the message of respecting all faiths
January 23, 2020Subhas Chandra Bose sought to provide an authoritarian character to the state but his objective was to combine a people's state with a strong centralized state. He wanted to promote collective affiliation of workers' and peasants' organisations so that the state could act as the servant of the people. Like the Marxists of China and unlike the Soviet Marxists, Subhas sought to trace the roots of Indian socialism to the tradition and culture of India.
September 7, 2019A group of army veterans extended their support to members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s family who have raised objections to the claim that the iconic freedom fighter led his last years in hiding as ‘Gumnami Baba’ in Uttar Pradesh.
March 5, 2019Tagore’s support for Subhas during this critical phase of national politics strengthened his zeal for gaining freedom for the country.
January 24, 2019As the Congress was divided between supporters of Gandhi and Bose, Tagore advocated the latter’s cause with his write up Deshanayak or The Leader of the Country in May 1939: “I am a Bengali poet; on behalf of Bengal I hail you as the leader of the nation”.
January 23, 2019The final answer about Netaji's death must be sought in the domain of divinity. Those dearest to God smart under stinging pain and suffering, burn with searing agony till they become luminous with purity and transcend the shackles of psychosis and eventually merge with the supreme. Sa Yogi Moyee Bartate
December 20, 2018The exercise of changing names of a historical place should always be carried out judiciously not the least because to change the name of a city is to divest it of its past moorings and associations.
November 10, 2018Meghnad Saha was born 125 years ago in an obscure village in East Bengal, now Bangladesh, in a family where his father was an indigent shopkeeper. The country was under British rule, and society was sharply divided by a rigid caste structure, destructive poverty and extreme superstition. Young Meghnad had to fight against inconceivable odds …
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October 10, 2018Of the eminent Indians carrying the surname Bose, Subhas Chandra Bose is the most popular. The rest are all scientists of international fame. Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose and Satyendra Nath Bose need no introduction. Some may be familiar with the name Amar Gopal Bose, inventor and professor of acoustics at MIT, for the Bose music …
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September 23, 2018It is unfortunate that the supreme sacrifice made by Bagha Jatin and his associates is little known outside Bengal and Odisha, although there is no dearth of well-documented historical records. Long before Independence in 1947, there was an attempt under the leadership of Bagha Jatin and Narendranath Bhattacharya better known as MN Roy et al in 1915 — during World War-I — to attain Independence through armed insurrection in cooperation with Germany
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