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Subhas the immortal
Reminiscences, Pattabhi Sitaramayya
Today's politics is tomorrow's history. That is but a truism. But events happen in life which being the politics of the day, constitute the history of the day as well. Such is the flight of Subhas Babu beyond the borders of India across the fastnesses of Kabul to unknown regions for achieving unsuspected purposes......more>>
Recollections and reflections
Reminiscences, Rafi Ahmad Kidwai
I first came in contact with Subhas Bose in 1923 at Delhi when the Congress was divided into two groups over the question of what was known as 'Council Entry.'...Subhas Babu, as the favourite lieutenant of Deshabandhu, was playing a prominent part in the controversy. more>>
Recent Updates
Of double speak
22 January, 2012
They say history repeats itself. So it does, it would seem, at least as far as the successive Congress-led Governments' attitude towards the alleged death of Subhas Chandra Bose in a plane crash is concerned.
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The Young Subhas
Reminiscences, Hemanta Sarkar
Bose's closest friend of his school days, Hemanta Kumar Sarkar, wrote two books on him. The first book - a short biography, which also contained the letters exchanged between them - was published in 1927 According to Sarkar, Bose was not happy with him on the account of publishing the letters.
Read Subhas Chandra (published in 1927)
Subhaser Songe Baro Bochhor (1946)
Editorial
Politics of tokenism
22 January, 2012
The West Bengal Chief Minister has demanded that the Central Government declare Netaji's birthday (23 January) a national holiday. The Centre has turned down the request, and rightly so. Announcing a holiday is not the way to show respect. There are better alternatives. And it is here that the Congress-led Governments have always confused the people of the country with its strange ways of showing respect or remembering past greats.
When the All India Forward Bloc proposed that 23 January be celebrated as Deshprem Divas, the UPA Government refused it on the ground that Netaji was not the
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