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Netaji Subhas against grip of Gandhi-Nehru: 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. If Nehru is to be considered as the protagonist of India freedom story, not only Subhas Chandra Bose, Vallabhbhai Patel, …

Netaji Declaration of Independence: Today, Oct the 77th anniversary of the formation of the first Indian government. In 1943, on October 21, one of India’s greatest sons – Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose announced the formation of the ‘Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind‘ or the provincial government of free India in Singapore and declared war on the British Empire. 21 October 1943: Netaji …

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Speech: ‘Myth-making‘ is an intrinsic feature of the establishment of any Republic. In order to legitimise its existence and its hold over power, the ruling establishment of every country creates certain myths that helps it further entrench itself in the corridors of power and justify its ideology. A similar phenomenon has also been observed with the establishment …

Bose Not Gandhi Ended British Rule – Why even after 70 years of his disappearance the people of India are so keen on finding out the truth about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose? A part of the answer has to do with what Netaji did for us. Declassified records, testimonies of those who had a ringside view of events coupled with …

Other side of Subhash Chandra Bose: One hundred and nineteen years ago, on January 23, was born one of India‘s most iconic political figures – Subhas Chandra Bose. Forty four years later, in 1941, he left the country never to return, dying in a controversial aircrash on August 18, 1945. Many enquiries later, and with ample historical evidence available, the …

Netaji Subhas Impossible man: Why Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose cannot be appropriated by any party and what Indians can learn from him It is perhaps fitting that Netaji’s death remains a mystery. For no definitive death could have done justice to the life that he lived. That of the impossible man Netaji Subhas Impossible man: Let us start with an …

General Reginald Dyer defending his actions on April 13, 1919, in Jallianwala Bagh How Reginald Dyer, the General who ordered Jallianwala Bagh massacre, was honoured by some Indians Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British was one of the worst events in the history of India. As per British official records, 379 unarmed Indians were killed and 1100 were injured because …