The Lone Wolf-Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

"I have said that today is the proudest day of my life. For an enslaved people, there can be no greater pride, no higher honor, than to be the first soldier in the Army of liberation. But this honor carries with it a corresponding responsibility and I am deeply conscious of it. I assure you that I shall be with you in the darkness and in the sunshine, in sorrows and joys in suffering and in victory."

These were the concluding words of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose on the 5th of July 1943 in Singapore. After taking over the charge of the president of Indian Independence, the speech he delivered that day overwhelmed contingents of the Indian National Army also known as the Azad Hind Fauj. The first Azad Hind Fauj was formed in Berlin in September 1941, comprising Indian prisoners of War from Europe and North Africa.

Azad Hind Fauj was the army unit of the original Indian government exile known as Azad Hind which originated outside India in Singapore with the support of Imperial Japan during the Second World War. They wanted to get rid of the country from British rule. Azad Hind Fauj was recognized by Germany, Japan, Italy, the independent state of Croatia, Wang Jingwei's Government in Nanjing, Thailand, a provisional government of Burma, Manchukuo, and the Japanese-controlled Philippines.

Subhash Chandra Bose was born in Cuttack on January 23rd, 1897. He was the ninth child of Janaki Nath and Prabhavati Bose. Brilliant in his studies Subhash eventually proceeded to England and successfully completed the Indian Civil Service in 1920. To him, life has brought one meaning and one purpose to seek freedom from the bondage of every kind. Vande Mataram solved the dilemma he faced. He was the president of the Indian National Congress.

Returning to India, in 1921, Subhash prepared himself for his baptism of Fire in the Independence struggle. Under the guidance of his Guru Chitranjan Das, he organized a total boycott in Calcutta, on the occasion Of the visit of the Prince of Wales to India. This resulted in the first of his many journeys to jail under British rule.

Bose's most famous quote was "Give me blood and I shall give you freedom!" The Fauj utilized 'Azad Hind radio' to inspire Indians to fight for freedom. Bose used the slogan "Dilli Chalo" To motivate the thousands of soldiers in his historic address after taking over INA. It was a thundering war cry that the men of the Indian National Army heard from the supreme commander.

Taking huge risks, when Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was fighting for Indian independence, a lot of forces were in India that opposed him openly. His efforts were depreciated and even betrayed him to the British. One among the forces was the Marxists. They mocked Netaji as a running dog of imperialism when he opposed their call for support to the British during World War II. The CPM had established an offensive campaign against Netaji.

They published a series of cartoons and hurled choicest insults against him, inconsistently referring to him as a cur held up by Goebbles, the running dog of Japanese general Tojo, the donkey carrying Tojo, a midget being led by a Japanese imperialist, and even as a mere mask of the Japanese imperialist ogre.

It was also written in the People's War magazine that in a Rangoon villa, Bose was living a luxurious life with the corrupt money which was supplied to him by the Axis powers. They also alleged to know the name of the bank that delivered money for the luxurious life of Bose. Magazine, on its 10 January 1943 issue, thundered that if "Bose's mercenary army of liberation, of rapine and plunder... dare rests its foot on Indian soil to enact acts of pillage and robbery" then it would "feel the wrath and indignation of our people"

After World War 2, the very next day Subash leaves the INA headquarters in Singapore with comrades. A Japanese plane took off and he was on board. He was accompanied with Tsunamasa Shidei, Vice-Chief, Japan Kwantung Army. They were headed to Manchuria. The plane they were in crashed in Taipei. Both were killed. This is what the world was officially told. But the plane crash story is still hotly debated.

The commission was established in 2016 on the order of the Allahabad high court, to find a mysterious sadhu whom some assumed to be Netaji. His death took place at Faizabad on September 16, 1985.

It was not the first time someone was portrayed as Netaji. There were other people other than Gumnami-baba who were led by the claimants to believe that Netaji did not die in a plane crash at Formosa in 1945.

Flash: The mystery is alive like the same way the fire of freedom is also alive in our hearts. We all should think of freedom not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

Moral: Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

"Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.!!"