"Give me blood and I shall give you freedom"
'‘..It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength.... Freedom is not given, it is taken.. One individual may die for an idea; but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. That is how the wheel of evolution moves on and the ideas and dreams of one nation are bequeathed to the next......' Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose'
Subhash Chandra Bose was born on January 23, 1897 at Cuttack, in Orissa. He was the sixth son of Janakinath and Prabhavati Bose.
Got 4th position in Civil Service Examination but he refused to join for calling of motherland.
Elected president of Congress twice (1937,1939)
Formed Forward Block (1939)
Went Germany in 1941
He was warmly received in Japan in 1943 and was declared the head of the Indian army, which consisted of about 40,000 soldiers from Singapore and other eastern regions. Bose called it the Indian National Army (INA) and a government by the name "Azad Hind Government" was declared on the 21st of October 1943. INA freed the Andaman and Nicobar islands from the British, and were renamed as Swaraj and Shaheed islands.
Bose died in a plane crash over Taiwan, while flying to Tokyo on 18 August 1945.
