Subhas Chandra Bose, affectionately called Netaji, was one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian freedom struggle. Though Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru have garnered much of the credit for the successful culmination of the Indian freedom struggle, the contribution of Subash Chandra Bose is no less. He has been denied his rightful place in the annals of Indian history. He founded Indian National Army (Azad Hind Fauj) to overthrow British Empire from India and came to acquire legendary status among Indian masses.
Subhas Chandra Bose was born on January 23, 1897, in Cuttack, Orissa. His father Janaki Nath Bose was a famous lawyer and his mother Prabhavati Devi was a pious and religious lady. Subhas Chandra Bose was the ninth child among fourteen siblings. Subhas Chandra Bose was a brilliant student right from childhood. He topped the matriculation examination of Calcutta province and graduated with a First Class in Philosophy from the Scottish Churches College in Calcutta. He was strongly influenced by Swami Vivekananda's teachings and was known for his patriotic zeal as a student. To fulfil his parent's wishes he went to England in 1919 to compete for Indian Civil Services. In England, he appeared for the Indian Civil Service competitive examination in 1920 and came out fourth in order of merit. However, Subhas Chandra Bose was deeply disturbed by the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre and left his Civil Services apprenticeship midway to return to India in 1921.
India got it's independence and the most prominent political frontier was Indian National Congress with two different ideologies originating from two different pillars -
1) Aggressive approach by Netaji S B Bose
2) Non-violence approach by Mahatma Gandhi
Which one do you think was more effective? And why do you think must be the reason the 1st approach is less depicted in our History textbooks in school and non- violence is emphasized more?
People have themselves created Gandhi Vs Bose to a larger extent, somewhat big as compared to the reality. The difference was merely in ideologies i.e their perspectives with which they handled the situation. Gandhiji called Bose the "Prince among the patriots" whereas Bose called Gandhi "Father of Nation", both had respect for each other. Even we can see many similarities too. Both were religious men and disliked communism, Considered socialism, worked against untouchability and spoke for women empowerment. In my opinion, the difference came with the "approach". Gandhi opposed centralisation where Bose felt that to be favourable to eradicate poverty. Bose was deeply attracted to military discipline while Gandhiji was against the military. Here comes the conflict. It's a common human nature, generally, if someone denies the way we follow or criticise it or is against that clashes happens, similar things happened here. Gandhiji was against Industrialisation whereas Bose was in favour of large industrialisation for India, here I believe Gandhiji was favouring equity, he was more into the development of rural areas concentring more on the primary sector to bolster it. Regardless of all, each appreciated the work done by each other in the National struggle for freedom. Answering the next I believe, as Bose was attracted to the military he left Congress in 1939. So in the latter part of the Independence movement, he was not a part of the freedom movement hence doesn't have much presence as compared to Gandhiji in school textbooks. We could argue endlessly about the relative contributions.
Why Recently in news:
In order to commemorate the 125th birth anniversary of the great freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and as part of the year-long celebrations, the government has decided to install a grand statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at India Gate.
The statue, made of granite, shall be a fitting tribute to the immense contribution of Netaji in our freedom struggle, and would be a symbol of the country’s indebtedness to him.
Till the work for the statue is completed, a hologram statue of Netaji will be present at the same place. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will unveil the hologram statue of Netaji at India Gate on 23rd January, 2022.
The hologram statue will be powered by a 30,000 lumens 4K projector.
An invisible, high gain, 90% transparent holographic screen has been erected in such a way so that it is not visible to visitors. The 3D image of Netaji will be projected on it to create the effect of a hologram. The size of the hologram statue is 28 feet in height and 6 feet in width.
▪️Subhas Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskars :
During the programme, Prime Minister will also confer the Subhas Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskars, for the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 in the investiture ceremony. A total of seven awards will be presented during the ceremony.
Union government has instituted the annual Subhas Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar to recognize and honour the invaluable contribution and selfless service rendered by individuals and organisations in India in the field of disaster management.
The award is announced every year on 23rd January.
The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 51 lakh and a certificate in case of an institution and Rs. 5 lakh and a certificate in case of an individual.
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