Subhas Bose and India Today: A New Tryst with Destiny

Pradip Bose, a journalist and author of books on politics, ideology and history, was the Assistant Secretary of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) at its headquarters in Vienna in the early 1960s. He represented the IUSY on the socialist International’s “Subcommittee for Developing Areas”, Thus beginning his interaction with the SI. In the 1980s he was the founder-General Secretary of the Indian Centre for Democratic Socialism (ICDS) in New Delhi, with which SI developed “friendly” relation in the 1990s. The author represented this organization at the meetings of the Council of the SI in Tokyo and of the SI Committee for Asia and the Pacific Region in Kathmandu. He also attended its Congress in Berlin. The absence of any comprehensive book on the SI in English persuaded him to write the book, social Democracy in Practice; Socialist International 1951-2001. Since he is an Indian, it has been written from a “Third World” perspective.