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Prison letters, despite being subjected to the scrutiny of government censors, often supply some of the deepest insights into the mind of a revolutionary. Subhas Chandra Bose’s letters from Mandalay certainly underscore the truth of the poetic assertion: “Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.” They make this volume one of the most moving in the 12-volume set of Netaji’s Collected Works.Subhas Chandra Bose’s exile in ...
On the night of 16-17 January 1941, Subhas Chandra Bose secretly left his Elgin Road home in Calcutta and was driven by his nephew, Sisir, in a car up to Gomoh railway junction in Bihar. Before his departure he wrote a few post-dated letters to be mailed on his return to Calcutta in order to give the British the false impression that he was still at home. Volume 11 of Netaji’s Collected Works opens with one such letter, written to his political colleague Hari ...
On the night of 16-17 January 1941, Subhas Chandra Bose secretly left his Elgin Road home Calcutta and was driven by his nephew, Sisir, in a car up to Gomoh Railway junction in Bihar. Two years later, in February 1943, Bose set out on a perilous submarine journey from Europe to Asia. Between these two journeys lies perhaps the most difficult , daring and controversial phase in the life of India's foremost anti-colonial revolutionary. His writings and broadcasts ...