18-Aug-2022: SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE DEATH ANNIVERSARY:
August
18 is the death anniversary of Subhash Chandra Bose, one of India’s most
enigmatic freedom fighters, a revolutionary and a nationalist who continues to
inspire millions of Indians. He believed military strength was required for
India to win its independence. He was also a follower of Swami Vivekananda.
Bose
proclaimed the establishment of a provisional independent Indian government on
October 21, 1943, and fought the British alongside Japanese troops. Let’s
remember one of India’s bravest freedom fighter with some his memorable quotes:
- “Give me blood and I will give you freedom!” One of his most quoted lines is from a speech that Bose delivered to the soldiers of Indian National Army that he commanded along with Mohan Singh.
- “Freedom is not given – it is taken”
- “India is calling. Blood is calling to blood. Get up, we have no time to lose. Take up your arms! we shall carve our way through the enemy’s ranks, or if God wills, we shall die a martyr’s death. And in our last sleep we shall kiss the road that will bring our Army to Delhi.
- “It is only on the basis of undiluted nationalism and of perfect justice and impartiality that the Indian Army of Liberation can be built up.”
- “No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions.”
- “One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.”
- “Soldiers who always remain faithful to their nation, who are always prepared to sacrifice their lives, are invincible.”
- “The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are.”
- “We should have but one desire today – the desire to die so that India may live – the desire to face a martyr’s death, so that the path to freedom may be paved with the martyr’s blood.”
- “When we stand, the Azad Hind Fauj has to be like a wall of granite; when we march, the Azad Hind Fauj has to be like a steamroller.”
