- Born in Cuttack, Orissa Division, Bengal Province.
- Government has announced that January 23, birth anniversary of Subhas Chandra Bose, would be celebrated as “Parakram Divas”, a day of courage, every year.
- In 1942, he earned the title ‘Netaji’, in Germany from the Indian soldiers of the Azad Hind Fauj.
- Bose is credited with the famous slogan, “Give me blood, and I shall give you freedom!” as well as “Jai Hind.”
- He is also credited to be the first man to call Mahatma Gandhi “Father of the Nation,” in his address from Singapore.
- After leaving the service Subhash joined the non-cooperation Movement but was not satisfied with the principle of non-violence of Gandhiji and supported Motilal and C.R. Das in the venture of organising the Swarajist party.
- In 1921, Bose worked under Chittaranjan Das, a powerful politician in Bengal. He worked as the editor for Das’s newspaper, Forward, and later started his newspaper, Swaraj.
- He joined the Indian National Congress in 1927 and supported the idea of complete independence (Purna Swaraj). With his support, Jawaharlal Nehru passed the resolution of Poorna Swaraj in 1929.
- During the mid-1930s Bose travelled in Europe. He researched and wrote the first part of his book, The Indian Struggle, which covered the country’s independence movement in the years 1920–1934.
- After his return, Bose took over as the elected President of Congress in 1938 (Haripura) and stood for unqualified Swaraj (self-governance) and the use of force against the British which then combated against Mahatma Gandhi and his views.
- Bose was re-elected in 1939 (Tripuri) but soon resigned from the presidency and formed the All-India Forward Bloc, a faction within Congress that aimed at consolidating the political left.
- He was elected as Congress President in 1938 when the annual session was convened at Haripur in Bengal. He established the National Planning Committee to ensure equal distribution of wealth among diverse sections. This committee marked the beginning of an era of economic planning in India.
- He resigned in 1939 due to differences with Mahatma Gandhi and set up the All-India Forward Bloc. Through this, he wanted to gather all the radical elements around him, which would aid him in the freedom struggle.
