Subhas (A Political Biography)

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In a country bereft of freedom, any serious effort to awaken it to the possibility of improvement demanded great leaders who were required, in a sense, to be demigods or prophets endowed with a capacity to work miracles. Subhas Chandra Bose answered the call to leadership during this turbulent period in Indian history.

At that time, India's redemption lay in the hands of leaders who would have been willing to subject themselves to extreme austerities in order to acquire a necessary moral authority before they could be heard by their compatriots. They had to have the capacity to carry out their responsibilities and bear the cost of their endeavours all by themselves.What should have been a collective enterprise of the Indian people was often the responsibility borne by a few.

Extremepersonal sacrifices were thus demanded of the relatively few great leaders of the freedom movement like Subhas.

Following a prolonged period of suffering under imperial rulers, Subhas-affected as he was by the degradation of his people-changed from a dreamy young man to a warrior-redeemer, transforming the course of India's history forever.

Sitanshu Das has worked as an editor in the Indian Express group of newspapers, The Tribune Trust, Patriot and Link (weekly). Since joining The Times of India, he has held senior domestic and foreign staff positions in some of the major English-language newspapers of India. He worked as a professor of journalism at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication and was a member of the court of the Banaras Hindu University. He was a member of the editorial board of the Fabian Society's journals, Venture and Third World. He was also a long-standing member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), and a member of the BBC Programme Advisory Committee when Philip Mason was its chairman. He was a regular broadcaster on the British and other foreign TV/radio networks. Educated at the universities of Allahabad and Calcutta, he read Transport Economics at the London School of Economics.

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