Bose Garnered Support for India; Showed Solidarity with All of Asia
Sadly, Netaji Bose is not so widely known beyond India, even though his internationalist exploits are far more awe-inspiring than Che’s. He struggled and sacrificed his life not only for India’s liberation, but for the emancipation of all Asian peoples from colonial subjugation.
“Through India’s liberation will Asia and the world move forward towards the larger goal of human emancipation,” he affirmed in his very first radio broadcast from Europe to India in February 1942.
There is no better way of knowing this than to visit the museum in Kolkata or to read Prof Sugata Bose’s acclaimed biography His Majesty’s Opponent — Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Struggle against Empire.
Bose travelled to Japan, Malaya, Thailand, Burma, Vietnam and China. Wherever he went, he sought support for India’s freedom struggle, but he also expressed solidarity with the legitimate aspirations of all the people in Asia….