Book review
This well-told biography of Subhas Chandra Bose is a tribute to the man himself who envisaged a free and high-flying India. In a society immured to its fallen state, any serious effort to awake it to the possibility of improvement demands leaders who should be demigods or prophets endowed with a capacity to work miracles. Demigods and prophets in the present-day are unavailable to work miracles. The redemption of India in the state of abasement demanded leaders who were either demigods or warrior-redeemers. Subhas was one of the latter. And he carried this burden as if it were a boon. He was haunted by a call of duty, which should have been answered by many. Extreme personal sacrifices were thus demanded of Subhas and a few other great leaders for the freedom movement. Subhas was haunted from his boyhood days by a sense of shame and guilt about the abasement of his people. Prolonged sufferings to which the imperial rulers subjected him changed him from a dreamy young man to a warrior-redeemer. Number of pages:- 634