Subhas Chandra Bose was one of India's most prominent freedom fighters.

On January 23, 1897, he was born in Cuttack. He received his education in Calcutta, where he earned a degree in philosophy.

Selected for the Indian Civil Services (ICS), but declined because he did not want to work for the British government.

In 1921, Bose joined the Indian National Congress.  He was the All India Youth Congress's President.

In 1925, Bose was imprisoned in Mandalay  for his nationalist activities. In 1927.

Bose was elected as president of the party in 1939, but was forced to resign due to disagreements with Gandhi's supporters.

Bose's ideology was influenced by socialism and leftist authoritarianism. In 1939, he built the All India Forward Bloc as a faction within the Congress.

At the start of World War II, Bose protested the government for not consulting Indians before dragging them into the conflict.

Azad Hind, or the Provisional Government of Free India, was established as an in-exile government led by Bose.

Bose's fiery speeches energised the troops. "Give me blood, and I will give you freedom!" he famously said.

He left Germany for Japan in 1943, disillusioned with Germany's lukewarm support for Azad Hind.

Bose died of third-degree burns sustained in a plane crash in Taiwan on August 18, 1945.

Many people in India, however, refused to believe he had died. Many inquiry committees were formed to investigate what happened that day.

Subhash Chandra Bose is one of those great freedom fighters whom the nation will always remember. JAI HIND JAI BHARAT

Draupadi Murmu The New President of India