Subhas Chandra Bose Jayanti: Remembering Netaji On 126th Birth Anniversary With 12 Defining Images

The Government of India had declared January 23 as Parakram Diwas in 2021 to commemorate the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on his arrival at Shonan airport in Japan in 1944 | Photo: Getty

A November 1, 1937 photo of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru at a gathering | Photo: Getty

An image from January 13, 1938 shows Labour politician and then Daily Herald editor George Lansbury greeting Subhas Chandra Bose | Photo: Getty

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose (extreme right) with Mahatma Gandhi, Seth Jamnalal Bajaj (extreme left) and Darbar Gopoldas Dasai (second from left) on the dais at Haripura, Gujarat, at the 51st Indian National Congress on March 1, 1938 | Photo: Getty

Subhas Chandra Bose and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi at the 51st Indian National Congress in 1938 | Photo: Getty

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose flanked by Mahatma Gandhi (left) and Sardar Vallabhai Patel (right) during the 51st Indian National Congress held at Haripura in Surat district, Gujarat, in 1938 | Photo: Getty

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose addressing a gathering in Bombay (now Mumbai) in the 1930s; (right) An unwell Bose, then president of the Indian National Congress, being carried to a meeting of the party in 1939 | Photos: Getty

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the then president of Indian National Congress, with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in Calcutta (now Kolkata), ahead of a meeting on April 7, 1938 | Photo: Getty Images

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose delivers a speech as guest of honour at a festival in Berlin, Germany, in 1942 | Photo: Getty

Subhas Chandra Bose delivering a speech in Hamburg, Germany on September 13, 1942 | Photo: Getty

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose with Adolf Hitler in Berlin, Germany, in May 1942 | Photo: Getty

People view an exhibit after Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the digital copies of 100 declassified files related to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose on his 119th birth anniversary, at the National Archives of India, on January 23, 2016, in New Delhi | Photo: Getty