Netaji, all too human

Remarkable stories about the life and work of Subhas Chandra Bose and India's late-colonial history fill the pages of Krishna Bose's book

Netaji: Subhas Chandra Bose’s Life, Politics & Struggle

Author: Krishna Bose (Ed. And Tr. Sumantra Bose)

Publisher:  Pan Macmillan India

Pages: 332

Price: Rs 699

Undergraduate students admitted to Presidency University — the erstwhile Presidency College — in Kolkata are often taken by their seniors to the famous staircase where Subhas Chandra Bose, one of the best-known leaders of India’s freedom movement, allegedly assaulted a British teacher in 1916. The teacher, whose name is not very well known, was accused of hurling racist slurs at his Indian students — an entirely believable accusation in colonial India. After India’s independence in 1947, several biopics of Bose