Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address 'Parakram Diwas' celebrations in Kolkata on January 23
The announcement assumes significance ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections scheduled later this year
Bose had arrived in Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 1943 after Japan handed them over to his Azad Hind government
Historical scholarship has been so preoccupied with the later nationalists - Gandhi, Patel, Nehru, Bose et al - that it has neglected, or been indifferent to, the individual who started it all.
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Known as Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind, it was supported by the Axis powers of Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany, the Italian Social Republic, and their allies
In an RTI reply, govt said it had come to this conclusion after considering various reports
Coming to contrary views on the issue, Ray said though he understands the emotional attachment with Netaji but there is a need to confront the truth
PM Modi had announced renaming of the Indian Cultural Centre in Malaysia as Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Indian Cultural Centre
The files comprised over 16,600 pages of historic documents, ranging from those from the British Raj to as late as 2007
All declassified files pertaining to Netaji received in the National Archive are first subjected to preliminary conservation.