Rash Behari Bose's only son, Masahide, was martyred during the Second World War in 1944. Rash Behari Bose was still alive and survived the pain for a few more months before he himself passed away. His wife, Toshiko, had already left him long back and now with the passage of one of the greatest revolutionary heroes India had produced, his only daughter, Tetsuko, lived on to see old age with reverent memories of her beloved parents and her dear brother to keep her company.
Our Government has not given due recognition to Rash Behari Bose nor have we civilians done anything by way of remembering the hero who along with Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose brought us freedom. It is time to wake up to these omissions of history and commit ourselves to the redressing of these lapses. Upon our efforts depends our future, upon the reverence we show these liberators of our motherland depends the future well-being of hers and her countless children.
I exhort all to read up on Rash Behari Bose as much as you can and I shall personally not fail to furnish details about the redoubtable revolutionary's life and times. And once more I exhort all those who can read Bengali --- read up Narayan Sanyal's biographical study of Rash Behari Bose entitled 'Rash Behari ke jemon dekhechhi'. Another book of interest and having copious information on the hero is historian Uma Mukherjee's 'Two Great Indian Revolutionaries'. The revolutionaries whose lives have been depicted here are Bagha Jatin and Rash Behari Bose. The pdf file of this book is available on the internet for your easy downloading. The link to it is as follows : https://archive.org/
Vande Mataram!
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo : courtesy, Tapan Bhattacharya
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