How many martyrs have shed their life's blood to make this day possible ! The Chapekar brothers -- Damodar, Balkrishna and Vasudev --, Prafulla Chaki, Khudiram Bose, Kanailal Dutta, Satyendranath Bose, Madan Lal Dhingra, Bagha Jatin, Kartar Singh Sarabha, Basanta Kumar Biswas, Anil Ray, Ashfaqullah Khan, Ramprasad Bismil, Chandrasekhar Azad, Bhagwati Charan Vohra, Jatin Das, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar, Shivaram Rajguru, Benoy Krishna Basu, Badal Gupta, Dinesh Chandra Gupta, Pritilata Waddedar, Masterda Surjya Sen, Sachindranath Sanyal, Udham Singh and countless others who sacrificed their lives to free India, not to forget those 26,000 soldiers of the INA that died on their way to Delhi, I salute you all. And salute I the greatest of them, Rash Behari Bose and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose who led the charge unto freedom. Prostrate I this day at the hallowed feet of the greatest of them all whose spirit animated the movement for freedom, Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda, the twin souls that altered the course of our national history by lifting us unto a higher realm whence began the struggle for freedom.
Written by Sugata Bose
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