CAPTIONS ON NETAJI PHOTOGRAPHS

CAPTIONS ON NETAJI PHOTOGRAPHS

The leader and his lieutenants.

Spiritual son, spiritual father.

Impossible alliance.

The Ranis in combat mode while training.

This is Subhas Chandra Bose speaking.

Raising the toast to solicit support.

The old revolutionary handing over charge to the young one. The baton passes in a sublime act of selflessness.

Preceptor and pupil.

90-day submarine journey with Abid Hassan from Kiel, Germany to Sumatra.

At the Cellular Jail, Port Blair -- reflecting on the martyrdom and incarceration of countless heroes.

Disguised as Count Orlando Mazzotta en route to Berlin via Moscow.

The poet stood by the patriot in his dire hour of distress in 1939 when he was betrayed and side-lined by his compatriots in the Congress.

The shadow looms large and shapes India despite the disappearance.

Brooding the loss of his father.

The young eagle and the patriarch.

Liberating the Andamans -- on his visit to the Cellular Jail, Port Blair.

Main Akbar Shah who helped Netaji escape.

Ancestral house, Cuttack, Odisha.

The Springing Tiger with all its symbolism.

Writing the destiny of India.

My prostrations at the hallowed form, at the lotus feet of Netaji on his 124th birth anniversary, on his 125th birthday.

Farewell.

The golden girls, the sixteen year old Ranis of the Rani Jhansi Regiment.

Befriending the enemy's enemy -- realpolitik to secure freedom.

Patriot perennial.

17 August, 1945, Saigon -- the last photograph.

Tokyo, 1943 -- en route to meeting Emperor Hirohito.

He loved food. Here, having a hearty lunch.

The golden womb -- mother, Prabhavati Devi.