Tag: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

SOURISH BHATTACHARYYA AND AKSHAY ACHARYA MUMBAI – Randeep Hooda’s directorial debut, ‘Swatantrya Veer Savarkar’, has stirred a controversy, thanks to his claim that the Hindutva’s ideologue was the inspiration behind Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Bhagat Singh and Khudiram Bose, the youngest martyr of the freedom struggle. The first salvo was fired by Netaji’s grandnephew and on-again, off-again BJP politician, Chandra Kumar Bose, who warned Hooda in a tweet, “If you respect #Savarkar, please don’t distort history”, and then said in an interview with a news channels that his famous grand-uncle was inspired...