Lyrical. Painting by Wassily Kandinsky

Subhash Chandra Bose was a great patriot and a determined fighter of national freedom. Unlike other prominent leaders of the freedom struggle, Gandhi and Nehru, Subhash strongly believed that an armed rebellion was necessary to wrest independence from the British. After doing B.A. (Hons.) in first class, he competed for and qualified the I.C.S. examination. But by being in I.C.S. he did not want to serve the imperial government and so resigned from this service. He now jumped into the vortex of freedom struggle and became an active Congress worker