- Indian political leader and fighter for independence.
- Father of Prof. Anita Pfaff.
- Even after his supposed death, Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, in their capacities as Prime Minister and Home Minister respectively, kept Bose's family members in Kolkata under continuous surveillance.
- Was conferred upon with India's highest civilian honour, Bharat Ratna in 1992 under posthumous citation. His family refused the award stating Bose and his contributions to the nation were bigger than the award itself.
- Regarded fellow Congress leader Chitaranjan Das as his mentor and the holy book Bhagwad Gita as his ultimate source of inspiration.
- Stood 4th in the All India Civil Services Examination, making him eligible to serve at a state level posting. Instead, Bose opted to join the Indian Independence Movement.
- Resigned from the Congress in 1939 after M.K. Gandhi refused to acknowledge his re-election as party president. Bose thereafter founded the All India Forward Bloc.
- A portrait of Bose hangs in the Indian parliament building as well as alongside Nehru and Gandhi in nearly every government affiliated office across India.
- The international airport in Kolkata is named after him.
- Was the first person to acknowledge MK Gandhi as "Father of the Nation" during one of his radio broadcasts in which he sought Gandhi's blessings to continue the struggle for India's independence when it became apparent that the Indian National Army had been decimated by British forces on the Burmese border.
- Even after his reported death in a plane crash in Formosa in 1945, conspiracy theories continue to persist Bose was alive well after India's independence in 1947. One theory suggests Bose escaped to Soviet Russia to link up with Joseph Stalin but was in turn executed for his past collaboration with Nazi Germany. Another theory suggests he did return to India, but lived in complete animosity as a hermit before finally dying in the 1970s.
- Although he's most renowned for his leadership of the Indian National Army, the professional brass of the Japanese military which supplied the INA with material and logistics regarded Bose as "a great motivational speaker at best but militarily unskilled".
- Generated significant controversy when a photograph of his emerged with Nazi Germany's SS chief Heinrich Himmler.
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