On 21st Oct 1943 the Provincial Govt of Azad Hind was proclaimed and in a mid-night declaration on 22-23 Oct, Netaji's Provincial Govt declared war on Great Britain and the US.
History followed this legendary man and his men in uniform thereafter .... but not too far could it follow...., for, after 17 Aug 1945 whatever happened to Netaji could hardly be recorded by any historian. While historical texts about Netaji stopped at the airfield of Taihoku declaring the mortal death of the immortal soul in a plane crash on 18 Aug, the mortal being ventured on a new chapter of history unknown.
And today, three generations of researchers, investigators and curious citizens of Free India attempting to rewrite the history by collecting, organizing, analyzing and joining together thousands of pieces of evidences gathered from around the world. Interestingly all the successive Governments of Free India since independence chose to distance themselves from the country's greatest freedom fighter and preferred to guard their classified files on the first person of the first Free India Government keeping them in a buried 'black box'.
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