16th Jan, 2016
Mahanishkraman - Jan 16th
75th anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s ‘Mahanishkraman’ (The Great Escape) on January 16, 2016.
On the historic night of January 16-17, 1941, Netaji set out in his Wanderer car from his ancestral home on Elgin Road, Kolkata and reached Gomoh (Jharkhand) on the first stage of his escape from British India. He took the Delhi-Kalka Mail from Gomoh to Delhi and then proceeded to Peshawar in the Frontier Mail. From Peshawar, he went on to Kabul and then, obtained a visa to go to Moscow under the assumed name of an Italian.
This Mahanishkraman marked the departure of Subhas and advent of Netaji in the pages of history.
The daring and carefully planned escape serves as an inspiration to the youth of our country.
On reaching Europe in April 1941, Subhas Chandra Bose was united with his wife Emilie Schenkl, whom he had first met in Vienna in June 1934 and secretly married in December 1937. Their daughter Anita was born on 29th November 1942.
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