TY - BOOK AU - Bose, Subhas Chandra TI - The call of the motherland: writings and speeches 1923-1929 SN - 9788178244938 U1 - 954.035 BOS-S PY - 1982/// CY - India PB - Permanent Black KW - India KW - Politics and government N1 - “We have been born in this world to fulfill a purpose – to preach a message”, reads the opening sentence of Subhas Chandra Bose’s 1923 essay The Dreams of Youth (Taruner Swapna). “One hundred and fifty years ago,” he wrote in The Call of the Motherland (Desher Dak) in December 1925, “it was the Bengalees who showed the foreigners the way to penetrate India. Now it is incumbent on the Bengalees of the twentieth century to expiate that sin.” ER -