About the Book: Nehru and Bose: Parallel Lives
Nobody has done more harm to me . . . than Jawaharlal Nehru, wrote Subhas
Chandra Bose in 1939.
Had relations between the two great nationalist leaders soured to the extent
that Bose had begun to view Nehru as his enemy? But then, why did he name one of
the regiments of the Indian National Army after Jawaharlal? And what prompted
Nehru to weep when he heard of Boses untimely death in 1945, and to recount soon
after, I used to treat him as my younger brother?
Rudrangshu Mukherjees fascinating book traces the contours of a