Vishwas Patil's iconic Marathi novel brings originality and new ideas to the most storied of lives?Subhas Chandra Bose's. Bose, possibly the most enigmatic figure in the history of India's freedom struggle, split the Congress along ideological lines with the two stalwarts of the Independence movement, Gandhi and Nehru. Despite this, he held them in high regard, just as they did him. While Bose asserted the independence of his own values even as he sought assistance from the Axis powers?Nazi Germany, Italy, and later Japan?during World War II, many saw it as treasonous and dangerous.