“I yearned for my mother’s lap, cried myself to sleep every night, and dreaded the mornings. But Netaji said this is just the beginning. Desh ki ladai main jaana hai toh himmat rakho,” says Rama Khandwala.
A trusted aide of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, ‘Colonel’ Nizamuddin once took three bullets to save the charismatic leader of INA in the forests of erstwhile Burma.