The aforesaid analysis of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's thoughts on India's major problems, reveals a razor-sharp intellect beneath the veneer of a leonine martial spirit. Netaji Bose visualized a new India where, in Tagore's words, 'the mind is without fear and the head is held high'. Netaji was a votary of freedom of thought. He looked forward to the blossoming of human personality like a fragrant flower. At the same time, he emphasized on rationalism implying that everything must be judged with a critical focus through a judicious exercise of the faculties of reasoning.

Netaji's philosophy of education signified a positive affirmation of life where man could drink the cup of the joy of life full to the brim. His thoughts on national language, were pragmatic and not chimerical. Today in India, we find freedom of thought being stultified and the people are like a rudderless ship tossing around in a tempestuous ocean.

Unfettered reason is the sole emancipator of the human mind and Subhas Chandra was the apostle of reason, not a cold, prosaic ratiocinator but a rationalist with a vision, insight and acumen whose nationalism was punctuated with rationalism. The life of Netaji was romantic and adventurous. Even his rationalism did not reject the romanticism of life but on the contrary, envisaged a vibrant, inspired life pulsating with joy and unfolding the virtues of manhood with their sublime beauty. Thus, in the new millennium we may address him in the words of poet Long fellow, 'Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime/And departing leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. Let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate/still achieving still pursuing learn, to labour and to wait'.