Affected by his own oratory, Bose could not continue. The audience waited, transfixed, until the Indian leader composed himself again. “But we have to pay the price of our liberty.… I do not know how many members of our national army will survive the coming war, but that is of no consequence to us. Whether we individually live or die, whether we survive the war and live to see India free or not, what is of consequence is the fact that India shall be free.” Toshi
