Born in Calcutta five years after India’s independence, I was brought up in the shadow of Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose. One was the first prime minister of India, and during my childhood the most important public figure in the country. The other was the most revered icon in Bengal’s political pantheon. In public discourse and in informal conversations the two figures were often seen as rivals, and many Bengalis were convinced that Subhas, by far the greater man as many Bengalis believed, was deliberately eclipsed in national politics by Jawaharlal who always acted at the behest of Gandhi.我出生在印度独立五年后的加尔各答，在贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁和苏巴斯·钱德拉·博斯的阴影下长大。其中一位是印度的第一任总理，在我的童年时代，他是印度最重要的公众人物。另一位是孟加拉政治万神殿中最受尊敬的偶像。在公开演讲和非正式对话中，这两位人物经常被视为对手，许多孟加拉人相信，苏巴斯，正如许多孟加拉人所相信的那样，在国家政治中被贾瓦哈拉尔故意超越，而贾瓦哈拉尔总是按照甘地的要求行事。