![]() ![]() Safrani was with Bose when he undertook the death-defying undersea journey from Germany to the Far East. Then, it became a popular form of address and greeting. It was adopted as the national slogan at Free India Centre’s first meeting in Berlin in November 1941. ![]() The man who coined this stirring slogan was Major Abid Hassan Safrani of Hyderabad, a close aide of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. ![]() It had welded the people of this country of diverse languages, cultures, and faiths during the freedom struggle and filled them with a strong sense of patriotism. No slogan had ever cast a greater spell on the nation than this. The following are excerpts from the book. Acharya at the behest of the Freedom Fighters Association. I have had the privilege of translating into English the Telugu book on the life of Netaji Bose by the late Ch. This is the story of Abid Hassan Safrani who, not many may know, was not just the trusted lieutenant of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, but the Hyderabadi who had coined the magical slogan JAI HIND. Hyderabad, TELANGANA : Abid Hassan, born in Hyderabad in 1912, hailed from a patriotic family.
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