Mizoram governor Lt General (Retd) Nirbhay Sharma on Monday visited the only surviving member of Subash Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army (INA) among the Mizos - Darthawma - living in south Mizoram’s Lunglei town. Born on May 15 in 1920 at Pukpui Village near Lunglei, Darthawma was enrolled in the Indian Army Medical Corps during World War-II and was sent to Penang Island in Malaysia to fight against the Japanese Army. He found himself on the losing side and among the Prisoners of War in Singapore taken by the Japanese Army. When Bose visited their prison, he, among other soldiers, joined the Azad Hind Fauj (Indian National Army - INA) to fight for India’s Independence. He fought against the British Army along with his INA comrades and Japanese soldiers in Burma before they surrendered to the British with the Japanese Army due to bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Source: Hindustan Times August 22, 2016 15:11 UTC