Suman Ghosh | | Published 15.03.21, 01:40 AM Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Rabindranath Tagore are Bengal’s two greatest icons. Though there were commonalities in their philosophy and politics, there were also differences. It might be fair to say that Tagore was more of an individualist while Bose was more communitarian. While Tagore was not involved actively in the freedom struggle since he was against notions of “nationhood” to which the individual must be subservient, Bose was involved in it with vigour. Not much has been written about the unusual relationship between these two towering personalities although they interacted several times. Right from his student days in Cuttack, Bose had been enthralled by Tagore’s poetry and used to recite them at events. His first interaction with Tagore happened in 1914 when he was a student of Presidency College, Calcutta, and visited Santiniketan with some of his fellow students.