The birthday of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, which fall on January 23 is
a nationalistic festival of West Bengal. Processions with large numbers
of young men and girls in uniform an in military formation parade
every town and important village. The main procession in Calcutta attains
a length of more than three kilometers and groups of boys and girls play
martial band music. The celebrations is a token of Bengal's revolutionary
temper.
