Jonah Raskin, former chair of the Communication Studies Department at Sonoma State University, U.S.A., is the author of fourteen major books that include: The Mythology of Imperialism: Joyce Cary, E.M. Forster, Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, D.H. Lawrence (1971); Out of the Whale: Growing Up in the American Left (1973); Underground (1978); My Search for B. Traven (1980); For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman (1996) and American Scream: Allen Ginsberg's ‘Howl’ and The Making of the Beat Generation (2004). In the late 1960s, he taught English and American literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and for most of the 1970s he worked as a reporter, a journalist and an editor at University Review, a monthly magazine of politics and the arts. As a Fulbright Professor in Belgium, he taught American literature at the University of Antwerp and the University of Ghent. He is now writing a memoir about his life in California and a literary biography of Jack London. He serves on the advisory board of Re-Markings and is a regular contributor to the journal. In this conversation Jonah Raskin shares his impressions of Subhas Chandra Bose as an icon of India’s freedom endowed with sterling qualities of sacrifice and leadership. He can be contacted through his email address: jonah.raskin@sonoma.edu.
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