Bhagat Ram Talwar
Bhagat Ram Talwar played an active role in India's freedom struggle, and was most known for his role as the friend and comrade of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Talwar helped Bose escape from house arrest in 1941. They made the dangerous journey from Calcutta to Kabul and Netaji eventually made it to Germany. Unknown to Bose, Talwar was a spy for at least four countries, namely, Germany, Japan, USSR, Italy and British-ruled India. Also known by the alias Silver, he was a freedom fighter and a peasant leader from the North-West Frontier Province in present-day Pakistan, and thus identified himself as a "Hindu Pathan." He was of Punjabi descent. He was an agent and prominent figure of the Kirti Kisan Party.
Bhagat Ram Talwar's older brother, Hari Kishan Talwar, was sentenced and hanged in 1931 by the British for his assassination attempt on the British Governor of Punjab, Sir Geoffrey de Montmorency.
Mihir Bose wrote a book on Bhagat titled "The Indian Spy: The True Story of the Most Remarkable Secret Agent of World War II" published by Aleph.
