By a Staff Reporter: We all know that Subhash Chandra Bose, the proud Netaji of all of us, worked as an active nationalist politician, first associated with the Congress and later the Forward Bloc party. But do you know which year Subhash Chandra Bose joined nationalist politics? Do you know how old he was? In 1921, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose entered nationalist politics by holding the hand of Chittaranjan Das. He was 24 years old at that time.