The Victoria Memorial Hall has started its year-long centenary celebrations (it was opened to public in 1921) with an exhibition titled Nirbhik Subhas (Fearless Subhas), put together on the occasion of the 125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

The multi-media exhibition, inaugurated on Wednesday morning, is spread across six galleries on the ground floor of the Memorial.

Nirbhik Subhas consists of photographs and documents, graphic panels and projections, Netaji files loaned from the National Archives of India and original artefacts loaned from the Archaeological Survey of India museum on Netaji in the Red Fort complex in Delhi.

A photograph of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, which are part of the exhibition Sourced by The Telegraph

“It will be on for two years, and will act as a ‘living’ exhibition, since we will keep adding things to it,” said Victoria Memorial curator Jayanta Sengupta.

The exhibition has been designed by a Delhi-based agency that has also put together the Netaji exhibition at Red Fort.

The exhibition asks 125 questions about Netaji on his 125th birth anniversary and provides information in the form of stories while answering them. Like with the picture of a Time magazine cover on Netaji, there was a question: ‘Why did Time magazine carry Netaji on its cover?’

The answer: “Netaji was the first Congress president to appear on the cover of Time magazine in the edition dated 7 March 1938. This demonstrated his popularity and status in the freedom struggle.”

The memorial will also run a light-and-sound show on Netaji and the freedom movement on the eastern façade from February.