It was the year 1999 when I got admission in Netaji Vidyapith Higher secondary school, Guwahati. I was 12 years old then, and knew very little about Subhash Bose. There used to be a statue in front of the drive-through of our school (it is a BIG facility; so we did have a drive through) , which we cleaned, decorated and paid respect to on 23rd January, 15th August and on such days of national importance. Now, It was a custom and nothing more than that, but it was sufficient enough to raise a curiosity in my young mind about that person.
The intriguing death of an Indian holy man in
1985 suggested that he was none other than Subhas Chandra Bose, the
revolutionary and nationalist who, it is officially claimed, died in an
air crash in 1945. The truth, however, is harder to find, as Hugh
Purcell discovers.
Dear Mr. Attlee:
I
understand from a reliable source that Subhas Chandra Bose, your war
criminal, has been allowed to enter Russian territory by Stalin. This
is a clear treachery and betrayal of faith by the Russians. As Russia
has been an ally of the British-Americans, it should not have been
New Delhi, 2 February, 2010: Calling former Supreme Court judge M K Mukherjee's on camera admission as "eye-opener", three Delhi-based RTI activists have called for an inquiry by the UP government into the Faizabad angle to the Netaji mystery.
Ms Mayawati
Honourable Chief Minister
Uttar Pradesh
2 February, 2010
Subject: Request for appointing an experts' panel to investigate the case of Bhagwanji/Gumnami whom a retired judge of the Supreme Court has identified as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
Respected Mayawatiji
In an upcoming documentary on Subhas Chandra Bose, Justice Manoj Kumar Mukherjee has been shown to make a comment which has given a new twist to the debate that has been going on since his report was rejected by the central government.
The former Supreme Court judge, who was tasked in the first part of the decade with finding the truth about Bose's disappearance, has been captured on camera saying that he "strongly believes" that Bhagwanji of Faizabad was Subhas Bose in disguise.
In a recently released documentary on Subhas Chandra Bose, Justice Mukherjee, who investigated for six years (1999-2005) Bose’s mysterious disappearance, has been shown to make a comment which has given a new twist to the debate that has been going on since his report was rejected by the central government.
In a first instance of its kind, the world's the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has declassified and released to an Indian citizen based in India two records sought under the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
