Website on Subhash Chandra Bose launched

In what should be considered good news for researchers on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Indian youth across the world, the Delhi-based non-profit trust Mission Netaji and Kolkata-based Jayasree Prakashan announced the launch of a website dedicated to Bose.

Besides containing writings and speeches of Bose, which are now out of copyright, the site www.subhaschandrabose.org will also have articles on Bose written by his contemporaries and revolutionaries. The site will also host one of the oldest Indian magazines on socio-political issues – Jayasree - which was first published in 1931 by revolutionary Leela Roy, a close associate of Bose. The magazine was named by Rabindranath Tagore, and Nandalal Bose illustrated the cover page of its first issue. Jayasree Prakashan has also published Netaji's selected works in Bengali.

Mission Netaji has been working for the last three years to bring to public domain all documents related to inquiries on Bose's disappearance, which are still considered top secret and highly sensitive by the Government. So far it has succeeded in the release of 91 selected documents seen by the G D Khosla Commission. These documents will be available through the website.

"It is regrettable that works of Netaji are available with great difficulty today, and that too through highly priced publications" said a representative of Mission Netaji. "We believe that Netaji's speeches and writings should be easily accessible, preferably free of cost, so that India's youth can be informed about the values that Netaji lived by, and the vision that he had for India" he pointed out.

The two organisations also intend to bring together scholars across the world so that contemporary research is available through the website.

Besides containing writings and speeches of Bose, which are now out of copyright, the site will also have articles on Bose written by his contemporaries and revolutionaries. The site will also host one of the oldest Indian magazines on socio-political issues – Jayasree - which was first published in 1931 by revolutionary Leela Roy, a close associate of Bose. The magazine was named by Rabindranath Tagore, and Nandalal Bose illustrated the cover page of its first issue. Jayasree Prakashan has also published Netaji's selected works in Bengali.

Mission Netaji has been working for the last three years to bring to public domain all documents related to inquiries on Bose's disappearance, which are still considered top secret and highly sensitive by the Government. So far it has succeeded in the release of 91 selected documents seen by the G D Khosla Commission. These documents will be available through the website.

"It is regrettable that works of Netaji are available with great difficulty today, and that too through highly priced publications" said a representative of Mission Netaji. "We believe that Netaji's speeches and writings should be easily accessible, preferably free of cost, so that India's youth can be informed about the values that Netaji lived by, and the vision that he had for India" he pointed out.

The two organisations also intend to bring together scholars across the world so that contemporary research is available through the website.