A World View on The Netaji

By T J S George 14th July 2012 11:26 PM A return to the theme of Subhas Chandra Bose is necessitated by the “discovery” of two books. Both are by Lt. Manwati Arya who was born in Burma and joined the INA’s women’s wing, the Rani Jhansi Regiment, in her early 20s. Patriot (2007) is a “personalised biography” of Netaji. It is flowery and exaggerated: Bose’s marriage to Emilie Schenkl is called “the divine wedlock”. Judgment: No Aircrash, No Death (2010) is a compendium of records and stories about Netaji’s widely reported death in Formosa in an aircrash. The burden of the book is that both the aircrash and the death were figments of Japan’s—and Netaji’s—imagination and that in fact Bose escaped to Russia, then made his way to India. (With Japan collapsing in the war, the British were planning to arrest Bose. Which would explain his eagerness to avoid landing in Japan). These are not books* in the modern idiom, with style and polish making for pleasurable reading. But they contain h...

Political lineage of Subhas Chandra Bose turned out to be a burden for INA veterans n his assessment of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Ram Manohar Lohia describes Bose as the embodiment of the Haldighati spirit. Drawing an analogy with Rana Pratap's refusal to accept defeat to the Mughal army, Lohia says Bose accepted neither defeat nor the withdrawal of lassitude. The Haldighati spirit does not believe the world will end with the current generation. It believes that the ultimate source of strength and goodness lies in the power of the will. But, Lohia writes, how clean, knowing , unselfish and undefeated is this spirit? This description also fits the action-packed life of Bose's close associate in the Indian National Army (INA), Captain Lakshmi Sahgal , who passed away at the age of 97 in Kanpur recently. Even her last act - to donate her eyes to a needy person and her body to medical students - reflected a radical edge undiminished by age. But how appreciative was...

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http://www.rediff.com/news/special/did-pranab-mukherjee-play-a-role-in-the-netaji-mystery/20120702.htm Did Pranab Mukherjee play a role in the Netaji mystery? July 02, 2012 15:40 IST The latest book by journalist Anuj Dhar on the mystery of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death/disappearance points to a discouraging role by Pranab Mukherjee [ Images ] in resolving it, writes Vicky Nanjappa. India's Biggest Cover-up, the just-released book authored by Anuj Dhar is expected to set the cat among the pigeons. The insight into the Subhas Chandra Bose mystery relies on official records, bulk of them still security classified in violation of democratic norms, to invalidate the air crash theory about Netaji's death. Dhar has spent more than a decade in making sense of the vexed issue. In the course of his efforts, Dhar obtained information from the Taiwan government ruling out the alleged air crash which supposedly killed the nationalist leader. In a previous book Dhar reached...

Dr Laxmi Sehgal - Commander of INA Fauj - Jhasi regiment passes away at 97 today only to make us wonder what the honour and respect the nation's new rulers have had bestowed on her. Her name is now the epitome of medical service.Tlll her last days she was serving and treating her poor patients.The nation could not honour her beyond a Padmabibhusan. The ruling NDA though was supportive of INA movement but Laxmi Sehgal's presidency candidature on behalf of Communist lobby of India did not go well with the NDA who had the maximum votes in their bag and lost it miserably not for her fault but for lack of gratitude of the power loving Indians at the corridors of legislature. “The fight will go on,” said Captain Lakshmi Sahgal one day in 2006, sitting in her crowded Kanpur clinic where, at 92, she still saw patients every morning. She was speaking on camera to Singeli Agnew, a young filmmaker from the Graduate School of Journalism, Berkeley, who was making a documentary on her l...

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Was Netaji alive in 1946? 19 April 2012 rajinder puri THE mystery surrounding the last days of Subhash Chandra Bose has been fiercely debated for decades. The debate is likely to revive shortly. New circumstantial evidence has surfaced to suggest that Netaji was alive in 1946. Two commissions of inquiry probing Netaji’s death stated that in 1944 he died in a plane crash in Taiwan. The Shah Nawaz Commission set up in 1956 concluded that Netaji had died in that plane crash. There was public criticism of this theory. To allay public misgivings the government in 1970 appointed the Justice GD Khosla Commission to probe Netaji’s death. It endorsed the plane-crash theory. The public’s disbelief did not abate. In 1999, the government was compelled to set up the Justice MK Mukherjee Commission. This Commission ruled out death due to the air crash, stating that no plane crash had occurred. But the Commission for want of evidence, failed to establish whether Netaji had lived beyond 1944. The...

SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE AND YOUTH TODAY * Dr. Barun Mukherji, M.P. Speaks on Netaji at London. On an invitation from Netaji Subhas Foundation (NSF), London Dr. Barun Mukherji, Member of Parliament and National Secretary, All India Forward Bloc delivered a lecture on 'Netaji Subhas and Youth today' at the Nehru Centre, London on 30 July 2009. This annual lecture session was organised by the NSF in collaboration with Nehru Centre, cultural wing of the High Commission of India in London. Mr. Virendra Sharma, Member of Parliament, House of Commons, U.K. and Mr. Chandra Bose of AIFB also spoke on the occasion. Sm. Madhuri Bose welcomed the speakers on behalf on NSF, London, Mr. Subhas Khale, Conventor of NSF, London presided over the function. Many distinguished persones were present among the audience. The text of Dr. Mukherji speech is given below: 1. During the freedom movement of the country, Subhas Chandra Bose was the most popular youngest national leader of the awakened...

 Even as Subhas Chandra Bose's 115th birth anniversary was recently observed, Tapan Chattopadhay, retired IPS officer who worked in the Intelligence Bureau for two decades, spoke to ...... about how Netaji shook up the British Raj, the Indian National Army   What prompted your research? A decade and a half ago I chanced upon British intelligence documents while researching Subhash Bose and the INA. The documents showed British intelligence was very worried about the INA’s secret service till then the INA was considered disjointed isolated effort. I decided to delve deeper  Is there enough documentary evidence on the INA’s secret service ?   There are enough documents of the British administration intelligence and army British intelligence code named INA’s land based spies JIFCS - Japanies Inspired Fifth Columnist Spies and those dropped by parachutes BATS – Burmese Area Trained, revamped their intelligence interrogation apparatus to counter INA ac...

GURGAON: Jag Ram, 89, an Indian National Army (INA) veteran, who once was a guard of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in Rangoon, is now busy fighting a different battle. He is forced to literally fight with his tenants to collect their monthly rents from them. The veteran has to argue with tenants, mostly shopowners, at the end of every month. He went to the city administration's Republic Day function where he was offered a shawl, like other freedom fighters. "I spoke to some officials about my injured leg and the problem I am facing due to bad tenants," said Ram while sweeping the floor outside the house. Last week he met the HUDA administrator, Praveen Kumar, and the war veteran wasted no time in telling about his tenants. "I am thankful that after the administrator's intervention I got some of the pending rent but I don't know if these people will pay the rent regularly next month or not," said Ram. The INA veteran has six shops and four rooms on ren...