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31 October 2011 The author’s evidence is at best ‘circumstantial’. They encourage us to cling to our earlier beliefs... A review by chhanda chatterjee The original researches of the linguist/ Russologist Purabi Roy sponsored by the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, under the able leadership of its General Secretary Professor Anil Kumar Sarkar, into the question of the disappearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose from the Taihoku airport on August 18, 1945 raises more questions than it solves. The research was made possible by the fall of the Soviet government in 1991. The present work is a product of that project. Ever since the glasnost and the perestroika in the former Soviet Union , Russian scholars had been trying to unveil the mystery of Netaji's disappearance in 1945. One such researcher, Kolesnikov, had referred to a meeting between Stalin, Molotov, Vischenskii and Malik. Kolesnikov later became the Russian Ambassador to Turkey . But when the Mukherjee Commission tried to