Netaji's mystery!
Your 'Wide Angle' page on January 16 was taken up by three write-ups, related to the final phase of Subash Chandra Bose's disappearance from Japan during the last World War. The mystery of his death while travelling in a Japanese aircraft has remained unsolved or kept a secret by the Indian authorities till today, adding to the complexity of the episode!
One wonders why the matter related to the identity and background of the mysterious "Gumnami Baba" (No name Mendicant!) is shrouded in secrecy still! There was no follow-up with the two doctors: T. Banarjee and P. Banerjee (father and son), who treated the 'Baba" before his death. It has been deliberately kept off public domain, more so when many thought that he was possibly the mysterious and so long-missing Subash Chandra Bose?
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy said: "According to the papers that exist with us, Bose had faked his death and escaped to Manchuria in China which was under Russian occupation, hoping Russia would look after him. But Stalin put him in a jail in Siberia. Somewhere around 1953, he hanged or suffocated Bose to death."
Till date this political event remains the biggest mystery of the 20th century.
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