WHITHER NETAJI? ... 1

My father used to emphatically say, "Such a dynamic personality as Subhas Bose was, he would never remain in hiding as a monk while the country suffered from so many of its ills. Therefore, in all probability, he must have perished in the air-crash. Had he been alive, would he have chosen to live incognito? Certainly not. He was too valorous a person to resort to such a cowardly act. Moreover, he had such an effulgence about him that nowhere in the world would he have been able to hide his identity, assuming that he wished to, for people would have recognised him."

But my father today is no more. He has passed away in 1996 with that idea of Netaji's supposed death. And since then so much new information has surfaced with the publication of the Mukherjee Commission Report to widely re-initiate the debate about the Netaji Disappearance Case.

But what is the truth after all? Let serious and unbiased research be on without the taint of politics undermining such involvement. I exhort the youth to have a re-look into the history of this phase of the freedom struggle, 'Bose post August 18, 1945', and discover the truth that there be and the truth thereof.