Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had never married. He was a celibate all his life. There is no documentary evidence to support this absurd theory that he had a wife and a daughter. A conspiracy was hatched thus to malign the leader and besmirch his spotless character with the taint of a secretive marital alliance so that his image suffered and his hold on the public imagination in India was significantly eroded reducing him to a mere mortal in the eyes of hundreds of millions of his countrymen who adored him as a patriot-prophet. Who all were complicit in this conspiracy is anyone's guess but researchers need to expose the perpetrators of this crime that even now is going on with impunity and with categorical support from the interested parties.
That Bose married in Nazi Germany in violation of the existent law there which prohibited Indians from marrying German women and that he did commit such an audacious act thereby compromising his cause of national freedom, that he did so at the height of the Second World War when his own political and physical future along with it were in a terrible state of flux, would prove him to be an irresponsible human being, reckless and uncommitted to a cause, either of the nation or of supposed family in the making, which he evidently was not as his past career had borne ample testimony to. The marriage of Bose, thus, had never taken place for he himself had never publicly announced it nor privately so expect in a letter to his elder brother, Sarat Chandra Bose, whose authenticity researchers have cast doubts on and which needs to be authenticated in a law court by forensic experts. Many years after Bose's disappearance on 18 August, 1945, a cache of love letters purported to be Bose's and written to his supposed wife, Emilie Schenkl, was discovered and these have been freshly foisted on Bose as being letters written by him. Here also the same principle applies that these letters need authentication by a law court for faith to be reposed in them. No such effort has been made for it suits not the parties to be clean in their claims for reasons that are easy enough to guess.
So, there we are. Bose, ever celibate, pure as purity itself, dedicated his life so towards the liberation of his motherland that he neither felt the urge nor the necessity to marry nor did he have a leisure hour at hand when he could indulge in such personal pastime to the exclusion of performance of his national duty. The facts are before you and the inferences thereof are for you to draw. Till then let me meditate on the celibate leader whose lion-heart will foster courage in this drooping soul of mine to meet squarely the vicissitudes of life. I do not lend myself to puerile propositions about the patriot premier that reek of perfidy and choose to ruminate on his life luminous that liberated us from the dark dungeons of colonial conquest. For me Netaji remains the symbol of purity, patriotism and pragmatic perfection in politics, the selfless soul who lived entirely for his motherland and suffered 'death' while living to carry on with his unaccomplished task.
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