Tuesday 17 March 2020

NETAJI RESEARCH BUREAU, TRULY?

NETAJI RESEARCH BUREAU, TRULY?

Does NRB truly qualify to be labelled a research bureau? What research has it done on the disappearance issue beyond going by governmental pronouncements in such? What is its credibility when it yet holds on to the air-crash theory despite research revealing the utter hollowness of the claim?

Why does NRB exhibit such an antipathy to any discussion on the disappearance issue? Does it behove a research bureau to behave thus? Why does it not produce the purported original letter Subhas Bose had written to Sarat Bose, uncharacteristically in Bengali, informing him that he had married and had fathered a daughter? How about establishing the authenticity of the Sisir-Ashoke Bose related Great Escape story?

All these unresolved issues ought to be within the purview of research of a bureau dedicated to such, ought it not?

Why not allow Netaji researchers like Drjayanta Choudhuri, Madhusudan Pal, Keshab Bhattacherjee and the like, access to all archival material of NRB for unravelling of the many truths that have thus far been kept under cover or been distorted and propagated?

Can NRB answer all these questions and justify duly its name?

Written by Sugata Bose


Sugata Bose Ashis Kumar Basu I have my reservations, too, but this was in another context that I posted. I have written at length on the Aurobindo-Subhas relation with Dilip Roy the go-between. Those pieces were sharply critical of the Aurobindo line and resulted in heated arguments with Bhaskar Mukherjee, a very good friend of mine. Perhaps, one day those interactions of mine with Bhaskar, with his permission, may be re-posted, that is, if I can sift through my files and trace them.
Sugata Bose Bhaskar Mukherjee Aurobindo Ghosh was the Voltaire and Rousseau combined of the Indian revolution and more. And then his phenomenal contribution to Sanatan Dharma's evolving philosophy and his spiritual guidance for future man.
Sugata Bose Ashis Kumar Basu Yes, we must at some not too distant a point in time begin the discussion on this again. Let me meanwhile locate my past posts in this regard.

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