Netaji Controversy

Amid the controversy over the central government rejecting West Bengal's tableau for the Republic Day parade in New Delhi, the state government has decided to bring out a similar tableau on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in Kolkata.

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's daughter Anita Bose-Pfaff has said that it not "optimal to fight over such things" and that the legendary freedom fighter's contribution should be honoured during the celebrations.

Hours after a huge BJP march on the streets of Kolkata in support of the controversial citizenship law, one of the party's top leaders in West Bengal, Chandra Kumar Bose, posted tweets questioning the act. India is a country "open to all religions and communities", asserted Mr Bose, a grand-nephew of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

The NDA government appears to have waded into the decades-old controversy around the death of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, telling a Right to Information applicant that the Centre has "come to the conclusion" that Netaji died in a plane crash at Taipei on 18 August 1945.

The Japanese government recently declassified archival materials to help settle the long-held controversy over the death of Subhas Chandra Bose, a hero of India's independence movement. The materials show Bose died in a plane crash in Taipei just after the end of World War II.

The measures taken by the Prime Minister in response to the decades-long Netaji controversy missed the forest for one set of trees. India still lacks comprehensive and accountable routines for maintaining accessible public records.

A Japanese interpreter confirmed that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose died at a military hospital in Taipei after a plane crash in 1945, according to information released by a UK website set up to catalogue the last days of the nationalist leader.

A UK website set up to catalogue the last days of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose today claimed that his gold-plated tooth is likely to be found in his last remains held at Renkoji Temple in Tokyo.

A UK website set up to catalogue the last days of Subhas Chandra Bose has released the evidence given by a Taiwanese official who claimed to have prepared Netaji's body for cremation after his death in a plane crash in 1945.

The latest set of witness statements released by a UK-based website set up to unravel the mystery surrounding Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death seem to confirm that the freedom fighter died as a result of a plane crash in Taiwan.

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's proposed visit to Moscow later this month, an independent journalist and grandnephew of Subhash Chandra Bose, Ashis Ray, released a set of documents in London, which he claimed are part of the classified files of the Indian government on the former Congress president, also popularly called Netaji.

"For the last one month a rather strange broadcast is being heard over the radio... The broadcast only says 'Neta Subhas Chandra transmitter... wanted to speak," this was written by Netaji's nephew Amiya Nath Bose in a letter to his brother in 1949 as revealed by one of the secret files on the leader declassified by the West Bengal government.

Subhas Chandra Bose's family has approached the UK government, requesting it to declassify the relevant document on Netaji.

The records related to Subhas Chandra Bose's mysterious disappearance are not being disclosed as they might have been lost, eaten up or disintegrated, first Chief Information Commissioner of the country Wajahat Habibullah today said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met a close relative of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in Berlin, in the middle of a major controversy back home over the revelation that the freedom fighter's family was spied on for many years.

Amid the controversy over the central government rejecting West Bengal's tableau for the Republic Day parade in New Delhi, the state government has decided to bring out a similar tableau on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in Kolkata.

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's daughter Anita Bose-Pfaff has said that it not "optimal to fight over such things" and that the legendary freedom fighter's contribution should be honoured during the celebrations.

Hours after a huge BJP march on the streets of Kolkata in support of the controversial citizenship law, one of the party's top leaders in West Bengal, Chandra Kumar Bose, posted tweets questioning the act. India is a country "open to all religions and communities", asserted Mr Bose, a grand-nephew of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

The NDA government appears to have waded into the decades-old controversy around the death of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, telling a Right to Information applicant that the Centre has "come to the conclusion" that Netaji died in a plane crash at Taipei on 18 August 1945.

The Japanese government recently declassified archival materials to help settle the long-held controversy over the death of Subhas Chandra Bose, a hero of India's independence movement. The materials show Bose died in a plane crash in Taipei just after the end of World War II.

The measures taken by the Prime Minister in response to the decades-long Netaji controversy missed the forest for one set of trees. India still lacks comprehensive and accountable routines for maintaining accessible public records.

A Japanese interpreter confirmed that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose died at a military hospital in Taipei after a plane crash in 1945, according to information released by a UK website set up to catalogue the last days of the nationalist leader.

A UK website set up to catalogue the last days of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose today claimed that his gold-plated tooth is likely to be found in his last remains held at Renkoji Temple in Tokyo.

A UK website set up to catalogue the last days of Subhas Chandra Bose has released the evidence given by a Taiwanese official who claimed to have prepared Netaji's body for cremation after his death in a plane crash in 1945.

The latest set of witness statements released by a UK-based website set up to unravel the mystery surrounding Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death seem to confirm that the freedom fighter died as a result of a plane crash in Taiwan.

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's proposed visit to Moscow later this month, an independent journalist and grandnephew of Subhash Chandra Bose, Ashis Ray, released a set of documents in London, which he claimed are part of the classified files of the Indian government on the former Congress president, also popularly called Netaji.

"For the last one month a rather strange broadcast is being heard over the radio... The broadcast only says 'Neta Subhas Chandra transmitter... wanted to speak," this was written by Netaji's nephew Amiya Nath Bose in a letter to his brother in 1949 as revealed by one of the secret files on the leader declassified by the West Bengal government.

Subhas Chandra Bose's family has approached the UK government, requesting it to declassify the relevant document on Netaji.

The records related to Subhas Chandra Bose's mysterious disappearance are not being disclosed as they might have been lost, eaten up or disintegrated, first Chief Information Commissioner of the country Wajahat Habibullah today said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met a close relative of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in Berlin, in the middle of a major controversy back home over the revelation that the freedom fighter's family was spied on for many years.