Laid To Rest , a new e-book on the demise of Subhas Chandra Bose -- with a foreword by way of Bose's daughter Anita Bose Pfaff -- gifts an entire "gamut of documentary evidence" to indicate that Netaji perished as a result of a aircraft crash at Taipei on August 18, 1945. The writer of the e-book Ashis Ray, claimed that the remains at Tokyo's Renkoji temple are his and that this can be a dishonour that his remains have now not been dropped at India even after 72 years since his demise.
"There is no mystery, only a lingering and needless controversy. Subhas Bose unquestionably died as a result of a plane crash in Taipei on 18 August 1945. Eleven different official and unofficial investigations -- brought together in my book for the first time -- re-confirm this. The mortal remains preserved at Tokyo's Renkoji temple are undoubtedly his. It is incredible dishonour and disrespect to the memory of a great son of India that his remains have not been brought to India even after 72 years since his death," Ashis Ray, the writer of upcoming "Laid To Rest" told IANS in an e mail interview from London.
In the e-book, Ray, who has been a international correspondent for 40 years, working basically for BBC and CNN, mentions that he used to be well-acquainted with former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao and used to be "able to encourage moves on his part and in effect action by the Government of India" to carry house the remains of Netaji. Elaborating on this, he maintained that Rao too used to be positive that Netaji had died in the aircraft crash.
"Narasimha Rao did not have the slightest doubt that the story of the plane crash was true and that the ashes at Renkoji temple were Subhas Bose's. He was wary of opposition to the ashes being brought to India from Forward Bloc, BJP and a section of Bose's extended family -- and he was, don't forget, running a minority government in parliament which was dependent on opposition support. But he sent Pranab Mukherjee, then external affairs minister, to visit the temple and meet Bose's widow Emilie Schenkl in Germany," added Ray.
However, the Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry (JMCI) document suggested that the tale of Bose's demise in a aircraft crash used to be "nothing but a smokescreen" and used to be rejected by way of the then UPA government in 2006, which maintained that the "the Commission's inquiry was inconclusive in many ways, unable to provide a definitive finding on several issues and at variance with past well accepted Inquiry Commissions' findings in some critical areas".
"I have some sympathy for Justice Manoj Mukherjee because he was hamstrung by none of the survivors of the plane crash being alive to give evidence when he undertook his inquiry. But I obviously don't agree with his finding that Subhas Bose did not die as a result of a plane crash at Taipei. The government's reaction to the report was by no means hasty. It was prompt and proper," Ray quipped.
Ray maintained that even supposing the Narendra Modi-led NDA government has declassified all Government of India recordsdata on Subhas Bose, the ruling dispensation has now not overturned Singh's verdict on the Mukherjee Commission document. "This ratified what I have been maintaining since the mid-1990s - that Subhas Bose died as a result of a plane crash at Taipei on 18 August 1945. Having accessed the facts, Modi realised Manmohan Singh's verdict on the Mukherjee Commission report was correct and didn't overturn it," he additional added.
"All governments in India have to this point proved to be cowardly on the factor of bringing Subhas Bose's ashes to India. The BJP attempted to distance itself from the RTI answer. There are no new facts, instead of what are cited in my e-book, which simply enhance the truth.
"The subject of bringing Subhas Bose's mortal remains has were given caught up in politics; and the attitude of a section of Subhas Bose's prolonged family has been unhelpful to Professor Anita Pfaff. I believe the Government of India has an ethical and legal obligation to honour Pfaff's needs. My knowledge - as elaborated in the e-book - is the Japanese government is unlikely to object to the remains coming to India," concluded the writer.
The e-book, Laid To Rest is revealed by way of Roli Books and will likely be introduced on February 12 at Bikaner House in the capital.
"There is no mystery, only a lingering and needless controversy. Subhas Bose unquestionably died as a result of a plane crash in Taipei on 18 August 1945. Eleven different official and unofficial investigations -- brought together in my book for the first time -- re-confirm this. The mortal remains preserved at Tokyo's Renkoji temple are undoubtedly his. It is incredible dishonour and disrespect to the memory of a great son of India that his remains have not been brought to India even after 72 years since his death," Ashis Ray, the writer of upcoming "Laid To Rest" told IANS in an e mail interview from London.
In the e-book, Ray, who has been a international correspondent for 40 years, working basically for BBC and CNN, mentions that he used to be well-acquainted with former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao and used to be "able to encourage moves on his part and in effect action by the Government of India" to carry house the remains of Netaji. Elaborating on this, he maintained that Rao too used to be positive that Netaji had died in the aircraft crash.
"Narasimha Rao did not have the slightest doubt that the story of the plane crash was true and that the ashes at Renkoji temple were Subhas Bose's. He was wary of opposition to the ashes being brought to India from Forward Bloc, BJP and a section of Bose's extended family -- and he was, don't forget, running a minority government in parliament which was dependent on opposition support. But he sent Pranab Mukherjee, then external affairs minister, to visit the temple and meet Bose's widow Emilie Schenkl in Germany," added Ray.
However, the Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry (JMCI) document suggested that the tale of Bose's demise in a aircraft crash used to be "nothing but a smokescreen" and used to be rejected by way of the then UPA government in 2006, which maintained that the "the Commission's inquiry was inconclusive in many ways, unable to provide a definitive finding on several issues and at variance with past well accepted Inquiry Commissions' findings in some critical areas".
"I have some sympathy for Justice Manoj Mukherjee because he was hamstrung by none of the survivors of the plane crash being alive to give evidence when he undertook his inquiry. But I obviously don't agree with his finding that Subhas Bose did not die as a result of a plane crash at Taipei. The government's reaction to the report was by no means hasty. It was prompt and proper," Ray quipped.
Ray maintained that even supposing the Narendra Modi-led NDA government has declassified all Government of India recordsdata on Subhas Bose, the ruling dispensation has now not overturned Singh's verdict on the Mukherjee Commission document. "This ratified what I have been maintaining since the mid-1990s - that Subhas Bose died as a result of a plane crash at Taipei on 18 August 1945. Having accessed the facts, Modi realised Manmohan Singh's verdict on the Mukherjee Commission report was correct and didn't overturn it," he additional added.
"All governments in India have to this point proved to be cowardly on the factor of bringing Subhas Bose's ashes to India. The BJP attempted to distance itself from the RTI answer. There are no new facts, instead of what are cited in my e-book, which simply enhance the truth.
"The subject of bringing Subhas Bose's mortal remains has were given caught up in politics; and the attitude of a section of Subhas Bose's prolonged family has been unhelpful to Professor Anita Pfaff. I believe the Government of India has an ethical and legal obligation to honour Pfaff's needs. My knowledge - as elaborated in the e-book - is the Japanese government is unlikely to object to the remains coming to India," concluded the writer.
The e-book, Laid To Rest is revealed by way of Roli Books and will likely be introduced on February 12 at Bikaner House in the capital.
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