NEW DELHI: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's daughter Anita Bose-Pfaff has renewed her enchantment to the governments of India and Japan for bringing her father's mortal stays back home.
According to her, Netaji died in an air crash in Taiwan on August 18, 1945 and his stays are preserved at Tokyo's Renkoji temple since September 1945.
"On the 73rd anniversary of my father's passing away, I renew my appeal to the governments of India and Japan to facilitate a transfer of his mortal remains from Japan to India for a final disposal," she mentioned.
"It was my father's ambition to return to a free India. This was unfortunately not fulfilled. Therefore, it would be appropriate if at least his remains touch the soil of Independent India. My father was a devout Hindu. Thus, it is perhaps befitting as per custom to immerse at least part of his remains in the river Ganga," she added.
Hiroshi Hirabayashi, president of the 115-year-old Tokyo-based Japan-India Association, also requested the Indian govt to facilitate the return of Netaji's mortal stays.
In a observation, Hirabayashi, a former Japanese ambassador to India, mentioned, "The ashes of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose kept at Renkoji Temple (in Tokyo) have long been waiting for the official confirmation, already overdue, by the government of India as authentic."
The Renkoji Temple held its annual memorial carrier on Saturday to honour and pay homage to Netaji.
Some purported documents giving evidence on how Netaji died after a aircraft crash in Taipei and the transportation of his stays to Tokyo have been published just lately in a e book by way of Ashis Ray.
In her foreword to the e book, "Laid to Rest: The Controversy over Subhas Chandra Bose's Death", published by way of Roli previous this 12 months, Bose-Pfaff wrote that "the only consistent story about Netaji's demise remains his death in a plane crash on 18 August 1945."
She had also mentioned that a DNA check of the stays of Netaji would put to rest the doubts of people over his dying.
"For most of those people who continue to doubt Netaji's death in Taihoku in August 1945, one possible option for proof would be a DNA test of the remains of Netaji - provided DNA can be extracted from the bones remaining after his cremation," Bose-Pfaff wrote.
According to Bose-Pfaff, if the state of normal knowledge to be had within the later 1940s is thought of as, it's understandable that at the time, an uncertainty prevailed regarding what had happened to Netaji.
"After all, some documents had not been made public at that time. When Sarat Chandra Bose died in 1950 he could still cling to the hope that his beloved brother had not died. And his belief also upheld Emilie's hope that her husband had survived," she mentioned.
"However, as evidence became to be had from the mid-1950s, the one constant story about Netaji's death stays his dying in a aircraft crash on 18 August 1945.
"For me personally, this truth was once introduced home maximum strikingly when I had the chance to be provide right through the interview of one of the crucial survivors of the aircraft crash by way of Professor Leonard Gordon in Tokyo in 1979," Bose-Pfaff wrote.
According to her, Netaji died in an air crash in Taiwan on August 18, 1945 and his stays are preserved at Tokyo's Renkoji temple since September 1945.
"On the 73rd anniversary of my father's passing away, I renew my appeal to the governments of India and Japan to facilitate a transfer of his mortal remains from Japan to India for a final disposal," she mentioned.
"It was my father's ambition to return to a free India. This was unfortunately not fulfilled. Therefore, it would be appropriate if at least his remains touch the soil of Independent India. My father was a devout Hindu. Thus, it is perhaps befitting as per custom to immerse at least part of his remains in the river Ganga," she added.
Hiroshi Hirabayashi, president of the 115-year-old Tokyo-based Japan-India Association, also requested the Indian govt to facilitate the return of Netaji's mortal stays.
In a observation, Hirabayashi, a former Japanese ambassador to India, mentioned, "The ashes of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose kept at Renkoji Temple (in Tokyo) have long been waiting for the official confirmation, already overdue, by the government of India as authentic."
The Renkoji Temple held its annual memorial carrier on Saturday to honour and pay homage to Netaji.
Some purported documents giving evidence on how Netaji died after a aircraft crash in Taipei and the transportation of his stays to Tokyo have been published just lately in a e book by way of Ashis Ray.
In her foreword to the e book, "Laid to Rest: The Controversy over Subhas Chandra Bose's Death", published by way of Roli previous this 12 months, Bose-Pfaff wrote that "the only consistent story about Netaji's demise remains his death in a plane crash on 18 August 1945."
She had also mentioned that a DNA check of the stays of Netaji would put to rest the doubts of people over his dying.
"For most of those people who continue to doubt Netaji's death in Taihoku in August 1945, one possible option for proof would be a DNA test of the remains of Netaji - provided DNA can be extracted from the bones remaining after his cremation," Bose-Pfaff wrote.
According to Bose-Pfaff, if the state of normal knowledge to be had within the later 1940s is thought of as, it's understandable that at the time, an uncertainty prevailed regarding what had happened to Netaji.
"After all, some documents had not been made public at that time. When Sarat Chandra Bose died in 1950 he could still cling to the hope that his beloved brother had not died. And his belief also upheld Emilie's hope that her husband had survived," she mentioned.
"However, as evidence became to be had from the mid-1950s, the one constant story about Netaji's death stays his dying in a aircraft crash on 18 August 1945.
"For me personally, this truth was once introduced home maximum strikingly when I had the chance to be provide right through the interview of one of the crucial survivors of the aircraft crash by way of Professor Leonard Gordon in Tokyo in 1979," Bose-Pfaff wrote.
Netaji's daughter appeals to govt: Bring his mortal remains to India
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