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Netaji Research Bureau chairperson Sugata Bose has shot off a letter to the Victoria Memorial authorities, claiming that one of the relics at an ongoing exhibition at the museum, commemorating the 125th birth anniversary of the legendary freedom fighter, is fake. In the letter to Victoria Memorial Curator Jayanta Sengupta, the leader s grandnephew said the museum authorities had never asked for a copy of Netaji s resignation letter from the Indian Civil Service and what has been put on display there is a fake exhibit. The Harvard University professor and son of Dr Sisir Bose said the authentic photocopy of Netaji s resignation letter from the ICS has been with the bureau for about 50 years.
Abid Hasan, aide to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and the man who coined the slogan “Jai Hind”, was posthumously honoured at an event here on Saturday that resonated with messages of unity and secularism.
Hasan, who was a major in the Indian National Army (INA) and served the country as a diplomat after Independence, was conferred with the Netaji Award 2021 by the Netaji Research Bureau at Netaji Bhavan.
Bureau chairperson Sugata Bose, Netaji’s great-nephew and a Harvard history professor, delivered a speech on “Netaji, Abid Hasan and the Unity of India” that was peppered with anecdotes and highlighted the emphasis Netaji and his comrades laid on inclusiveness and secularism.
PM’s speech was replete with attempts to underscore Netaji’s Hindu background while keeping mum on the icon’s uncompromisingly secular, tolerant, humanist worldview
As the nation is busy celebrating 125th birth anniversary of India s freedom legend Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose with much fanfare, an iconic German Wanderer sedan of 1937 stands silent witness at Bose s Kolkata Elgin Road ancestral home from .