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Sugata Bose, grand-nephew of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, has said the Victoria Memorial Hall has overnight changed the captions and credit of the displays at Nirbhik Subhas, an exhibition on Netaji, that he had said were “fake” in a letter on Saturday.
The display showing the resignation letter by Subhas Chandra Bose from the Indian Civil Service was called “fake” by Sugata Bose as “the handwriting was not that of Netaji and had several anomalies including spelling mistakes and wrong salutations”.
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On Sunday, the display had no spelling mistakes, the salutation was changed and the credit to the display reads: “This is the original letter published in the book A Pictorial Biography NRB (Netaji Research Bureau). Above is the artistic recreation of the original document for bettervisibility.”
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.
Shikha Mukerjee | Battle for Bengal: BJP to face hidden pitfalls
Published : Jan 26, 2021, 12:05 am IST
Updated : Jan 26, 2021, 12:05 am IST
Steering between the simplistic and the messy complexities of identity politics in West Bengal, the BJP is travelling over a minefield
If the BJP had studied the traditions of the celebration of Netaji Jayanti in West Bengal over the decades, it would have discovered the facts and stopped itself from inventing a fiction. (Photo:PTI)
Before it can defeat Mamata Banerjee, the BJP has to find a way of disarming the Bengali. As a target, Mamata Banerjee could be vulnerable if the grievances of the discontented were the only issue. But the Trinamul Congress and its leader are embedded in the tricky topography of West Bengal, which is peppered with hidden pitfalls.
‘Jai Shri Ram’ At Netaji s Birth Anniversary Function: Mamata Banerjee’s Shout Of Silence
This round goes to Mamata Banerjee with her dignified refusal to deliver a speech to the chants of Jai Shri Ram at Netaji s birth anniversary function File Photo Anjana Basu 2021-01-25T13:28:21+05:30 ‘Jai Shri Ram’ At Netaji s Birth Anniversary Function: Mamata Banerjee’s Shout Of Silence outlookindia.com 2021-01-25T18:36:26+05:30
“Jai Shri Ram!” for a while that cry has been creeping into my consciousness beginning with when the first Hindu Rashtriya workers began materialising in the Lakes and teaching children to repeat the slogan. I heard it in a narrow lane early in the morning when a durwan (guard) greeted a Hindi-speaking friend and then again when the chant seemed to march outside my window down Gariahat with determined defiance only to slip into a more normal ‘Inquilab Zindabad!’ “Don’t worry about it,” a friend advis