For some time, there has been controversy around the death of Subhash Chandra Bose. The official history states that Bose died in a plane crash in Taipei on August 18, 1945 en route from Singapore to Tokyo. Since no body was ever recovered, many Indians refused to believe that Bose was dead, despite three official investigations into the matter. One rumor claims that Bose died in Siberia, in Soviet captivity. The Hindustan Times claims that Bose returned to India where he lived as a hermit named Gumnami Baba (the man with no name) until 1985.
These conspiracy theories have recently taken a surprise twist with support from a most unlikely source, the Taiwanese government:
Taiwan has now told a Indian investigation that there were no plane crashes at Taipei between 14 August and 20 September 1945.
All of this should stir up further interest in the recent Shyam Benegal film Netaji: The Last Hero. For those of you in the Boston Area, the director will be screening his film at the Harvard Film Archive as part of a Tsunami fundraiser on Friday, February 11.
From the northern mountains a priest will come riding on a white horse to liberate India and the world at the hight of a third world war…..May god bless him….