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Netaji's daughter says his remains should be brought back to India
In a statement, Pfaff, the only child of Netaji, said since her father did not live to experience the joy of freedom, it is time that at least his remains can return to Indian soil.
"Modern technology now offers the means for sophisticated DNA testing, provided DNA can be extracted from the remains. To those who still doubt that Netaji died on August 18, 1945, it offers a chance to obtain scientific proof that the remains kept at Renkoji temple in Tokyo are his," she said.
"The priest of Renkoji temple and the Japanese government agreed to such a test, as the documents in the annexures of the last governmental Indian investigation into Netaji's death (the Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry) show," she said.
"So let us finally prepare to bring him home! Nothing in his life was more important to Netaji than his country's independence. There was nothing that he longed for more than living in an India free of foreign rule! Since he did not live to experience the joy of freedom, it is time that at least his remains can return to Indian soil," she added.
Netaji's death remains shrouded in mystery though it is widely believed that he died in a plane crash on August 18, 1945 in Taiwan.
While two commissions of inquiry had concluded that Netaji had died in a plane crash in Taipei on August 18, 1945, a third probe panel, headed by Justice M K Mukherjee, had contested it and suggested that Bose was alive after that.
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Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s daughter Anita Bose Pfaff deplores female infanticide in India
Anita Bose Pfaff, daughter of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, has expressed her anguish at the killing of girls in India, Pakistan and other countries. Delivering a lecture to commemorate the 74th anniversary of the Proclamation of Netaji Subhas Bose’s Provisional Government of Free India, here last night, Bose Pfaff said true emancipation of women is not only to their advantage, but also to the advantage of the population as a whole. Quoting Netaji, she said “If you educate a man you educate one person, if you educate a woman you educate a whole family”. “If you look at the gender-specific composition of the population – more than half are men – something is seriously wrong. Girls are killed in India, Pakistan and other countries. Because this pattern does not occur naturally! If women’s education and women’s rights are improved this will also contribute towards population control,” she said.
She noted that in spite of a fair track record in many walks of life, “India continues to be wrought by many overwhelming problems that need to be addressed”. Bose Pfaff said in order to improve the standard of living, India has to ensure economic growth. At the same time this has to be done with greater concern for the environment than what industrialised countries in the West and East have done. She said resources have to be found that enable a steady investment in the education of the masses.
A further inroad into the improvement of public health has to be achieved. “This is partly a matter of investment in health care, but more even an improvement in hygiene and the environment. Clean water is a must for everyone,” she said. While Bose Pfaff said she is convinced of corruption being one of the most crippling problems of the country, she confessed she did not have the “faintest idea” how
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's daughter Anita Bose Ptaff to visit India later this year: MEA
The Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement that Anita Bose Pfaffhad conveyed to the Indian consulate in Berlin that she would be visiting India in the last quarter of this year when she intends to meet Modi.
MEA spokesperson Vikas Swaroop, who is accompanying External Affairs Minister Sushma Swarajat the Asian African Summit here, also denied claims that Pfaff was not invited for the public reception hosted by the Indian Embassy in Berlin in honour of Modi on April 13 during the prime minister's visit to Germany.
"Our embassy in Berlin had invited Anita Pfaff for the public reception in Berlin on April 13. Anita Pfaff conveyed that it is difficult for her to make the long journey from Bavaria where she resides to Berlin to come for the community event," Swaroop said.
Netaji's grand nephew Surya Kumar Bose had also met Modi in Germany and claimed to have got an assurance that his demand for declassification of all secret files related to the freedom fighter would be looked into.
Yesterday, a relative of Bose had reportedly claimed in New Delhi that Pfaff was not invited for the event.
Subhas Chandra Bose’s daughter wants DNA test of ashes in Renkoji temple
New Delhi: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s daughter Dr Anita Bose Pfaff wants a DNA test to be conducted to establish whether the ashes kept in a Japanese temple are her father’s, but believes that the 1945 aircrash in Taipei was the “most likely cause” of his death.
“I believe that the plane crash is the most likely cause of his death,” Pfaff said when asked whether she believes in the theory that her father died in an air crash near the Taihoku aerodrome in Taipei on 18 August 1945.
However, she said she wants a DNA test of the ashes kept in an urn at a Buddhist temple in Tokyo to ascertain whether the remains belong to the freedom fighter.
“A DNA test could provide proof, provided that the bones are not too badly charred for extracting DNA,” Pfaff, the only child of Subhash Bose and Emilie Schenkl, told PTI in an interview from her home in Stadtbergen, Germany.
Bose family sources said the 73-year old German economist, who is likely to visit India next month, may urge the Indian government to talk to Japan for conducting DNA test of the remains kept in the Renkoji temple in Tokyo.
On whether the recently declassified documents sufficiently proved Netaji’s death in the aircrash, Pfaff said “while I have only looked at a few files, I get the impression that a death certificate is not contained.”
Asked about her opinion that Bose was not treated with as much respect as were leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, Pfaff said: “That certainly seems to be the case for the official treatment. “But the general public, the so-called man in the street, however, seem to have kept his memory alive in a very touching way. It was a shame how the Indian government treated the INA veterans for decades.”
To a question about Nehru’s approach towards Bose, she merely said, “Since their relationship lasted over many years, it was multi-faceted, I imagine. In many asp