Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Netaji and doon



I was very small kid made smaller by my thin frame, even brother had not touched the teens, we owned an Atlas cycle which was the sole transportation of whole household and still dwelled at chhukhu mohalla and yet to to even think about Parkash nagar house and it was a Sunday bright and cool as ever that much I remember, pitaji took us on the cycle meanwhile Bansal’s from our neighbourhood joined us on his cycle he was accompanied by Anil his son who was prone to epilepsy attacks, both of these guys worked at AmritDhara a ayurvedic medicine factory adjoining Madhuban hotel.later I came to know outing was to pay tribute to some saint who had recently passed away at Ramakrishna mission near Jakhan, still I found it stange my only console was to discover new facets of doon which I wasn’t allowed so far.When we reached the spot, body was lying and I had seen a dead man for first time peculiarity was his nostrils were closed with cotton, we bowed father lifted me up to see clearly and I could notice baldness of the man..as we came out father told me conspiringly did you identify the man.. and than opened the secret..that was Netaji subhash Chandra bose!!!!!
(From Hindustan time archives) :-----
Did Subhas Chandra Bose spend his days as a sadhu in Cooch Behar and then die in Dehra Dun in 1977?
When Justice MK Mukherjee tabled his report in May on the disappearance of Bose, he had mentioned the Dehradun story as one of the five versions that gained currency about Bose’s life post 1945. A swami resembling Netaji had spent about 13 years in West Bengal’s Coochbehar district before arriving in Dehra Dun in 1973. He settled there and died in 1977
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