The Man who never Died

Even after 70 years of the proclaimed death of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the actual reason of his death is still a controversy. While some believed he really died in the alleged plane crash on August 18^th of 1945, in Japan occupied Farmosa which is now in Taiwan, a major number of his followers and many theorists believed that Netaji was actually alive for quite a long time. Some said that Netaji had been held captive by the Soviet army or he has been in hiding in China or in Mongolia, but the stories of Subhas Bose living in disguise of Sharadanandji at Soulmary Ashram or as a Gumnami Baba at Faizabad are the most popular ones. 

Whatever it maybe, whenever he may have died, nothing prominent has been ever done to dig out the true facts of Bose’s death. From Jahawarlal Nehru to Atal Bihari Vajpai, whenever something was done to explore the truth there was a certain cover-up. Subhas Bose is the hero of this nation, one of the greatest human beings this nation has ever produced, but there has always been a sense of discretion over the information and knowledge over his death. The changing global relationships might be a reason for such discretion. Vital information regarding Bose’s death may have put a certain nation or some nations at a tight spot which would not have been in the best of interest even for India.Think about it, if Subhas Bose was really a prisoner at Soviet Russia and he died in captivity, the release of such information would have certainly deter the relationship between India and Russia and the situation between these two nations would have been completely different to what it is now.

It may also be that there have been some internal factors which resulted to certain situations where it was important to keep the information regarding Netaji being alive or dead a secret or it was even necessary to propagate false information. We must not forget that many great leaders back then did not support the aggressive mindset of this great leader which caused him to resign from INC even though he had a strong backing. If the plane carrying Netaji had truly crashed and he was declared dead being unable to find his body, the news of he being alive would have resulted to extreme emotions of joy and exultation in India and it might have also turned around the political scenario completely at that time (remember, it had just been a little while since India’s independence). 

If Bose was really hiding either in China or in India, he was in disguise for a reason and he remained like that till his last breath (hypothetically). It is really intriguing that a national hero of such status needed to hide himself from his own people and probably fake his own death, and if it is true then the reason, whatever it may be is catastrophic for Indian history, if it is true then everything we know and anything we have learnt so far is a big lie and a mere friction. 

Whatever it is, there has always been certain mistrust between the government and the citizens of this nation over the information of Netaji’s death. All I know is that the people of this great nation has all the right to know the truth about their great leader, for the time being Netaji Subhas Bose will remain the man who never died.