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https://www.netajisubhasbose.org/death-controversy-1945-aircrash-the After reading Oi Mahamanab Ase, people will have no doubt as to who the great man was. He often meandered in the course of his conversations with the disciples in the deepest and most profound secrets of his afterlife. He delved into his past life occasionally, to reinforce who he was. How do we reconstruct what happened to him on or after 16th of August. Oi Mahamanab Ase gives a sketch. There was a second bomber, he says. Kimura was also in that. Who was this Kimura? There was one Lt. General Kimura who was proclaimed as a war criminal by the international court, surely he did not escape. The second bomber carried him to a place nearer to Saigon, and not to Taihoku as is widely believed. His adjutant (Habibur Rahman), according to him, was a perfect man as he obeyed his order till his death, never revealing even under the gravest provocation and torture, never, except couple of times. Once, to Sunil Krishna Gupta, a...

https://www.netajisubhasbose.org/death-controversy-1945-aircrash-the One of the key and profound statements of Bhagwanji in the book Oi Mahamanb Ase is that "I have undergone a complete Metamorphosis." In fact this is the theme taken by Anuj Dhar and Chandrachud Ghosh in their last chapter of the book Conundrum, Subhas Bose's Life After Death. They key point which Bhagwanji wanted to make is that one should not judge him by his utterances and professed ideologies thirty or forty years ago as he had been changed completely, through the experiences and the ordeals undergone by him. One proposition that the authors of the above book bring forward based on some of the anomalies observed by them is Bhagwanji's metamorphosis is also driven by PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Their hypothesis is that Bhagwanji underwent severe torture in Russian concentration camps and thereby lost his mental balance in the later stages of his life. Therefore he never came out in th...

A series of articles appeared in the Jayashree magazine by a certain penname called Charanik, which created some flutter in the later 1960s and 1970s. The writings were abstruse and cryptic and depicting the teachings of a certain spiritual person named Mahakaal who used to call himself a Mrito Bhoot or dead ghost. The narrations were based on journals and notes of the disciples of the aforementioned Mahakaal. Some of the intelligent mind however could ascertain the person behind Mahakaal, but the way the articles were written, they never gave away the names and the locations. Seasoned journalists like Barun Sengupta however sensed that there were more behind these articles and conjectured whether they pertained to Netaji. The articles only provided the activities, the viewpoints - both political and spiritual and some form of after life of a super human who was dead to the society. Since then, the articles have been republished by Jayashree in a book titled Oi Mahamanab Ase. The boo...

Swami Ashokananda - many people have not heard the name. Who is he, they may be asking. He incidentally was named as one of the best intellects of India by an Indian PM to the president of America in the 1950s. Swami Ashokananda was daring enough to attack Gandhiji and his ideals in 1930 in his editorials in Prabuddha Bharat when Gandhiji's popularity was in the zenith and his weird socialist ideals were lapped up by almost every leader true to his salt. Ashokananda ventured into a debate with Gandhiji on his assertions and emerged triumphant. But even his brother monks did not like it, so was the power of Gandhiji at that time. However how prophetic he was. Gandhian ideals were incompatible for India, he wanted the message of strength for India, not weakness of Ahimsa. Years later, he told ruefully to his disciple, "Gandhi was a holy man, but a stupid man. He had his pert hobby, Ahimsa and he put his hobby above his country's interest." He claimed himself to be a d...

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose is a very special name for any patriotic Indian. Any book on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose would attract interest, esp. if the book is titled as Life after Death of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. There are controversies surrounding his alleged disappearance. Government had set up a committee in 1956 which was headed by INA veteran Shah Nawaz Khan. The conclusion of that committee was the affirmation of the official version that Netaji had died in the 1945 plane crash. But Suresh Chandra Bose, the sejda of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, who was a part of the committee did not agree with its findings and submitted a Dissent report which pointed out many flaws with the committee’s findings. In 1970 a one man commission was set up under Justice G.D Khosla to probe Netaji’s death. The conclusion remained the same, that Netaji died in plane crash in 1945. The controversy thus remained dormant for a long time till 1985 September when an unknown Sadhu, called Gumnami Baba ...

There are certain views that are floating around in intellectual circles that Rabindranath Tagore was an anti Nationalist. I am not sure why Nationalism has become a dirty word with some people, esp. with the liberal elites and the media. Nationalism, which conveys deep sense of pride and respect for one's own country is now synonymous with war mongering, chest thumping and positioning one's own country as greater than the others. No harm in taking that position, in fact the dictionary meanings also convey the similar impression. The dictionary definition of Nationalism as per  https://www.merriam- webster.com/dictionary/ nationalism  - begins with "Loyalty and Devotion to Nation". To me that's important, even though the next few lines dilutes the main definition a little bit. Oxford dictionary defines Nationalistic as Having or expressing strong identification with one's own nation and vigorous support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or d...

The great poet shared a unique relationship with Ramakrishna. He made repeated demands to him that he be born as his son. Ramakrishna refused saying that his father was a pious brahmin. Girish, in a  drunken state abused him profusely for this refusal, but at times while abusing he prostrated on the dirty ground and made pranaam. When Ramakrishna visited his house the next day, Girish was dejected thinking about the colossal blunder that he did. But Sri Ramakrishna's lack of ego made him exclaim that Ramakrishna was nothing but God. That reinforced his belief. Sri Ramakrishna also told him that he would become purer day by day, people would be amazed by his transformation. Exactly that happened. In his later days people used to visit Girish just to hear about Sri Rmakrishna for hours. He was never tired of speaking about his guru. He used to take dip in Ganga during the Dasahara festival saying that he was not doing it to become pure and get absolved from his sins as others do. H...

Now we come to the most important part - the relationship between Girish and Sri Ramakrishna. The lion of the Bengali stage had a tremendous talent. Yet this talent was going haywire owing to the rebellious spirit and the tremendous suffering that the person underwent. This intellectual giant spared nobody in debate and intellectual discussions. His tremendous scholarship and intellect enabled him to have many arguments with eminent scholars of that age, including good natured banters with Swami Vivekananda. But to one person this lion was nothing but a rebellious child. And he turned the actor-director-producer's life to the right course just when he had reached the pinnacle of glory and was about to ruin himself. Sri Ramakrishna had a vision of a naked child holding a glass of wine before Girish had come to him. He always used to have a vision about the real nature of the people of his "inner circle". He saw Narendranath as an ancient sage of the divine realm of t...

This prolific actor director had produced many dramas in a span of thirty years. Some of them are masterpieces. When Girish used to write a play, he also used to act in multiple roles so that the characters became living to him. He could smell them, talk to them, hear them and even see them. Once Swami Brahmananda saw him in a pensive mood after writing Mirkasim. When asked the reason he said that the character would not leave him in peace. He was dreaming Mirkasim and could smell the odour of onion and garlic coming from the character's mouth. He wrote 28 songs in one night for one of his plays. He was untiring in his effort and was demanding as well. His actors and actresses would have to give their best, no compromise. For them Girish was a guru, a living god, who taught them everything by picking them up from the gutter. Aparesh Mukherjee, a noted actor who later married co actor Tinkadi Dasi was one of them. Girish's influence did not go away from Bengal stage anytime so...

Girish Ghosh was a Bohemian, in every sense. In his young days he destroyed a Durga idol that was mischievously put in his house by some people to embarrass the family. He chased an astrologer and a pretentious sannyasin away when he discovered their falsehoods. He flaunted his atheism to anybody and everybody. Nobody could argue with him as they were sure to get defeated by his tremendous intellectual acumen. But Girish also had a large heart. He collected a group of young boys and helped anybody who was in need - like takings the unwanted corpse for cremation, providing health care to the sick, providing financial help to the poor and needy and many such selfless activities. He first set up his theater, the National Theater, as an amateur actor and  produced Sadhabar Ekadashi, a satire written by Michael Madhusudan Datta, the famous poet, and Neeldarpan, based on the novel of the same name written by Dinabandhu Mitra against the brutal tyranny and oppression of the indigo plant...

From 1880 onward Girish was a sensation on the stage. Yet his life was empty. His personal tragedies clouded his judgement and he became a rebel in the truest sense. He was always a rebel. Now he worked against all social conventions and norms. He was addicted to drinking. It is not evident if he had sinned as he always claimed to have done. He had a propensity of overstating his sinners, by comparing himself to Jagai Madhai, the two ruffians who were converted by Sri Chaitanya. However Girish received the grace soon. In 1879 he had met Ramakrishna in a devotee's house, but he thought that Ramakrishna was full of pretension. He was not impressed. He had seen too much of hypocrisy in the name of religion to be confounded by it. He had some spiritual experiences but nevertheless he continued with his exploits on the stage. 1884 was a phenomenal year. In this year he composed his masterpiece that drew him closer to his guru - Chaitanya Leela - after the great saint Sri Chaitanya Mah...