Last week Ashish Ray, a grandnephew of Subhas Chandra Bose, suddenly decided to make his case for Netaji's death in Taiwan in August 1945. He launched a new website whose purpose, in his words, is "to chronicle the truth about what happened to Subhas Chandra Bose, based on 25 years of investigation and research into this subject".

Mr Ray has tried to marshal his arguments in favour of the theory that Bose died in a plane crash in 1945.

Mission Netaji refutes Mr Ray's claims with the help of supporting official documents which tell the full story, and punches big holes in his claims. more>>

The best and the bravest men and women of an enslaved nation hastened the demise of the mighty British empire by resisting them tooth and nail in the trenches of Bengal, UP, Bihar, Punjab, Odisha and Maharashtra, and moving beyond the borders of India, from England, USA and South East Asia. Crushed by the Raj,  they didn’t live to tell their story. Yet, we must, narrate their tales, again and again. For a nation that does not know its history, does not make one. It is also in the history of Indian freedom fight, or rather in the denial of the heroic revolutionaries their due, that the seeds of left movements in India would be sown. But, above and beyond, the history of freedom struggle in India is of greater import for the foundational conflicts it revealed between different understandings of India’s nationhood than the outcome itself, and the attribution of due credits per se. more>>