Bose alive? Nonsense -- daughter

Bose alive? Nonsense -- daughter
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

NEW DELHI, MARCH 8: Anita Bose, daughter of veteran freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, today described rumours about her father being sighted in some places as "nonsense" and said she found the air crash theory "convincing".

"Various theories abound about his being alive including sighting him in a Himalayan cave. All these are nonsense. The air crash theory is the most convincing of all. I do not believe he is alive as one rarely lives for 105 years," Anita said.

She was speaking to newsmen after receiving the first copy of Subhas -- A Political Biography

written by senior journalist Sitanshu Das.

Anita, who is married to a German and settled in Berlin, expressed hope that the Justice M K Mukherjee Commission appointed by the Vajpayee Government to unravel the mystery behind the late leader's death, would be able to find out the truth.

"The Commission is evaluating evidence and they are doing a good job," she said.

Asked whether she had any memories of her late father, who is believed to have died in a plane crash in Japan in 1945, Anita said, "I was just four weeks old when father left me and do not have any memories of him, whatever I know of him was from my mother."

An academic, Anita said she was looking forward to her second visit to her ancestral home in West Bengal, which has been converted into a museum and a library.