Calcutta, 24 January 2023 (GNP): Anita Bose Pfaff, the daughter of the Indian legendary freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose alias Netaji, said that Netaji wanted an ideal independent state of India where all men and women would have full access to all opportunities required for their personal development and through them, the realization of an ideal developed egalitarian Indian state for them.
The best tribute that any Indian and South Asian, in general, could pay to Netaji is the practice and work for his ideals and beliefs both in their life and polity.
She said that Netaji believed in religious and national harmony with no space for race, gender, or color discrimination.
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Anita Bose Pfaff, an economist, and professor at the University of Augsburg, is the lone daughter of Subhash Chandra Bose and his Austrian wife, Emile Schenkl, She was only four months old when Netaji went to Southeast Asia to fight against the British army there in support of Germans and through them for the liberation of British India in Second world war.
Subhash Chandra Bose, the Netaji, a Hindi word meaning ‘the respected leader ‘, died in a mysterious plane crash on 18 August 1945 in Formosa (present-day Taiwan).
Professor Bose Pfaff has always stressed to all Indian governments that the remains of the Netaji should be brought back to India, for which he struggled, fought, and sacrificed his life, from Tokyo’s Renko-ji Temple.
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It was customary for all the visiting Indian dignitaries to visit this purported last resting peace of Netaji during their visit to Japan. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru first visited this Temple in 1957. From then onward almost all Indian officials and dignitaries have visited this place except the incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Speaking virtually at a conference at Calcutta University on the 126th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Anita Bose expressed her concern over the rising tide of extremism and bigotry in the Indian society once known for its secularism and tolerance. She implored that the survival and prosperity of this region are solely footed in the principles of secularism and egalitarianism for which Netaji and other founding figures of India believed.