The documents, set to be released in a phased manner by UK-based independent journalist and Bose’s grandnephew Ashis Ray
London: A new set of documents set to shed light on the last days of Subhas Chandra Bose and his 70-year- old death mystery has been released here that include parts of classified correspondence between the Indian and Russian governments on the whereabouts of Netaji.
The documents, set to be released in a phased manner by UK-based independent journalist and Bose’s grandnephew Ashis Ray, debunks the popular notion that Bose entered into Soviet Union in 1945, the year of his death as per records, and comes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposed visit to Moscow later this month.
It includes material Ray claims to have collected in Taiwan, Japan, Pakistan, the National Archives in Britain and the British Library.
The first set of documents released this week claims to show two official exchanges between the Indian Embassy in Moscow and the Russian foreign ministry.
The first dated September 16, 1991, requests the Russian government to share “any material that sheds light on the fate of Netaji.”
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