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This extremely rare Bose family photograph, taken in 1936 in Kurseong, was most kindly offered to the author by Dr Sisir Kumar Bose. Left to right: Amiya Nath Bose (elder brother of Sisir), Netaji, Sisir Kumar Bose (16-17 years old).

Sri Sisir Kumar Bose, the nephew of Subhas Chandra Bose, seated at his desk at Netaji Bhawan (the Netaji Research Bureau) in Calcutta, December 1996. The entire India must bow to Sisir Bose with most profound admiration and deepest gratitude for so successfully helping Netaji to escape from under the very nose of the British Government in 1939. Although a young man at the time, he was the supremely chosen instrument to save a most beloved son of Mother India. In the small hours of the morning, Sisir drove his uncle many, many miles away to a train station. The car he used, a German car ironically called a ‘Wanderer’, has been preserved at the Netaji Research Bureau.