preparation phase

these are list of items that was found in the room of the greatest of  sons of our country as reported by the committee but still, they couldn't not establish his identity or so they say "inconclusive" and hence this son died a lonely death and faithfully kept his promise to his beloved mother to remain in hiding for the rest of his life.


Newpapers/Magazines

    Reader's Digest
    Time
    The Pioneer
    Times of India
    Organiser
    Dainik Jagran
    Amrit Prabhat
    Aaj
    Probe India
    Onlooker
    The Illustrated Weekly of India
    Dharamyug
    Hindusthan Standard
    Joyshree
    Jugantar
    Anandabazar Patrika
    Indian Observer
    The Indian Express
    The Statesman
    Bartaman
    Blitz
    Swatantra Bharat

General books in English

    A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
    The Works of Charles Dickens: The Authentic Edition-1
    The Works of Charles Dickens: The Authentic Edition-3
    The Works of Charles Dickens: The Authentic Edition-4
    The Works of Charles Dickens: The Authentic Edition-5
    The Works of Charles Dickens: The Authentic Edition-15
    The Works of Charles Dickens: The Authentic Edition-18
    The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
    Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
    Bleak House by Charles Dickens
    Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
    The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
    Hard Times by Charles Dickens
    Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens
    Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
    Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
    American Notes by Charles Dickens
    Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens
    A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens
    Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
    The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens
    David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
    Cheiro's Book of Numbers
    Twentieth Century Dictionary
    Complete Works of William Shakespeare
    Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
    The Odyssey by Homer
    Carry on Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
    Right Ho Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
    The Inimitable Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
    The Bermuda Triangle by Charles Berlitz
    The Lessons of History by Will Durant and Ariel Durant
    Flying Saucers Farewell by George Adamski
    Life Beyond Death by Swami Abhedananda
    The Story of Civilization by Will and Durant Vol 1-10
    Celebrated Crimes translated by I. G. Burnham
    The Heart of Midlothian by Sir Walter Scott
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
    Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
    Richard II by William Shakespeare
    Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare
    The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare
    Othello by William Shakespeare
    Macbeth by William Shakespeare
    To Each is a Stranger: Agyaye (Translation)
    Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
    Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
    Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
    The Suppliants by Aeschylus
    Homer's Iliad (Translation by Richmond Lattimore)
    The Judge by Tara Shankar Banerjee (Translation)
    Useful Plants of India and Pakistan by Z. F. Dastur
    Medicinal Plants of India and Pakistan by Z F Dastur
    Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Aldous Huxley
    The Sacred Rome
    Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward FitzGerald)
    Flying Saucers Have Landed - Leslie & Adamski
    The World Eye by Lobson Rompad

Books on politics and related subjects

    Dissentient Report by Suresh Chandra Bose
    Jinnah and Gandhi by H. K. Majumdar
    International Military Tribunal for the Far East: Dissentient Judgement of Justice Radha Binod Pal
    Message of Subhas Chandra Bose: Suresh Chandra Bose
    Vivekananad's Influence on Subhas: Nanda Mukherjee
    Netaji Through German Lense: Nanda Mukherjee
    India Wins Freedom: Maulana Azad
    Netaji Ban Bandhu-Azad Hind Wa Bangladesh: Samar Guha
    The History of the Freedom Movement in India Vo1 1-3: R. C. Majumdar
    The Last Days of the British Raj by Leonard Mosley
    Moscow's Hand in India by Peter Sengar (Underlined with comments)
    Moscow's Shadow over West Bengal: Rajni Mukherjee
    Freedom and After: Ravindra Nath
    Jail Mein 30 Baras (30 years in prison): Trailokya Nath Chakrovarty
    Nehru's Fatal Friendship: Sita Ram Goel
    Distant Neighbour: Kuldip Nayyar
    India's China War by Neville Maxwell
    Charter of the United Nations
    Between the Lines: Kuldeep Nayyar
    India Critical Years: Kuldeep Nayyar
    Himalayan Blunder by Brigadier John Dalvi
    The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Part 1, 3 and 4

Photographs of Netaji and people close to him

    A photograph of Janki Nath Bose and Prabhawati Bose framed in glass
    A photograph framed in glass having a slip on which is written "father and mother"
    A picture showing a young and an old person. Lalita Bose identified the young person as her uncle Subhas
    A picture showing Pabitra Mohan Roy and his family
    A picture showing people performing the shradh ceremony of Leela Roy
    A picture showing Suresh Bose, former West Bengal Chief Minister Prafulla Chandra Sen and Samar Guha
    A picture showing Suresh Bose garlanding picture of Leela Roy
    A picture showing Trailokya Nath Chakrovarty garlanding a picture of Leela Roy
    A picture showing a big picture of Subhas Bose that has been garlanded
    A picture showing two rows of lamps. The caption says "deep sajja on the birthday of Netaji"
    A picture showing some people playing band. Caption says "Birthday of Netaji-1973 band party"
    A picture showing some girls blowing conchs. The caption says "Shanka Dhawani, Netaji Birthday"
    A picture showing some people, including Pabitra Mohna Roy, performing yagna Top

Collectibles on Subhas Bose death mystery

    A collection of newspapers and magazines discussing to the proceedings and findings of Kholsa Commission
    A file of papers on Khosla Commission dated July 1971. One of the documents is a five-page letter in which the Government of India has been requested to produce 12 documents
    Notarised oath paper given to Khosla Commission by Dwijendra Nath Bose, a nephew of Subhas Bose
    Invoice for Prof Samar Guha's book "Netaji: Dead or Alive"
    Original summons sent to Suresh Bose by Khosla Commission
    A news report in "Daily Monitor" of 30.5.70 titled 'Mary Taylor's sensational Confession' where a British woman speaks of her father who thought Subhas Bose to be alive
    Series of articles in "Anand Bazar Patrika" written by Barun Sen Gupta from 25 September to 22 October 1974. Titled "Was Taihoku plane crash planned?," the series refers to Leela Roy's visit to Neemsar to meet a hermit
    Bangla magazine "Amrita" containing an essay by Dwijendra Nath Bose on Netaji's disappearance
    A copy of "Times of India", Delhi, 26 October 1982 containing article "Soviet Scholars revise opinion of Netaji"
    A copy of "The India Observer" of 2 October 1964 containing article "Netaji in exile"
    A copy of "Swatantra Bharat" of 13 March 1978 containing report on claims of Samar Guha that Subhas Bose was alive
    Copies of "Jugantar" of 8 August 1977 and "Statesman" of 20 August 1977 containing reports on Transfer of Power volumes that had extracts of secret documents on Subhas Bose's death

Other objects

    Empire Corona Typewriter (Made in England)
    A broken ivory smoking pipe and pipe cleaners
    Gillette safety razor (Made in England)
    One lead pencil fitted with a torch
    Magnifying glass (Made in Switzerland)
    One Rolex wrist watch
    One Omega gold wrist watch
    One chronometer
    One large Tricolour
    A pair of 16X56 German binoculars
    Records of K. L. Saighal, Nazrul Geet, Bismillah Khan's shahnai, and Ravi Shankar's ragas
    Records of Netaji's voice issued by Netaji Research Bureau
    Two LP record of Qazi Nazrul Islam in the voice of Rabindra Nath Tagore
    Philips Super FM automatic frequency controlled transistor
    12 Hitachi compact cassettes
    National Panasonic tape recorder

One of many letters discovered in the Faizabad trunks says:

"Crores [many millions] of Indians have put their eyes upon you. One day the Lord will himself salvage the sorrow of the people, the evil will be destroyed and God will prevail. You are our God in human form."
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p for passion

I am today feeling  elated and high not that I am in some kind of influence but sometimes you get to get such a feeling when you are exposed to some instances of triumphs of human endeavor,that really takes  your tiredness out of the system  making you really happy.But the fun part is, this can be coming from anywhere and by-god I tell you it can come from any where.This kind of inspiration can strike you no matter what kind of life you are leading but yes probability of getting inspired gets increased when you know what kind of things inspires and motivates you and so you invariably gets attracted to  it.I get inspired when I meet person who are passionate about their work .Such people really enjoy what they are doing irrespective of the kind of work that they are doing which to common people might seem crazy to an extend. That person might seem to tread a path that is on the wrong side of the "saner" road which a person in normal circumstances is not expected to tread.These kinds of person sadly,are a rare breed nowadays.But on the brighter side,they hardly care in what kind of conditions they reside in or what kinds of constraints they are facing.All that they know is how to do what they like and somehow their entire mindset is structured around the concept of how to maximize their effort to devout their energy towards doing the work that they love doing.He/She can be anyone from any field ,be it a dancer or any other person of this art and culture field like a writer, poet,music instrument player.India has a rich tradition of such experts but sadly such gems and their art form is dying a slow death at the hands of the under-appreciated public who are busy solving their own problems creeping up in their daily chores.But this battle to protect their talent, their knowledge and its rich heritage attached is fiercely fought by those people who know the value of their expertise.I am sure such is the case with many other nations where due to this "monoculture laced consumerist" lifestyle  has in a way diluted their quality of life,but they would proclaim otherwise and argue with you to defend  the same with much vigor and valor.Only thing important in their life is to get the next big thing that their neighbors always have.I must say,this neighbors are always a step ahead of you irrespective of who you are.If its tv then they will have lcd,if you get lcd then they will have led,if you have led then they get hdtv and amazing system to go with it,next it would be threatre television with surround sound and the competition goes on.This is only peek with respect to TV as an example but if you see most of the things that you buy are only because of the neighbor has already bought it.Mind you,this neighbor is not a singular person or family,its the entire locality and yes I am being a bit classist in my approached here,but its intended to those kinds of people having such mindsets only.Sorry for that diversion,but justification being part of writing  blogs is to let out this pent up thought processes.Coming back to where I was,a wild life photographer can be as passionate about his work as can be an ethical journalist.But here comes the issue,if your passionate and dedicated work is hurting the plans of another then there is a clash of interest and in such cases in real life,its not who is correct who wins rather winner is decided by one who wields more power/clout  and money.So many of the passionate people initially joining jobs,services involving influential people with a zeal in mind to do good,to do their work diligently  collides head-on with  this great wall of power,corruption;where they are rudely shocked to wake up and take notice of the realities of life of how actually this world  functions.This lot then becomes disillusioned,dispassionate,disoriented,disinterested in their work and so the system looses another lot of bright minds dimmed by the realities of life ,to them its more like a vagaries of life but that's besides the point.How can a researcher in today's day and age produce unbiased uninfluenced top quality research if the very basis of its starting point starts on the wrong foot.Let me give an unlikely and imaginary (might be real,but you would never know) example,suppose UNEP who so vociferously supports for green technology,dangers of global warming etc etc funds an independent research whose results somehow point to a different viewpoint that contradicts the majority opinion,will such a report be allowed to publish??.If your still in confusion of whether they might be allowed or not  then think of all the green companies that exists specially in environment conscious area like the Europe.They would fight tooth and nail to defend their viewpoints and would use every resource they could resort to pressurize UNEP to disallow such a report to be put in public domain or disband or derecognize such a research group.This is so ,because their very existence may be threatened by such a report .Another example would be a minister who makes grand speeches but knows the real truth of their political party and despite knowing these dirty linens that are washed with utmost secrecy,he wouldn't bat an eyelid speaking exactly opposite of what is right because as I said before,their very existence depend on the success of the political party.A politician has not taken a vow to destroy its nation but has taken a vow to win election at whatever costs possible.So instead of blaming the politicians for all the miseries of common man,we must think about improving the institutional frameworks and inherent practices that allow for such mishaps to occur ( btw nowadays its so common that mishap is not an appropriate word,but its a mishap for a common man in other sense of the word).
Sorry ,almost forgot about why this writeup came about.
http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_nicklen_tales_of_ice_bound_wonderlands.html

J E A L O U S Y

I am a jealous person,I am jealous at those who are sure of themselves.Those who know what to do and how to do it and consequently when to do it.I get jealous for their surety of their work specially the "when" part.I mean ,how do you know that the work that you are doing at the moment is the best work suited for that moment,how can you be so sure that you have fully and succinctly utilized your time so that you do not regret at all for the later moment.This brings me to another set of people who I am jealous about,these are those who live their life without regret ,who might ( or not) contemplate on their past life and never keep a guilt factor within themselves that might in any way affect their future course of action.I mean does the contemplating part and subsequent guilt,happiness,sadness and hosts of other features etc make us human beings.Isn't it the case that,if you don't think about your past or about how others might feel about your behavior towards them makes us some thing that resembles the characteristics of being labelled a less of a human.I mean,without going into the compassion,altruism,love for humanity like feelings I am talking about basic thoughts,thought about  individual level about individuals.
     I believe there are times when we think we are being judged (whether is real or imaginary is immaterial) and act an act that is anything but natural .This in a way affects the act itself that we are doing, more so in a negative manner.Sometimes I wonder,whats the best way to lead a life.Is it like a martial arts expert who keeps on practicing his skills in the sacred shoulin temples and then achieves mastery revered by all or a odissi dancer who keeps on perfecting her movements to such insane levels,but to an normal individual without knowledge of its intricate movements fails to appreciate the volcano of  visual delight being thrown on him/her.Or a doctor who keeps on slogging hard in a hospital to save patients life but sometimes fails to do the same but still carry on operating on the next patients who might have had a lesser change of survival but somehow manages to pull off that patient.Or a social activist who leaves every comfort behind to fight for injustice against the system and in-turn affects his/her personal relationships or a upright politician/bureaucrat/journalist who might know how deep the "rabbit hole" goes and how dirty is this "rabbit hole" and instead of buckling down under pressure keeps on hammering down the mountain of systemic institutional failure that faces them.Or a greatly respected nobel prize winner who now thinks of themselves as belonging to this world not to any specific country,so their ideology is now to concentrate more on all of the worldly problems at his/her field of expertise instead of concentrating on any country as such or such a scholar who goes on searching for real truths of life through its research ,whose sole motto is to gift something precious to this human civilization which might be immensely beneficial or go on doing research just for the sake of academic excellence which might help advance human knowledge in total.

  If such is the thinking of some of us humans,then is the good upbringing of our off-spring and  taking care of our near and dear ones wrong???,if that is sometimes at the cost of others.Similar moral dilemma question came up at the recent "Dr.Savita" case where she lost her life due to pregnancy complications during operations as the country where she was operated at has laws that prohibits terminating a life of a  foetus ( it was said that they are a catholic country,does that implies that they are a killer country where they would if require kill a person in order to save the unborn foetus-I know this is a naive and immature  statement made for the context,but does that take away the fact that a healthy adult life was lost in the process of abiding a law with religious connotations)
  With this comes another set of jealous persons who believe in the concept of "God".If any untoward unforeseen unpleasant or bad experience happens or about to happen,they take solace from the fact that,"God" would sail us through this tough moments of life.This dependence to "God" is something that gives them powers to face that event howsoever unpleasant that incident might have been.If in any kind of trouble "God" please help me out!! is the thought process that runs the minds.I am jealous of such person,they seem to unearth some hidden energy and courage,strength with this "the God" concept and apply to withstand ,sail through their problem.
  I am engulfed in jealousy.