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Prisoner of Yakutsk by Shreyas Bhave
The Subhash Chandra Bose Mystery
Final Chapter
8th to 10th February
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What exactly happened to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose?
• In 1945, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Leader of the INA leaves Singapore to take a series of flights, and dies in Taiwan after his plane crashes near Formosa. Or so it seems.
• In 1947, Mr Mrs Singh, an illustrious army couple, both veterans of the Indian National Army, are last seen in Delhi, and then never again.
• In 1949, the plane carrying the first deputy Prime Minister of India, Sardar Vallabhai Patel, mysteriously disappears for seven hours.
• In 2012, following the fall of WikiLeaks, a female hacker of the notorious X group is on the run as most wanted by everyone from Interpol to the KGB
• In 2015, the millionaire CEO of a Fortune 500 company suddenly resigns and vanishes from the public eye.
A set of seemingly unconnected disappearances emerge to be woven into a single fabric as the answer to one leads to another… In this riveting narrative, bestselling author Shreyas Bhave, takes the reader on a thrilling adventure to solve the greatest mystery the Indian nation has known.
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Famous persons do not disappear alone. There are others who travel or work with them, and the disappearances of these other people can be used to uncover the main truth. These allied disappearances are not widely known, hence there is a greater chance that clues pertaining to the disappearances are not lying in classified files.
This was exactly the principle Jay Rasbihari followed, though he wasn’t aware of it till the very end. He had not thought of the principle at all when he set out to discover what had actually happened to his ancestors, Major and Mrs. Singh, veterans of the Indian National Army. Major Anish Singh had been leader of X regiment, and his wife, Rupali Singh, had been one of the all-women Rani Jhansi Regiment of the INA.
There are records to show this couple lived in Dehra Doon after independence, until the birth of their first child. After that, they disappeared, adding to the list of missing persons in the country. As they were not celebrities, Jay found no trouble in obtaining documents about them. Surprisingly, he uncovered more documents than he expected, thus coming upon a paper trail. Anish and Rupali Singh had survived the fight for independence and had lived to be citizens of a free India. Most probably, they had been part of the teeming crowds at the Red Fort where Pandit Nehru gave his famous independence speech. It was the duty of an independent nation to find out what happened to this illustrious couple.
This was exactly the riddle Jay was trying to solve when he stumbled upon the lost trail of Netaji. He had no idea this was where he would end up when he began a simple search for his missing great-grandparents. It was only when he had dug sufficiently deep into their mystery that unforeseen connections began to emerge and the search for Anish and Rupali Singh converted into a search for India’s lost Netaji.
This was exactly the principle Jay Rasbihari followed, though he wasn’t aware of it till the very end. He had not thought of the principle at all when he set out to discover what had actually happened to his ancestors, Major and Mrs. Singh, veterans of the Indian National Army. Major Anish Singh had been leader of X regiment, and his wife, Rupali Singh, had been one of the all-women Rani Jhansi Regiment of the INA.
There are records to show this couple lived in Dehra Doon after independence, until the birth of their first child. After that, they disappeared, adding to the list of missing persons in the country. As they were not celebrities, Jay found no trouble in obtaining documents about them. Surprisingly, he uncovered more documents than he expected, thus coming upon a paper trail. Anish and Rupali Singh had survived the fight for independence and had lived to be citizens of a free India. Most probably, they had been part of the teeming crowds at the Red Fort where Pandit Nehru gave his famous independence speech. It was the duty of an independent nation to find out what happened to this illustrious couple.
This was exactly the riddle Jay was trying to solve when he stumbled upon the lost trail of Netaji. He had no idea this was where he would end up when he began a simple search for his missing great-grandparents. It was only when he had dug sufficiently deep into their mystery that unforeseen connections began to emerge and the search for Anish and Rupali Singh converted into a search for India’s lost Netaji.
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About the Author:
Shreyas Bhave's love for history since his childhood prompted him to write his take on the story of Asoka who was one of the towering figures in the history of India, which has been taken up as ‘The Asoka Trilogy’ by Leadstart Publishing. The first part of the trilogy called ‘The Prince of Patliputra’ has been published in January 2016 and the second part called 'Storm From Taxila' was published in 2018.
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