I find a few claims regarding his actual fate very outlandish. How/Why would Nehru try to get him eliminated as many like to believe? Nehru himself was in prison till the end of WW2, and it wasn't until Lord Mountbatten assumed the Viceregal post that Nehru started finding favor with the British Regime. He was in no position to take any call on Netaji's fate in 1945.
Also, why would Netaji, who was a militant Nationalist, lead the rest of his life in India as a Sadhu/Sanyasi as another theory has us believe? Makes no sense whatsoever.
I still believe in the conventional theory about his death. I feel the legend behind his death has grown too strong for the Govt to convince the public that he died in a simple accident.This has led successive Governments to push for more time by constituting many silly committees. I'm afraid the public is in no mood to listen to anyone who says that Netaji died in a plane crash on that fateful day in 1945.
| Nobody accuses Mr.Nehru for the death of Netaji. Nehru might be anything but not a murderer. If somebody accuses him for the death of Netaji, God have mercy on him. But what must be investigated is his alleged role in covering up the mysterious disappearance of NSB. In 1978, the elderly Lord Mountbatten would receive a letter from the Indian High commission to London, accusing him of helping Nehru to cover up Bose's escape to Soviet Union. As eloquently Alex Von Tunzelmann describes in her book "perhaps the British did not want to pick up a quarrel with their erstwhile ally and Nehru did not want to have a rival."
| Netaji, living as a sadhu is just a speculation like many others floating around here and there with no solid circumstantial evidences. But again, he was not a natural fascist. So,NSB,living a life negating worldly affairs would not be a matter of surprise if somebody reads his books and life with patience and dedication. (He was an ardent reader of Swami Vivekananda)
| I would love to believe the conventional theories as it saves much of my reading time. But his closest ally Habibur's dubious testimony which kept changing frequently as the English weather and the GoI's hurried setting up of Shahnawaz commission, the person who had no credibility at all forces me to think again and again. The Mukherjee commission in the very recent past have quite disappointingly states the degree of resistance they faced from their home country. If an independent enquiry commission were let to work with free hand and came up in the end saying "yes, he died in plane crashes with this and this evidences" we wouldn't perhaps wasted a single second in this thread.