Subhash Chandra Bose was a freedom fighter loved by Indians and especially the people of Bengal, he was the chief architect of the Azad Hind Fauj and was involved with the Indian Freedom struggle. He was very active during World War two and even tried to raise an army that would fight and free India. He was the one with the legendary motto “You give me blood and I will give you freedom.”
Netaji’s death is shrouded in mystery and has been matter of debate discussion over the years. Many conspiracy theories have been floated for decades how he died and weather he was still alive. The official story was that the died in a plane crash when he set off for a journey to Tokyo Japan and that his plane crashed near Taipei, where he died in local hospitals form burns, he meets when the plane crashed. He was doused with plane fuel and as he got out of the plane his clothes caught fire, he was taken to the hospital but died of his wounds, He was also cremated there and his ashes sent to a temple in Tokyo.
Gumnami Baba
The lovers and followers of Beta ji say he did not die in their plane crash and came back to India where he lived as hermit a baba in the city of Ayodhya and his name was Gumnami Baba.
I along with a friend finally tracked down the tomb and grave of this mystical baba who has an uncanny resemblance with Netaji they look like long lost twins that’s how much their faces resemble.
There has been a popular Bengali film called Gumnami that explores this baba theory and other throes that refute that Netaji died in the plane crash. There are some who say that he was captured by the Russians and was tortured in concentration camps. It is said that he even attends Gandhi’s funeral.
Gumnami Baba it is said came from Nepal and lived in an ashram Ram Bhavan in Faizabad where he died in 1985. It is said that after his death many notes’ photographs, books and important maps were discovered that connect him to Netaji and many of his escapades. They are also important letters form important diplomats that were unearthed when Gumnami Baba died. His followers however called Gumnami Baba, Bhagwan ji that was how he was called. But after his death many people visit his tomb due to the theory that he was indeed the legendary freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose.
It was Nizamuddin, who was Netaji’s driver cum bodyguard who had first said that the great man survived the plane cash and has been living as a sage in Ayodhya, that is how the local media got a wind of all this.
There was however a report in the local newspaper Jan Morcha that Gumnami Baba was not Netaji in disguise but K D Upadhya the man who disappeared after murdering Pandit Braham Dev.
I managed to click myself right at the spot where Gumnami Baba’s tomb stands. Enjoy the pictures
