Last year, he had written a book on Bhagat Ram Talwar, who had accompanied Subhas on his perilous eight-week journey from Peshawar to Kabul in 1941. Sunday's lecture was based on the book on Talwar - Silver: The Spy Who Fooled the Nazis.
"The lecture was a unique personal testimony as only Bhagat Ram knew the story of those eight weeks," said Sumantra Bose, a professor at the London School of Economics and grandnephew of Netaji. Harvard professor Sugata Bose, elder brother of Sumatra, was present on the occasion.
Their mother Krishna Bose chaired the programme. Sisir Kumar Bose, the father of Sugata and Sumantra, had driven Netaji out of their Elgin Road house during his Great Escape in 1941. Picture by Anup Bhattacharya
