Did Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose any wrong by taking Japanese help in freedom struggle of India?
NO… At Japanese shrine, the Netaji is god Tokyo, July 30: At the Renkoji temple here, the Indians and many Japanese who come visiting know of only one god: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. In a small patch of green outside the Japanese-style shrine in Suginami residential district is a simple but elegant bust of Bose, who was undoubtedly one of the most popular products of India’s independence movement. After his reported death in a plane crash in Taiwan in 1945, an event still shrouded in mystery, his ashes were said to have been brought to the shrine. And over the decades, Renkoji temple has become a pilgrimage point for thousands. Every day, someone or the other — Indians or Japanese or both – make it to the shrine to have a glimpse of the grey colour bust of a bespectacled Bose, wearing his military cap, erected on a platform. Most visitors stand reverentially before the bust. Some bow their heads, as if praying to god. Close by, a rectangular black stone with Japanese inscription r
