From his childhood days Sumeru had been a fan and admirer of Netaji. What disturbed him throughout was Netaji’s ‘disappearance’ just when he was about to see the fulfilment of his life’s mission. The people were faced with two rumours on the subject. One, the prevalent one, that of Netaji’s escape to Soviet Russia and getting liquidated by the communist regime: which Nehru knew about; and the other of Netaji turning into a recluse and living in India for thirty years before dying unsung.
Armed with his thirty-three years of experience in dealing with Central Government files and functioning at a higher Administrative Grade for several years before superannuation, Sumeru made an in-depth study of the Government files on Netaji declassified in the past two decades, to reach the truth. With his analytical approach of an architect, graduated from IIT, Kharagpur and study abroad, he has found out and serialised the flaws inherent in both the rumours on Netaji’s death.
This book serialises the ‘Russian theory’ and the next would be the ‘monk theory’.