End this Nehru versus Netaji debate once and for all

Also read: What's stopping Modi sarkar from doing a DNA test on Netaji's 'ashes'?

Subhas Chandra Bose's daughter Dr Anita Bose Pfaff wants a DNA test to be carried out to establish whether the remains kept in a Japanese temple are her father's.

This writer and others in the pressure group "Mission Netaji" - as a result of whose, and the Bose family members' efforts, the process of the release of secret Netaji files has begun - are of the view that the ashes presently enshrined in the Renkoji temple in Tokyo are of a Japanese soldier named Ichiro Okura.

However, from the very start, we are all for a DNA test. The time to get it done is now. Our recommendation is that this must be carried out by the FBI.

If FBI's expertise could be sought in resolving death mysteries of Bhanwari Devi and Sunanda Pushkar, what prevents India from approaching the American agency over the Subhas Chandra Bose case?

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