Anuj Dhar

Who is Anuj Dhar?

Anuj Dhar is an Indian author and former journalist. Dhar has published several books on the death of Subhas Chandra Bose which occurred on 18 August 1945, when a Japanese plane carrying him crashed in Japanese-occupied Taiwan. Dhar claims in his books that there was no air crash and that Bose actually died in the 1980s after living as hermit monk in Faizabad. Dhar is also the founder-trustee of New Delhi based not for profit organisation Mission Netaji.

Dhar and Mission Netaji investigate the claims that Bose lived in the Uttar Pradesh state of India as a hermit till 1985. In 2005, the Taiwan government provided emails to Dhar that it has no records of a plane crash during the period of August 14 to October 25, 1945, at the old Matsuyama Airport.

The scholarly view is that Bose died in the air crash and that theories that he did not are incorrect, speculative, mythical, and possibly fabricated However, Mission Netaji claims that Dhar's research will prove that Bose actually escaped to the Soviet Union after the war.