Netaji Birthday Ceremony on 23rd January 2009

Netaji Oration 2009 was delivered by Ambassador Alessandro Quaroni on ‘The Kabul Connection : Subhas Cchandra Bose, Pietro Quaroni and Indo-Italian, Afghan relations’ on 23rd January 2009. Pramita Mallick, Sasha Ghoshal and ‘Baikali’ perform ed a special Netaji Birthday concert. Governor of West Bengal Gopal Krishna Gandhi presided.

Netaji Bhawan, Calcutta, where the museum, archives and library of Netaji Research Bureau are located, is the ancestral house of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose owned and managed by the Bureau. Netaji is regarded as a national hero in India and widely respected in the whole of Asia for his struggle and sacrifice for the liberation of India and all Asian peoples and the establishment of an international order based on justice, friendship and cooperation. The house is a national shrine and visited by thousands of Indians, many Asians and people from across the world all the year round. The Netaji Research Bureau, founded by Dr Sisir Kumar Bose in 1957, is an internationally renowned institute of history, politics and international relations. Its Netaji Museum is the finest museum on the Indian independence movement.