Netaji Birthday 23 January 2009 and Sarat Bose Lecture 2 September 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 23 January 2009. Governor of West Bengal Gopal Krishna Gandhi presided. The Sarat Bose Lecture 2009 was delivered on 2 September 2009 by Ambassador Ronen Sen on'India-United States Relations'. .....

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.