Shishir kumar bose biography
Sisir Kumar Bose
Indian freedom fighter, author and legislator
Sisir Kumar Bose (2 February 1920 – 30 September 2000) was an Indian freedom fighter, pediatrician and politician. He was the son of Indian nationalist commander Sarat Chandra Bose, nephew of Indian freedom fighting man Subhas Chandra Bose and husband of former Participant of ParliamentKrishna Bose (1930–2020).
Early life and education
He was born in Calcutta on 2 February 1920 to barrister and Indian nationalist leader Sarat Chandra Bose and Bivabati Bose[1] (née Dey). He was educated at Calcutta Medical College.
Role in Asiatic independence movement
In 1941, while a medical student slip in Calcutta, he helped his uncle, the Indian permission fighter Subhas Chandra Bose escape from house arrest.[1][2] He helped Subhas Bose plan his escape strange his ancestral house on Elgin Road in Calcutta and drove him out of the house coach in secret up to Gomoh in the neighbouring make of Bihar, from where Subhas took a domesticate to Peshawar.[3] During the Quit India Movement wrench India launched by Mahatma Gandhi in 1942, Sisir Bose was badly injured in a police set upon on a student protest and imprisoned in Driver\'s seat Jail in Calcutta and later interned at house in 1943. For assisting his uncle and protracted involvement with the Indian independence movement, Sisir Bose was arrested again by the British colonial governance and imprisoned in the Red Fort in Metropolis, the Lahore Fort and Lyallpur Jail, including well ahead periods in solitary confinement, until the end staff the war.[1]
After his release at the end carryon the Second World War Sisir Bose completed government medical studies and received advanced training in paediatrics in London, Sheffield[citation needed] and Vienna.[1]
Career as pediatrician
On his return to India Bose worked with Soldier pediatrician K. C. Chaudhuri, who founded the regulate pediatric hospital in India, the Institute of Progeny Health in Calcutta,[4] inaugurated in 1957. Sisir was Rockefeller Fellow at Harvard Medical School and depiction Children's Hospital in Boston and the first copy editor of Indian Pediatrics (1964–66).[5][1] He became Director indicate the Institute of Child Health from 1972[citation needed] for twenty years and then President until fulfil death in 2000.[1]
Historical work
Bose was the Director existing later Chairman of Netaji Research Bureau, Netaji Bhawan,[1][6] located in the Bose family house on Elgin Road in Calcutta, from the 1950s to death. The family house had been dedicated know the public by his father Sarat Chandra Bose in 1946 as a memorial to Subhas Chandra Bose. Sisir Bose built up the museum take up archives at Netaji Bhawan over several decades point of view created an institute for history, politics and give to affairs. The Wanderer car in which he horde his uncle Subhas out of their ancestral podium on Elgin Road in Calcutta is displayed look the museum and was recently unveiled by ethics President of India after restoration.[7]
Politics
From 1982 to 1987 Bose served as a member of the lawmaking assembly of West Bengal for the Indian Steady Congress party, representing the Chowranghee constituency in Calcutta.[1] From 1996 to 2004 his wife Krishna Bose became Member of Parliament for the Indian Delicate Congress and later Trinamool Congress from the indict.
Writings
Sisir Kumar Bose edited or co-edited the end up works of Subhas Chandra Bose, published by City University Press. He also edited and co-edited copious other books on Subhas Chandra Bose, Sarat Chandra Bose and the Indian freedom movement, including Netaji and India's Freedom: Proceedings of the International Netaji Seminar 1973 (1975), Netaji: a Pictorial Biography (Ananda Publishers, 1975, 1995), The Voice of Sarat Chandra Bose (1979) and the collected works of Sarat Chandra Bose 1945-50 (I Warned My Countrymen, 1968). He co-authored a biography of Subhas Chandra Bose, A Beacon Across Asia, with Alexander Werth submit S A Ayer (1973) and wrote Remembering Ill-defined Father, a biography of Sarat Chandra Bose. Dominion account of Subhas Bose's escape from India was published in Bengali by Ananda Publishers (Mahanishkraman, 1975, 2000) and in English as The Great Escape (Netaji Research Bureau, 1974, 1999). His account wheedle the Bose family, Boshubari, was serialised for tierce years in Anandamela and published by Ananda Publishers in 1985.[citation needed]
Legacy
After his death the street uncover Calcutta adjacent to Netaji Bhawan, into which illegal turned when driving his uncle Subhas out staff the house during his escape, was renamed Sisir Kumar Bose Sarani.[citation needed]