Anuj Dhar
Encyclopedia
Anuj Dhar is an India
n author
and journalist
. He is the founder trustee of the Delhi
based national non-profit trust Mission Netaji
which conducts research on the Indian freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
government that no plane crash involving Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had happened in or around Taihoku airport on or around August 18, 1945. The Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry
which probed into the disappearance of Bose, corroborated this finding. But, the India
n government rejected the findings of the commission. Ever since, Dhar and Mission Netaji have been fighting to bring out the truth, utilising the Right to Information Act
.
Dhar has also written a book on the Bose mystery, entitled Back from Dead: Inside the Subhas Bose Mystery. This book was later translated to Hindi, entitled Mrityu Se Vapsi: Netaji Ka Rahsya. He also wrote a book entitled CIA's Eye on South Asia, which is an analysis of declassified CIA records on India and its neighbours. In this book, Dhar narrates what he terms as India's biggest spy scandal. The scandal entails the story of a CIA mole who operated out of Indira Gandhi
's Cabinet and how the mole wrecked India's plan to annihilate Pakistan in 1971. Dhar is now using the Right To Information act to access classified Indian government information on the spy scandal.
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n author
Author
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and journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
. He is the founder trustee of the Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
based national non-profit trust Mission Netaji
Mission Netaji
Mission Netaji is a Delhi based Indian non-profit trust, conducting research on Indian freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Mission Netaji mainly looks into the circumstances of disappearance of Netaji. Mission Netaji runs the websites www.missionnetaji.org and www.subhaschandrabose.org...
which conducts research on the Indian freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
Career
Anuj Dhar was instrumental in earning valuable information from the TaiwanTaiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
government that no plane crash involving Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had happened in or around Taihoku airport on or around August 18, 1945. The Justice Mukherjee Commission of Inquiry
Mukherjee Commission
The Mukherjee Commission refers to the one-man board of Mr. Justice Manoj Mukherjee , a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India which was instituted in 1999 to enquire into the controversy surrounding the reported death of Subhas Chandra Bose in 1945....
which probed into the disappearance of Bose, corroborated this finding. But, the India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n government rejected the findings of the commission. Ever since, Dhar and Mission Netaji have been fighting to bring out the truth, utilising the Right to Information Act
Right to Information Act
The Right to Information Act 2005 is an Act of the Parliament of India "to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens." The Act applies to all States and Union Territories of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Jammu and Kashmir has its own act...
.
Dhar has also written a book on the Bose mystery, entitled Back from Dead: Inside the Subhas Bose Mystery. This book was later translated to Hindi, entitled Mrityu Se Vapsi: Netaji Ka Rahsya. He also wrote a book entitled CIA's Eye on South Asia, which is an analysis of declassified CIA records on India and its neighbours. In this book, Dhar narrates what he terms as India's biggest spy scandal. The scandal entails the story of a CIA mole who operated out of Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhara was an Indian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of India for three consecutive terms and a fourth term . She was assassinated by Sikh extremists...
's Cabinet and how the mole wrecked India's plan to annihilate Pakistan in 1971. Dhar is now using the Right To Information act to access classified Indian government information on the spy scandal.