Netaji's remains should be brought back home: Daughter

London: Freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's remains should be brought back to India from Japan to give closure to the matter, his daughter Anita Bose Pfaff has said.

She was speaking here at the launch of a book "Laid to Rest" by journalist Ashis Ray which collates the findings of 11 different investigations and concludes that he died on August 18, 1945, in a plane crash in Taipei.

Many have refused to believe that Bose died in the plane crash. Ray's book lays out his investigations into the incident.

Bose-Pfaff said she understood why so many people - both relatives and admirers - had been reluctant to accept this tragic account of events, pointing out that the difficulties in communicating internationally at the time meant nobody could be immediately sure of the facts.

"People like mysteries," she added, "and my father was a romantic and tragic hero, and so somehow it was not so surprising".