Sudhakar Sharma - Daughter Of India - Subhash Chandra Bose Daughter Anita Bose Pfaff Interview Rare

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Produced And Directed By
Ram Avtar Chhoker

Written By
Sudhakar Sharma

Commentary
Shoma Banerjee

Publicity & Promotion Ideas
Maneesh Kaushik

Location
Germany

Year
2011

About Subhash Chandra Bose Daughter Anita Bose Pfaff

Anita Bose Pfaff (also Anita Bose-Pfaff, Anita B. Pfaff) (born 1942 in Vienna) is the daughter of Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose (Netaji) and his Austrian wife, Emilie Schenkl.

Anita Bose Pfaff, Bose's only child, was born in Vienna where her father visited in 1934 for medical treatment. During his stay Bose asked an Indian friend to locate an English-speaking secretary to help him with a book he was planning to author.

The friend, who ran an English conversation course, introduced him to Emilie Schenkl in June 1934. Emilie was the daughter of a prominent veterinary surgeon. They soon fell in love and married in 1942 in Bad Gastein as per Hindu customs to avoid Nazi conjugal law. Anita Bose was only a 4 weeks baby when her father last saw her, and she was only about two and three quarters (years old] when her father most likely died in an air-crash in what is now Taiwan -- in August 1945

Academic career

Anita was a Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Economics in the University of Augsburg. She wrote a biopic on her father titled "Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Germany". The book is a collection of the records shared by Professor Anita Pfaff as well as other known biographers and writers. The book depicts interesting facts about the life of Bose and his contribution to freedom struggle of India. First copy of the book titled Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Germany by Professor Anita B. Pfaff was given to the President of India Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 6 February 2013. The book was brought out by the Federation of Indo-German Societies in India. [3]
Marriage and Family

Anita, who was born in 1942, is married to Professor Martin Pfaff, formerly a German Social Democratic Party member of the Bundestag,

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