Sisir Kumar Bose

Sisir Kumar Bose (2 February 1920 – 30 September 2000) was an Indian freedom fighter, pediatrician and legislator. He was the son of Indian nationalist leader Sarat Chandra Bose, nephew of Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose and husband of former Member of Parliament Krishna 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 He helped Subhas Bose plan his escape from his ancestral house on Elgin Road in Calcutta and drove him out of the house in secret up to Gomoh in the neighbouring state of Bihar, from where Subhas took a train to Peshawar. During the Quit India Movement in India launched by Mahatma Gandhi in 1942, Sisir Bose was badly injured in a police attack on a student protest and imprisoned in Presidency Jail in Calcutta and later interned at home in 1943. For assisting his uncle and continued involvement with the Indian independence movement, Sisir Bose was arrested again by the British colonial government and imprisoned in the Red Fort in Delhi, the Lahore Fort and Lyallpur Jail, including long periods in solitary confinement, until the end of the war. inaugurated in 1957. Sisir was Rockefeller Fellow at Harvard Medical School and the Children's Hospital in Boston and the first editor of Indian Pediatrics (1964–66). He became Director of the Institute of Child Health from 1972 for twenty years and then President until his death in 2000. located in the Bose family house on Elgin Road in Calcutta, from the 1950s to his death. The family house had been dedicated to the public by his father Sarat Chandra Bose in 1946 as a memorial to Subhas Chandra Bose. Sisir Bose built up the museum and archives at Netaji Bhawan over several decades and created an institute for history, politics and current affairs. The Wanderer car in which he drove his uncle Subhas out of their ancestral house on Elgin Road in Calcutta is displayed in the museum and was recently unveiled by the President of India after restoration.

Politics From 1982 to 1987 Bose served as a member of the legislative assembly of West Bengal for the Indian National Congress party, representing the Chowranghee constituency in Calcutta. Additionally, the Netaji Research Bureau hosts a lecture every year in his memory.