German automobile manufacturer Audi has been appointed to restore the four-door German Wanderer sedan (in picture), parked at his ancestral home here. File photoIt was in this car bearing number plate BLA 7169 that Netaji was driven from Kolkata to Gomoh in Jharkhand by his nephew Sisir Kumar Bose in January 1941. The car in which Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had made his ‘great escape’ from his ancestral house here in 1941 when he was under house arrest by the then British government, is being restored by his family. The car was last driven in 1971 again by Sisir Bose, son of Netaji’s elder brother Sarat Chandra Bose while shooting for a documentary of Films Division. NRB is run by Krishna Bose and her son Sugata and is located in Netaji Bhawan, which is the ancestral house of the Bose family.

Source: The Hindu September 07, 2016 13:41 UTC