“If it is possible, I would like to,” replied Pfaff to queries if she would like to bring Netaji’s “ashes” back to the country of his birth. “It would be the perfect homecoming for him,” she said on the sidelines of a book launch on Netaji.

Mystery: A branch of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s family believe that his ashes are preserved in the Renkoji temple in Tokyo. File Pic