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Dr Sisir Kumar Bose was an eminent pediatrician, legislator and freedom fighter of India. He was born in Calcutta on 2 February 1920 to barrister and Indian nationalist leader Sarat Chandra Bose and Bivabati Bose (nee Dey). In 1941, while a medical student in Calcutta he helped his uncle, the Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose escape from house arrest.^[1] 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.^[2] During the Quit India Movement in India launched by Mahatma Gandhi in 1942 Sisir 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 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.

After his release at the end of the Second World War Sisir completed his medical studies and received advanced training in pediatrics in London, Sheffield and Vienna. On his return to India he worked with pioneering Indian pediatrician Dr K C Chaudhuri who founded the first pediatric hospital in India, the Institute of Child Health in Calcutta, inaugurated by India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru 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). ^[3][4] Rising quickly to the top of his profession in India he became Director of the Institute of Child Health from 1972 for twenty years and then President till his death on 30 September 2000.

Sisir Kumar Bose was also Director and later Chairman of Netaji Research Bureau, Netaji Bhawan, 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 built up the museum and archives at Netaji Bhawan over several decades and created a respected 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^[5]. Sisir Kumar Bose edited or co-edited the complete works of Subhas Chandra Bose, published by Oxford University Press. He also edited and co-edited numerous other books on Subhas Chandra Bose, Sarat Chandra Bose and the Indian freedom movement, including Netaji and India's Freedom: Proceedings of the International Netaji Seminar 1973 (1975), Netaji: a Pictorial Biography (Ananda Publishers, 1975, 1995), The Voice of Sarat Chandra Bose (1979) and the collected works of Sarat Chandra Bose 1945-50 (I Warned My Countrymen, 1968). He co-authored a biography of Subhas Chandra Bose, A Beacon Across Asia, with Alexander Werth and S A Ayer (1973) and wrote Remembering My Father, a biography of Sarat Chandra Bose. His account of Subhas Bose's escape from India was published in Bengali by Ananda Publishers ('Mahanishkraman', 1975, 2000)) and in English as 'The Great Escape' (Netaji Research Bureau, 1974,1999). His account of the Bose family, 'Boshubari', was serialised for three years in Anandamela and published by Ananda Publishers in 1985.

From 1982 to 1987 Sisir served as a member of the legislative assembly of West Bengal for the Indian National Congress party, representing the Chowringhee constituency in Calcutta. From 1996 to 2004 his wife Krishna Bose became Member of Parliament for the Indian National Congress and later Trinamool Congress from the state. After his death the street in Calcutta adjacent to Netaji Bhawan, into which he turned when driving his uncle Subhas out of the house during his escape, was renamed Sisir Kumar Bose Sarani.

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