Sisir Kumar Bose
Indian author
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 (née Dey). He was educated at Calcutta Medical College.
Role in Indian independence movement
In 1941, while a medical student in Calcutta, he helped his uncle, the Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose escape from house arrest. 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.
After his release at the end of the Second World War Sisir Bose completed his medical studies and received advanced training in pediatrics in London, Sheffield and Vienna.
Career as pediatrician
On his return to India Bose worked with Indian pediatrician K. C. Chaudhuri, who founded the first pediatric hospital in India, the Institute of Child Health in Calcutta, inaugurated in 1957.
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