Kolkata

Nearly 85 years after a five-member medical mission of docs went to China, a brand new e book throws a brand new mild on the phenomenon and brings Indian students and Chinese diplomats on one platform.

During the launch of the e book titled Indian Medical Mission to China earlier this month authored by historian Amalendu De, Chinese Consul General in Kolkata Zha Liyou described the staff of five-member medical mission as “Chinese Generals from India” and “the bravest and heroic story across borders”.

In 1938 Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose joined arms to ship the five-member Indian medical mission to China, to battle aspect by aspect with the People’s Liberation Army in China’s battle for freedom. The e book offers particulars on how the 5 docs got here to assist the folks of China.

“The medical mission of five Indian doctors fought alongside the Chinese Communist Party and one of them Dr. Dwarakanath Kotnis died on Chinese soil and in combat. The Indian Medical Mission to this day remains etched in the memory of Chinese people. Translating and publishing this book had been a great experience,” Sunandan Roy Chowdhury Publisher, SAMPARK publishing home, Kolkata, stated.

Describing Dr Kotnis as a ‘great friend to the Chinese people’ and one in all best sons of India the Consul General stated that the ‘Chinese Edition’ of the e book is in course of.

The e book doesn’t solely take care of the sacrifice of Dr. Kotnis but in addition in regards to the contribution of different members of the staff significantly Bijoy Kumar Basu who was a part of the mission .Mrigendranath Gantait, who’s president of Dwarkanath Kotnis Memorial Committee, West Bengal, stated that after the India China border battle of 1962 when relations between the 2 international locations had hit the bottom, China had invited Bijoy Kumar Basu to study acupuncture, an historic observe of conventional Chinese medication.

The writer of the e book Amalendu De has drawn from the diaries of Dr. Gantait, a scholar of Dr Basu about how after the go to of Bijoy Kumar Basu to China there was a contemporary impetus in India China relations.

Dwarkanath Kotnis Memorial Committee, West Bengal organises yr lengthy actions within the metropolis which incorporates observing the dying of Dr. Kotnis on December 9 yearly. The physician from Maharashtra was solely 32 years previous on 9 December 1942, when he died in North China. A number of years after his dying in 1945 All India Kotnis Committee was arrange by Bijay Kumar Basu. Dr. Kotnis was immortalised in 1946 in V. Shantaram’s film Dr. Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani.

After it went defunct the Dwarkanath Kotnis Memorial Committee, West Bengal resurfaced in 1973. The writer of the e book Sunandan Roy Chowdhury identified that the Indian Medical Mission happened in 1938 with Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose becoming a member of arms to ship five-member the mission to battle aspect by aspect with the People’s Liberation Army in China’s battle for liberation. “The story and the book celebrates internationalism cherished by Rabindranath Tagore,” he stated.

The Chinese Consul General in Kolkata described the mission as a ‘fateful connection’ between two international locations and stated, “We will tell the story of Dr. Kotnis and Dr. Basu to deepen people to people cultural exchanges and India China friendship”.