Indian Spy for Subash Chandra Bose!?
Dr. Hiranmoy Ghoshal was a multi-talented bengali man who was mysteriously fired from the indian Foreign service during the reign of Jawaharlal Nehru. His daughter claims he worked as a spy for Netaji subhash chandra Bose.
Dr. Hiranmoy Ghoshal was born into a prominent bengali zamindar family. Raibahadur kali Saday Ghoshal's father was a high-ranking police officer in former Calcutta.
Panchanan Ghoshal, his cousin, was also an indian police officer who went on to become a pioneering crime fiction writer on the advice of Asia's first Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore.
The many-data-faceted Dr. Hiranmoy Ghoshal was the first known indian to set foot in Poland. He was a writer, journalist, polyglot, diplomat, and professor. Dr. Ghoshal was a multilingual genius who spoke 26 languages, the first indian authority on the Slavic group of languages, and the author of nine bengali and two english books.
He completed a PhD on Russian playwright Anton Chekhov and translated Russian novelist Nikolai Gogol into Bengali. Dr. Ghoshal was also likely the only indian to write a book about his firsthand experiences during World war II in Poland.
Despite his erudite personality, internationally recognised fame, and illustrious career as a scholar, Dr Ghoshal remains an obscure name not only in his home state of West Bengal, but also in his birth country of India.
It was World war II-ravaged poland that not only gave him a prestigious job as a professor in Warsaw University's Indology Department, but also significantly recognised his scholarship.