kendrapada the family members of fakir hazzari sattar a friend and classmate of netaji subash chandra bose regret the close relationship shared between the two has never been highlighted in 1910 the freedom fighter spent about two weeks in his house in korei village in jajpur to treat villagers who were suffering from cholera subash chandra brought homoeopathy medicines lanterns two muguni glasses and other items from cuttack to treat the patients the two studied in ravenshaw i learnt from my father that in the 1910s my grandfather accompanied netaji when he was treating cholera patients this was his first social work netaji brought boxes of bleaching powder and medicines subash chandra and some students including my grandfather took pains to convince the ignorant villagers that cholera was curable contrary to the perception that those affected were at the mercy of the village deity netaji stayed in our house for two weeks netaji also visited our house many times during his schooldays in cuttack claimed zakir hussein hazzari each year hundreds of villagers pay rich tribute to subash chandra by visiting our house on netajis birth anniversary on monday many people including schoolchildren thronged the room where subash chandra spent a few days and garlanded his photo we have preserved the tank where he had bathed my grandfather had also attended the tripuri congress session where netaji was elected president of the congress party said hazzari my father abdul sattar hazzari donated the muguni glass and lantern which subash chandra had used to the museum of mohammad mustaque a lawyer in kendrapada a few years back he also donated the homoeopath box to the netaji museum in cuttack added hazzari after the sudden disappearance of netaji my grandfather like millions of indians hoped subash chandra would be alive my grandfather died in 1970 though my grandfather had gone to jail many times during the independence movement he refused to receive the freedom fighter pension he had also attended the kolkata congress of the congress party in 1928 where motilal nehru was elected president of the indian national congress during his stay in kolkata he met netaji and also visited netajis house sadly subash chandras links with our family and korei are yet to be documented rued zakir