kolkata netajis niece roma ray is ready to welcome any evidence that will solve the mystery regarding the disappearance and death of netaji she is none other than 86yearold roma ray the daughter of sarat bose who had travelled with her father to meet emilie schenkl when the family first met her in vienna in november 1948 roma was only 19 then when her father had mentioned about meeting someone special in vienna roma had innocently asked will we meet rangakakababu roma rays rangakakababu was none other than netaji but why would netajis niece expect to reunite with him at least three years after news of the taihoku crash in 1945 does it not indicate that that the bose family didnt completely accept the plane crash theory sitting in her middleton mansion flat roma says initially we were numb when we heard the crash theory since rangakakababu had escaped from kolkata then emerged in europe and subsequently resurfaced in south east asia it wasnt too unnatural for me to expect him to repeat the same during our vienna trip this was more of an involuntarily reaction of a 19yearold but neither bose nor emilie had given up the hope of netaji resurfacing on may 11 1949 in a letter to bose emilie had written we can only hope that our feelings may become reality and one day that your brother will return this is the only thing i am praying for as a teenager roma was not privy to this letter but today she says till her fathers death in 1950 he had believed that netaji was in red china baba started doubting the crash theory when habibur rahman netajis aide came home to meet him she says referring to a fourcornered charred watch supposedly belonging to netaji that habibur rahman had brought along we all knew that rangakakababu always wore a roundshaped watch netajis niece emphatically says at their hotel in prague before flying to vienna bose had told roma rangakakababu bey he never said biye korchhilen rangakakababu had got married we are going to meet his wife and daughter you need not elaborately discuss this on your return to india though we never knew about his wedding before 1948 my elder brother sisir bose was aware of it roma says waiting for the five members of the bose family at the vienna airport on that cold november night was a lady in a black overcoat she had looked at baba and said its he netaji only advanced in years then she handed over a letter saying ive been waiting for this day the letter written by netaji in bengali was addressed to his porom pujonio mejdada sarat bose referring to his wife and daughter rangakakababu had written that hed feel obliged if they showered a fraction of their love on them aunty emilie wept profusely while baba read the letter she says romas daughter piali ray says i think netaji had purposely written that letter in bengali because