THE secret of the locked vault of one of the India’s greatest scientists Jagdish Chandra Bose in his house in Jharkhand’s Giridhi still remains to be unravelled even 84 years after he passed away on November 23, 1937. The content of the vault has been a matter of speculation among the locals as well as intellectuals and leading scientists. Several discussions were held at the district administration level to open the vault, even a plan was made to invite former President of India A P J Abdul Kalam to Giridih for this purpose. But he could not come due to one or the other reason and the secret behind the safe is still unsolved.

 

November 30 is the birth anniversary of Jagdish Chandra Bose, who was born in 1858 in Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh) in then Bengal Presidency. Giridih, which was also then under the Bengal Presidency and had several relatives of Bose living there, was an area surrounded by forests and since Bose’s most important research had been on plants, he had a special attachment to the place.