Emilie Schenkl (26 December 1910 – March 1996), an Austrian-born national, was the secretary of Subhas Chandra Bose, a leader in the Indian Independence Movement. She was married to Bose in 1937 in Bad Gastein, Austria or in 1941 or in 1942, in Berlin, Germany. Bose and Emilie Schenkl had a daughter, Anita Bose Pfaff (born 1942, in Vienna), who is a professor of economics in the University of Augsburg.

Subhash Chandra (born 30 November 1950) is a onetime rice exporter-turned media baron and Chairman of Essel Group, that launched India's satellite television revolution. The Zee chairman dropped out after standard 12. His pioneering channel Zee TV competes with, among others, Sony Entertainment Television and STAR Plus. Other interests include packaging, theme parks, lotteries and cinema multiplexes. He started the failed Indian Cricket League, a domestic Twenty20 cricket league intended as a challenge to the Board of Control for Cricket in India, the nation's governing body in the sport. In November 2009, he took over management responsibility of Daily News & Analysis (DNA), which features among the top 8 English dailies in India and is one of fastest growing English newspapers in the country.

Transnational Alternate Learning for Emancipation and Empowerment thorough Multimedia TALEEM Research Foundation was set up by Chandra as a literary, scientific and charitable society and trust in May 1996.

Anita Bose Pfaff (also Anita Bose-Pfaff, Anita B. Pfaff) (born 1942 in Vienna) is the daughter of Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose (Netaji) and his Austrian wife, Emilie Schenkl.

Anita Bose Pfaff, Netaji's only child, was born in Vienna where her father visited in 1934 for medical treatment. During his stay Netaji asked an Indian friend to locate an English-speaking secretary to help him with a book he was planning to author.

The friend, who ran an English conversation course, introduced him to Emilie Schenkl in June 1934. Emilie was the daughter of a prominent veterinary surgeon. They soon fell in love and married in December 1937 in Bad Gastein as per Hindu customs to avoid Nazi conjugal law.

Anita is a Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Economics in the University of Augsburg.

Anita, who was born in 1942, is married to Professor Martin Pfaff, formerly a German Green Party member of the Bundestag, the German parliament. They have three children: Peter Arun, Thomas Krishna and Maya Carina.