An Indian academic who pursues studies on politics and international relations has predicted the future to call Bangladesh’s founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman “superman of eternal time”.
“The future will call him the superman of eternal time. And he will live in luminosity reminiscent of a bright star, in historic legends,” wrote Dr Shahnawaz Mantoo of India’s University of Kashmir as Bangladesh observes its founder’s birth centenary.
Shahnawaz, a young professor of political studies, said “Bangladesh was not built in a day” and “for centuries it existed as an idea and an ideal in the unfulfilled dream of the ancient heroes of Bengal who carried it to their graves”.
Shahnawaz, whose studies on Bangladesh’s Father of the Nation clearly turned him to be his great admirer, prompted him to describe Bangabandhu as “the essence of epic poetry and he is history”.
The young academic in his analysis tried to cross-section the persona and character of Bangabandhu and wrote “although simple at heart, Sheikh Mujib was a man of cool nerves and of great strength of mind” that developed his charismatic leadership to lead tens of millions of people to move on to the road to progress.
Shahnawaz remarked, at a crucial juncture, Bangabandhu’s life was cut short by an anti-liberation reactionary force on 15 August 1975 and the killing of its Father of the Nation “ended a most glorious chapter in the history of Bangladesh”.
“But they (killers) could not end the great leader’s finest legacy-the rejuvenated Bengali nation . . . he shows the path to the Bengali nation and his dreams are the basis of the existence of a nation,” he observed.❐
