Bangabandhu: Friend of Bengal

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920-1975) is the architect of Bangladesh. Bangladesh was not built in a day. 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. Bangabandhu, who inherited this legacy, reared and nourished the dream into a strong and abiding passion and gave the passion a shape, that is, the map of Bangladesh, which was engraved on his heart. He had a talent for turning disasters into triumphs, which enabled him many a time to borrow life from death in order to stake it again and again for the people's cause. This talent or moral strength emanate from his enduring loves for the people and from his abiding faith in them. So he was a confirmed democrat, a benign socialist, a liberal secularist, an uncompromising nationalist, a humanist and lover of peace. An Era of Reconstruction and Institution-building Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, founding father of Bangladesh, was in power only for three-and-a-half year. The anti -independence and anti-national forces that seized power after his brutal killing on 15 August, 1975. Mujib is really Bangabandhu, friend of Bangladesh.