Bangabandhu's Birthday: Shiekh Rehana revisits memories
Bangabandhu's younger daughter Shiekh Rehana yesterday shared her childhood memories with her father in interactions with children who visited the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum.
She said Bangabandhu was deprived of the simple pleasures of parenthood like taking his children to school as most of the time he had to languish in jail "when we were minor children".
"When I was a young child like you, my father used to be in jail most of the times, fighting for the country," she told the interaction organised by the Centre for Research and Information marking Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's 97th birth anniversary at his Dhanmondi 32 residence, now turned into a memorial museum.
"Most of the time I used to go alone, or my mother used to take me to school. In the exceptional times, when our father was not in jail, I used to urge him to take me to school," she said. “Because he was so rarely around, and spent most of his time in jail, whenever he was home, we used to really enjoy talking to him, listening to his stories of jail, being fed by him and play with him."
Rehana asked children to learn more about the great personalities like Bangabandhu to learn "how to help people, to sacrifice… and how to stand beside those who can't help themselves".
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