A book stall at Amar Ekushey Boi Mela bears a message expressing grief at the death of Sagar Sarwar, a news editor of private TV channel Maasranga Television, and his wife Meherun Runi, a senior reporter of ATN Bangla, yesterday. Inset, a visitor at the stall holds a book, Colonel Ke Ami Mone Rekhechi, which Sagar wrote and published last year. Photo: Palash Khan

Khandaker Sohel was unable to find something to console himself over the death of his former colleague Sagar Sarowar. Publisher of one of his books, Sohel thinks an unfulfilled desire will haunt him throughout his life.
“Sagar, days before the launching of the Amar Ekushey Boi Mela, asked me whether I would take his manuscript to publish another book. I thought he was joking and thus did not take it seriously,” Sohel told The Daily Star yesterday at his bookstall Bhashachitra on the fair premises.
“It will haunt me all my life since I could not publish his manuscript,” said a sobbing Sohel, formerly a co-worker of Sagar at the Bengali daily Jugantor.
Sohel published Sagar's 'Colonel Ke Ami Mone Rekhechhi'last year.
A news editor at the private TV channel Maasranga, Sagar, and his wife Meherun Runi, a senior reporter of ATN Bangla, were stabbed to death at their West Rajabazar residence in the city.