Dr Mallick's anniversary of death today

Today is the 16th death anniversary of Dr AR Mallick, an eminent educationist and the first technocrat finance minister of the country, says a press release.
Dr Mallick was professor of South Asian Regional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, in the early '60s, and the founding vice-chancellor of Chittagong University where he set up resistance against Pakistani occupation forces during the Liberation War.
He was president of the Liberation Council of Intelligentsia and Representing Bangladesh at the UNO in 1971.
He was the first education secretary, the first High Commissioner to India, concurrently ambassador to Nepal and Bhutan. He was also elected chairman of Asian Development Bank.
Bangla Academy has published “Dr. AR Mallick Sharak Grontho” comprising 32 articles by renowned personalities from home and abroad, along with 50 commemorative photographs, texts of his speeches, etc.
On this occasion, a discussion and milad mahfil will be held at RKB Mallick School/College at his village in Rajapur (Dhamrai), Dhaka today.