The greatest Bangladeshi

The BBC recently carried out a series of programmes and conducted a poll to decide the greatest Briton of all time, which was won by Winston Churchill. This idea has really caught on around the world now and the Germans, South Africans and Russians, amongst others are carrying out similar activities as well. I think a poll on the greatest Bangladeshi would be quite interesting, even though we are not even 33 years old yet. Maybe including figures from the pre-independence era would make it more challenging. I think The Daily Star would be the worthy party to undertake this task because they are the entity in the Bangladesh media today, including all newspapers, magazines and television channels. Maybe, a series of special supplement profiles each week on some of the great figures, culminating in the results of a poll being announced an say an Independence Day or Victory Day, would be quite well received by the public I think. AK Fazlul Huq, Bangabandhu, Suhrawardy, Bhashani, Zia-ur-Rahman are some of the great figures that spring to mind.