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The book Hasina was never allowed to read by her father!

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 24 2013 | 1:49 AM IST

It is an autobiography he wrote when he was lodged in Dhaka central jail by the authorities of erstwhile East Pakistan between 1967 and 1969.

It is a book Hasina, now Bangladesh's Prime Minister, decided to bring out when she was in the same jail as an Opposition leader for alleged graft during the army-backed caretaker government of Fakhruddin Ahmed (2007-09).

Thirty-five years after Mujib was assassinated in a military putsch on August 15, 1975, the book "Ashomapto Attojiboni" (Unfinished Autobiography) hit the book stores in India and Bangladesh earlier this week.

The 300-page book, based on his diary he had penned in jail, chronicles his upbringing, family, movements during his life as a student activist, riots in Kolkata and Bihar, the Partition, Muslim League politics in Kolkata, politics at the initial stage of Pakistan, East Pakistan and of Pakistan in general, formation of Awami League and the 1952 Language Movement that sowed the seeds of Bangladesh's freedom.

The book also contains some facsimile of his writings and some of his rare photographs. MORE

  

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First Published: Jun 22 2012 | 11:35 AM IST

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