The University Press Limited (UPL) will come up with an unfinished autobiography of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Monday.
The English version of "Ausamapta Atmajiboni" has been titled "The Unfinished Memoirs", according to a UPL media release issued on Saturday.
"Sheikh Mujib penned this invaluable document during his time in jail through 1967-69," the release said.
"In his memoirs," it said, "Bangabandhu describes the context of writing it, and then he takes us back to the beginning – his lineage, birth and childhood, days in school and college, and social and political involvements."
"The book progresses to recount the historical events the great leader experienced standing in the forefront – famine, communal riots in Kolkata and Bihar, partition, politics of Kolkata-centric State Muslim Student League and Muslim League...Pakistan central government's discriminatory attitude and the Agartala conspiracy," it said.
The book also has contents on all other integral aspects of Sheikh Mujib's life in and out of prison, his parents, wife and children, and kin, the release said.
The Penguin Books, India, and Oxford University Press, Pakistan had also collaborated with UPL to publish the book simultaneously in India and Pakistan, it said.
The books carry price tags of Tk 525 and Tk 1,200 for the Bengali and English editions, respectively. The deluxe editions would cost Tk 650 for Bengali and Tk 1,500 for English.
The Oxford University Press has also finalised an Urdu translation of The Unfinished Memoirs to be published in July.
Born in Tungipara village of Gopalganj district in 1920, Sheikh Mujib became the Father of the Nation, who fought the war for independence from the then Pakistan in 1971.
After the freedom, Sheikh Mujib became the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, their new country. During the Liberation War, he had been kept in jail in the then West Pakistan. He was made president of the wartime government named after him, the Mujibnagar Government.
On Aug 15 1975, some army personnel shot him dead along with his family members, except daughters Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana.
Hasina is the Prime Minister of Bangladesh now and she heads the Awami League party her father had headed.
The English version of "Ausamapta Atmajiboni" has been titled "The Unfinished Memoirs", according to a UPL media release issued on Saturday.
"Sheikh Mujib penned this invaluable document during his time in jail through 1967-69," the release said.
"In his memoirs," it said, "Bangabandhu describes the context of writing it, and then he takes us back to the beginning – his lineage, birth and childhood, days in school and college, and social and political involvements."
"The book progresses to recount the historical events the great leader experienced standing in the forefront – famine, communal riots in Kolkata and Bihar, partition, politics of Kolkata-centric State Muslim Student League and Muslim League...Pakistan central government's discriminatory attitude and the Agartala conspiracy," it said.
The book also has contents on all other integral aspects of Sheikh Mujib's life in and out of prison, his parents, wife and children, and kin, the release said.
The Penguin Books, India, and Oxford University Press, Pakistan had also collaborated with UPL to publish the book simultaneously in India and Pakistan, it said.
The books carry price tags of Tk 525 and Tk 1,200 for the Bengali and English editions, respectively. The deluxe editions would cost Tk 650 for Bengali and Tk 1,500 for English.
The Oxford University Press has also finalised an Urdu translation of The Unfinished Memoirs to be published in July.
Born in Tungipara village of Gopalganj district in 1920, Sheikh Mujib became the Father of the Nation, who fought the war for independence from the then Pakistan in 1971.
After the freedom, Sheikh Mujib became the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, their new country. During the Liberation War, he had been kept in jail in the then West Pakistan. He was made president of the wartime government named after him, the Mujibnagar Government.
On Aug 15 1975, some army personnel shot him dead along with his family members, except daughters Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana.
Hasina is the Prime Minister of Bangladesh now and she heads the Awami League party her father had headed.
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