Book reviewDeborah Baker’s book The Last Englishmen (published in 2018) is, among other things, a shocking hatchet job of Hoseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy. The passages in the book detailing their explorations of the remote, icy wastes of the Karakoram range and of the glacier-bound Himalayas are brilliantly written. Hassan Shahid Suhrawardy, “one of Sudhin’s closest friends,” attended some of the adda sessions. Kaiser Haq, in his introduction to The Collected Poems of Shahid Suhrawardy, portrays a lively, engaging Shahid at the "Parichay adda". His grave, alongside that of Fazlul Huq and Nawab Salimullah, at the national mausoleum at Suhrawardy Udayan is testimony to that fact.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 12, 2019 12:45 UTC