The Unfinished Memoirs

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The Unfinished Memoirs
First edition
AuthorSheikh Mujibur Rahman
ISBN
9789845061100
Followed byThe Prison Diaries 

The Unfinished Memoirs (Bengali: অসমাপ্ত আত্মজীবনী) is the autobiography by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Father of the nation of Bangladesh.

Background

Photograph of a page from The manuscript.

Sheikh Fazlul Haq Moni, the notebooks slid in oblivion and remained so until one of his relatives discovered four notebooks in a drawer of Sheikh Moni in 2004.[3]
By then, the notebooks' pages had become discolored and brittle.

The contents of the notebook were extracted by Sheikh Hasina, along with Sheikh Rehana and Baby Maudud. The compiled notes were published as a book on 12 June 2012 by The University Press Limited. The book was named by Rehana and prefaced by Hasina.[4] It has since been translated into fourteen languages. On 7 October 2020, a braille version of the book was released.[5]

Content

In his memoirs, Mujib portrayed vividly many aspects of his life in and out of prison. Mujib also narrated the beginning of his ancestry, birth and childhood, days in school and college, and social and political involvements.

Chaudhury Muhammad Ali, and Nurul Amin.[9]
The last part portrays the events accompanying the struggle for democratic rights in 1955.

Reception

The

Bangabandhu.[11] The Wire wrote that it portrayed the life of early Bangladesh as it portrayed the life of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.[12]

References

  1. ^ "The Unfinished Memoirs". Penguin Books India. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
  2. ^ "The Unfinished Memoirs". Penguin Books India. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
  3. ^ "Bangabandhu's autobiography launched". The Independent. Dhaka. 20 June 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
  4. ^ বঙ্গবন্ধুর ‘অসমাপ্ত আত্মজীবনী’ জাতিকে ইতিহাস বিকৃতি থেকে রক্ষা করেছে: প্রধানমন্ত্রী. Bangla Tribune (in Bengali). Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  5. ^ বঙ্গবন্ধুর অসমাপ্ত আত্মজীবনীর ব্রেইল সংস্করণের মোড়ক উন্মোচন. banglanews24.com (in Bengali). 7 October 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  6. ^ "Autobiography launches today". The Daily Star. Dhaka. 18 June 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
  7. ^ "Mujib's unfinished autobiography hits stands Monday". bdnews24.com. Dhaka. 17 June 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
  8. ^ "Autobiography of Mujibur handed over to Hasina". Gulf Times. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
  9. ^ "The Oxford Update July - September 2012" (PDF). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
  10. ^ "Review: The Unfinished Memoirs: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman". Hindustan Times. 2012-08-18. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  11. ^ "Insights from The Unfinished Memoirs". Prothom Alo. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  12. ^ "Lessons for Today's Bangladesh in the Unfinished Memoir of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman". The Wire. Retrieved 16 December 2022.

External links

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