Sheikh Rehana revisits memories with Bangabandhu

Bangabandhu’s younger daughter Shiekh Rehana yesterday shared her childhood memories with her father in interactions with children who visited the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum coinciding with his 98th birthday, reports BSS. She said Bangabandhu was deprived of the simple pleasures of parenthood like taking his children to school as most of the time he had to languish in jail “when we were minor children”.
“When I was young child like you, my father used to be in jail most of the times, fighting for the country,” she told the interaction organized by Center for Research and Information (CRI) marking his 97th birth anniversary at the Bangabandhu’s 32 Dhanmondi residence, now turned into a memorial museum.
She asked children who takes them to school while most of them replied that it was their father when Bangabandhu’s daughter commented “I was not lucky as you”.
“Most of the time I used to go alone, or my mother used to take me to school. In the exceptional times, when our father was not in jail, I used to urge him to take me to school,” Sheikh Rehana said. In those times, she said, Bangabandhu used to pick her up from school on his way back from work and “that used to make me as happy as if it was Eid”. “During holidays like Eid, when other children used to tell each other which shops they went with their fathers, that used to make me quite sad . . . once when he was at home during such a holiday, I forced him to take me to New Market”.
Bangabandhu took her to New Market and bought an ice cream and a new dress and on that evening “I was so happy that it felt like I was flying in space literally”.
Sheikh Rehana asked children to learn more about the great personalities like Bangabandhu to learn “how to help people, to sacrifice for people and how to stand beside those who can’t help themselves”. She also asked them to study “attentively” and take care of their health.
Rehana also recalled her days at this house in Dhanmondi Road 32 saying she was around three or four years old when her family came to this house. Bangabandhu’s children used to play basketball and badminton with him in the house whenever he was out of jail.
“Because he was so rarely around, and spent most of his time in jail, whenever he was home, we used to really enjoy talking to him, listening to his stories of jail, being fed by him and play with him,” Sheikh Rehana said. She asked the children whether they know about Bangabandhu’s historic speech of the March 7 and along with the children, she chanted “this time the struggle is for our emancipation, this time the struggle is for our independence”.
She asked children about Bangabandhu, such as where he was born, name of his parents. The children answered all these questions correctly.

 

Sheikh Rehana revisits memories with Bangabandhu

Bangabandhus younger daughter Shiekh Rehana yesterday shared her childhood memories with her father in interactions with children who visited the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum coinciding with his 98th birthday, reports BSS. She said Bangabandhu was deprived of the simple pleasures of parenthood like taking his children to school as most of the time he had to languish in jail when we were minor children. When I was young child like you, my father used to be in jail most of the times, fighting for the country, she told the interaction organized by Center for Research and Information (CRI) marking his 97th birth anniversary at the Bangabandhus 32 Dhanmondi residence, now turned into a memorial museum. She asked children who takes them to school while most of them replied that it was their father when Bangabandhus daughter commented I was not lucky as you. Most of the time I used to go alone, or my mother used to take me to school. In the exceptional times, when our father was not in jail, I used to urge him to take me to school, Sheikh Rehana said. In those times, she said, Bangabandhu used to pick her up from school on his way back from work and that used to make me as happy as if it was Eid. During holidays like Eid, when other children used to tell each other which shops they went with their fathers, that used to make me quite sad . . . once when he was at home during such a holiday, I forced him to take me to New Market. Bangabandhu took her to New Market and bought an ice cream and a new dress and on that evening I was so happy that it felt like I was flying in space literally. Sheikh Rehana asked children to learn more about the great personalities like Bangabandhu to learn how to help people, to sacrifice for people and how to stand beside those who cant help themselves. She also asked them to study attentively and take care of their health. Rehana also recalled her days at this house in Dhanmondi Road 32 saying she was around three or four years old when her family came to this house. Bangabandhus children used to play basketball and badminton with him in the house whenever he was out of jail. Because he was so rarely around, and spent most of his time in jail, whenever he was home, we used to really enjoy talking to him, listening to his stories of jail, being fed by him and play with him, Sheikh Rehana said. She asked the children whether they know about Bangabandhus historic speech of the March 7 and along with the children, she chanted this time the struggle is for our emancipation, this time the struggle is for our independence. She asked children about Bangabandhu, such as where he was born, name of his parents. The children answered all these questions correctly.