Introduction:
Tajuddin Ahmed, 46.
Prime Minister, a lawyer who has been a chief organizer in the Awami League
since its founding in 1949. He is an expert in economics and is considered one
of the party's leading intellectuals.
Monday, Dec. 20,
1971. TIME Magazine
Bangladesh: Out of
War, a Nation Is Born
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| Handwriting of Tajuddin Ahmad |
― This is how the
TIME Magazine described Tajuddin Ahmad(1925 - 1975) who was the first Prime
Minister of Bangladesh and served the country during its liberation war in
1971. In his younger age he used to keep diaries in English, not because of any
political reason but to write down his daily works and personal things. He
regularly kept it from 1946 to 1956. Few of those diaries survived the
calamities of the war. The following is his two days entry from the diary of
1947-1948. This shows his thoughts and philosophy about his one-time political
rival Mr. M. K. Gandhi, after the Congressman was shot dead in Delhi. It has to
be remembered that when Tajuddin Ahmad is writing this, he is a Bengali Muslim
youth of 22 years and a full time political worker of Muslim League. Moreover,
Indian subcontinent has just got independence from
British imperialism.
