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Removing the misgivings, if any

Tuesday, 26 August 2014


The writer of the  article titled 'Unforgettable Mosharraf Bhai', published in the August 20, 2014  issue of the Financial Express, has the following to say:
Late Mosharraf Hossain, a former lawmaker, during his life-time, was extremely generous in helping hundreds of needy people with his hard-earned income. Nobody having genuine needs had   returned empty-handed from either his house or office. It spoke well of his closeness to, and empathy with, his own family members who had risen to the occasion by making available the right kind of medicare at the right time when Mosharraf Bhai had fallen ill.
It was, however, a factual mistake to mention in the write-up that Moazzem Bhai,  Mosharraf Bhai’s younger brother, owns several shopping malls.
And the relations between Mosharraf Hossain and Zakiuddin Ahmed was one of the best this writer has so far witnessed  in partnership business. And the reference made in the article to their warm relations was mentioned to me by both 'Mosharraf Bhai' and 'Zaki Bhai' one day jokingly at the office of the erstwhile Barnali Advertisers in Gulistan decades ago.
I had penned the piece instantly, without being influenced by anybody, based on my decades-long association with 'Mosharraf-Zaki duo'.
All that were written were hard facts seen by and known to me except the erroneous reference to Moazzem Bhai's assets.  Once I used to spend three to four hours at their office at Gulistan daily.
Even Zakiuddin Ahmed, while talking to me on the day my article was published, highly appreciated the article and admired the spirit of the write-up saying with gratitude that not many people in the society recalled the good aspects of the past as I had done.

—Rahman Jahangir