Tazeen M. Murshid

The writer is author of The Sacred and the Secular: Bengal Muslim Discourses 1871-1977, OUP, 1995. She is also a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, New York. Email: tm2764@columbia.edu

Khan Sarwar Murshid

The Aesthete / A Personal View of Professor Khan Sarwar Murshid

How does a shy, frail home-schooled child become so eloquent, so erudite, so charming, so principled, and so upright? How did he come to be so noted for his use of language, his oratory in both Bangla and English, his style of dressing, bearing and manner of speaking - all the hallmarks of an aesthete?
3 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Khan Sarwar Murshid

A Personal View of Professor Khan Sarwar Murshid

How does a shy, frail home-schooled child become so eloquent, so erudite, so charming, so principled, and so upright? How did he come to be so noted for his use of language, his oratory in both Bangla and English, his style of dressing, bearing and manner of speaking - all the hallmarks of an aesthete?
3 July 2015, 18:00 PM