Manik, Salam, Zahur
In our history of struggle for freedom, journalists have and will always remain the brightest of stars. All the three names mentioned above in the title paved the way to expose the ills of those days against mighty states power engaged to gag the voices of Bengali interests. And that they did with their pen and verbal utterances without any fear whatsoever must be remembered forever. No one in this country should have any doubts or reservations about the great role Manik Mia, Abdus Salam and Zahir Hossain played in our liberation of freedom against Pakistan. They all had equal standings, friendly relations and mutual understanding amongst themselves despite attempts to create confusion by others at times after the liberation. Recently after reading an article on the three great souls written by another great journalist, late Syed Nazimuddin Hashem, I feel compelled to write this letter to humbly suggest naming an avenue of Dhaka city as Manik, Salam, Zahur Avenue like it was done to immortalise three freedom fighters by naming ;"Binoy, Badal, Dinesh Bagh" in Kolkata . I am confident there should not be any serious differences of opinion among our political parties in this respect. Perhaps the existing Manik Mia Avenue can take the new name with due magnanimous consent of Late Mr. Manik Mia's family members. Surely they will realise the impact of such a move to immortalise the three great journalists of this soil in a much bigger way since they had the most cordial relationships and also its ultimate effect on uniting this divided nation once again!
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