LATE night on February 23, 1952, a young student of Dhaka Medical College was awakened from his sleep in the middle of the night.

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On subsequent occasions, I found our discussions highly edifying. She once asked me if I had the habit of reading literary works beyond my syllabus and how much Bangla literature had I read till then.

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The early days of The Daily Star were also interesting times for Bangladesh. Back in 1991, the country was emerging from some sort of a istorical coma. Democracy was being re-established after the ill-fated experiment with one-party rule followed by two bouts of military dictatorship littered with coups and political murders. There was an air of freedom, a sense that liberalism had finally triumphed.

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