In search of a new ‘home’
Shahid Gazi looking at his 90-year old brother's picture and introducing him to his family. One of the author's of The Bengal Diaspora returned to show him his brother's picture. Shamsul Huq’s grandfather, a Pathan from Afghanistan and a cloth dealer, travelled all the way through India to Noakhali and, being enamoured with a Bengali girl, settled there. Huq’s father moved from Noakhali to Assam in search of a better livelihood. Shamsul Huq claims
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