The person on the left of the picture is Brigadier (Retd.) Abdul Qayyum Chowdhury. He was the first Bengali army officer to receive the Sword of Honor at the Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul. In 1971, he was visiting Germany as a senior officer (major or colonel) of the Pakistan Army. He had every opportunity to leave the party from Germany and join the war of liberation. However, Qayyum Chowdhury did not give up. When the country became independent, he continued in the Pakistan Army and retired in 1964. During the tenure of Pakistani General President Ziaul Haque, he started working in the Ministry of Information and Publicity in the capacity of Secretary. He later became known as an Islamic scholar, having mastered geopolitics, logic and Islam. He taught in the Department of Islamic Studies at various universities in Pakistan until he was diagnosed with cancer at the end of his life. He died in the United States from 1971 to 2013 and never returned to his native Bangladesh.
The person on the right side of the picture is Shahid Munir Chowdhury. All those who have studied in this country have read his writings on graves and bloody desert dramas. The most flexible keyboard layout for typewriters is designed by "Munir Optimum" and his shadow we still see on our used Bengali keyboards. He was a linguist and therefore endured imprisonment. His biggest identity is that he is one of the most popular professors of Dhaka University whose classes were attended by students from various departments. Many of them had to stand and take classes. In 1971, he was the Head of the Department and Dean of the Faculty of Arts. His teenage son joined the liberation war at that time. Towards the end of the war, on 14 December, al-Shams forces took him away from his home and later killed him.
The most amazing thing is that although these two are people of two poles, they were about two brothers. Their father was Khan Bahadur Abdul Halim Chowdhury, a British-era district magistrate of Noakhali. All of her 14 children are stand-up-famous-successful. The two famous ones are National Professor Kabir Chowdhury and famous actress Ferdousi Majumder.
Whether Qayyum Chowdhury will be remembered as a history traitor or as a true Pakistani clown depends on the point of view of the historian. Qayyum Chowdhury did not abandon the utopian ideology of Pakistan. To him, perhaps the oath taken during the commission, the motivation of his Punjabi wife was more important than the identity. In this case, he never returned to Bangladesh and showed strong faith and later succeeded there as well. Much like the father of our current Chakma king who was anti-independence and did not return to the country until his death, he held various important positions, including Pakistan's Minister for Minority Affairs. Personally I think those who believe in the ideology called Pakistan should stay there!
Did anyone know that the future of two people who spend their childhood at the same time, sharing the same dish-bowl-bed-blanket in the love of their parents in the same greenery would be so opposite? More bizarre human psychology in this bizarre world! Therefore, more than family, homeland, one's own race or nationality, responsibility, duty, conscience-lack of conscience, surroundings or lack of courage become a big controller in determining the future. And the definition of that sense of responsibility is also determined by one's position. There is no such thing as a constant truth or a constant position in this world of relativity because these maps, borders, visas-passports that tear the child of the earth are all as big as the smallness of a human being in relation to the great age!
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