Neatly brushed hair, dressed in bell-bottoms, paired with straight pointed collar shirts, and a bright, wide smile. Packed with entertaining contents and featuring the spontaneous, up-tempo personality of the anchor, Ontorale, a BTV show from the 80s, was a staple of national television during that time.
Thank you mayor Annisul Huq for showing us what a city father could do if he had the vision, capability and resolve to improve a city. Sad that you died too early and too suddenly. Tomorrow will be a year since you left us, while on the path to make your dream come true.
After assuming office in July 2015, the late mayor Annisul Huq only wanted a few years to change Dhaka city and we, the city dwellers, were keenly observing his ambitious plans and wondering if those plans were at all achievable. To our surprise and delight, he had materialised many of his plans that once seemed unrealistic to many.
Conversations end with half nibbled canapés, strewn all across the coffee tables signs of half hearted consumptions in a space where food matters the least and discourses the most of attempting expected, yet redundant discourses including grief and distress; somehow, condolences come in strangely familiar forms of…conveying what a man he was!
By the summer of 2016 Lucky Akhand's health had deteriorated to an extent that it became publicly known that his chance of surviving the relapse of cancer was impossible. The disease spread all across his body and his vital organs. He was admitted to the IPGMR
It was a billboard that I saw somewhere in Gulshan in 2015 which indicated citizens' aspirations to see Annisul Huq as Mayor of DNCC. I called up Rubana who confirmed the news and promptly volunteered to be a part of the campaign as and when it started. Yet in a couple of days when the media frenzy took over and
I always need a clean sheet to write on. I always prefer the backside of a calendar month to detail projects. But when it comes to life, no sheet or paper space has ever come to my rescue. I guess life, while it requires planning also plays out of a songbook that has a Composer who we can't keep track of or keep up with. His grand orchestra does not need to sync with ours and His tune plays on.
He was at his prime. Dynamic and full of energy, he was a man on a mission. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's surprising and insightful decision to nominate a nonparty man for the vital post of one of the two mayors of the country's capital turned out to be a brilliant one. Given the opportunity, he was determined to prove that he was a worthy choice.
He worked tirelessly and was planning to do more to realise his dream of making Dhaka a modern city, but death has halted that mission. The demise of Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq has also cast doubt on the completion of his unfinished tasks. Many of his colleagues and well-wishers were still struggling to come to terms with the death of such a dynamic man like him.
Annis had embarked upon his first wave of infrastructural improvements. A childhood friend of his calls him seeking his help for a cancer patient, the mother of an army officer. The terminally ill lady was in dire need of blood transfusion at regular intervals to maintain a proper platelet count. But with road
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