Legacy of a promising mayor
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.
Muri-Makhay-Pherey-Asha
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!
Annisul Huq as initiator of Shilpir Pashe Foundation
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
Annisul Huq a music connoisseur
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 called him Moi
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.
Tribute to Annisul Huq: Demise of a changemaker
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.
Of a dynamic city mayor, his dreams
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.
Annisul Huq: A potential unfulfilled
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
A tribute to Annisul Huq contribution to music
I first heard of Annisul Huq around 1981-82, courtesy of kind words of my dear friend, the physician and TV show maverick Dr Abdun Noor Tushar. Then a student of class ten, Tushar was assisting Annis in many of his, by the then wildly popular TV magazine shows and productions. Annis, on TV, appeared as a gregarious individual with a penchant for ear splitting laughter – in fact beating anyone else around by his sheer volume!
Annisul Huq – A Dreamer on a mission
Charming presenter, entrepreneur and the dynamic mayor of DCC, it seemed Annisul Huq had the Midas touch. His winning personality and can-do, must-do approach to life will be missed by all who knew him and by all those who have never met him. His tireless work on improving the city we live in and the cultural world we love touched more people than he probably imagined.
