১৯৯৭-১৯৯৮ সালে পি·এন· হাকসারের লেখা কয়েকটি চিঠি

                                                                                Phone : 4673545, 6886149
P. N. HAKSAR                                                           4/9, SHANTINIKETAN
NEW DELHI- 110 021
July 14, 1997

Dearest Bakul,
The memory of your two visits to my home still remains with me. I was hoping to see you in Dhaka last year, but it was not to be.
I was very deeply, deeply touched when Abdus Samad Saheb insisted on visiting me in my home Delhi when he first came here in his capacity as the Foreign Minister in the Government led by Sheikh Hasinaji as the Prime Minister. When she assumed the office after such a long and courageous struggle, I wrote to her a letter. Naturally, I did not expect her to reply, but I am anxiously to know only whether she received it or not.
All the heros of Bangladesh liberation have strutted about on the stage of history and now the curtain has fallen. We can now contemplate the true historical reality when a character called Monaem Sarker acted the part of Bakul.
Are you planning to visit Delhi in the near future? Please do come. I am going to be 84 years old which is 25 years more than the average expectation of life in India.
It breaks my heart when I hear the people of Bangladesh suffer during monsoons, typhoons and cyclones.
Please do convey my warmest regards and best wishes to Sheikh Hasinaji when you meet her as well as to Abdus Samad Saheb.
With my blessings and love.
Yours affectionately,

(P. N. Haksar)
Mr. Monaem Sarker
23 Chamelibagh
Dhaka-1217, BANGLADESH.

Phone : 4673545, 6886149

P. N. HAKSAR                                                                                                         4/9, SHANTINIKETAN
NEW DELHI- 110 021
August 28, 1997

Dearest Bakul,
Your letter of July 29 touched me deeply. It was saturated with love, friendship and memories of the past. I could not write to you immediately because towards the end of July and early August, I was being subjected to various kinds of tortures by doctors. I have, if I may say so with great respect to the medical profession, so far survived their investigations of all sorts. And, in a few days time, I could claim that out of 100 years of this century, 84 years are covered by my life. I could have of course written to you so that my letter reaches you before your impending departure for Moscow, London and other European countries. But my Secretary went away on leave and resumed his duty on August 25 by when you would have left for your trips abroad.
Russia is a classical example of my long held conviction that human beings in their collectivity which is called ‘Nation’ do not live, survive and prosper through science, technology and economics alone. The break up of Pakistan in 1971 and the emergence of Bangladesh and its survival also establishes the validity of my conviction. Words like justice, equity, equality, liberty, love, compassion, tolerance, morality etc. cannot be explained in terms of science and technology or even in economic terms. However, this does not mean irrelevance of food, clean water, and clean air for the body as well as education and culture for the humankind.
We have also to build institutions. The Soviet Union built no institutions except the Party, the Central Committee and the Polit Bureau. I had once taken the liberty of mentioning to Bangabandhu that Bangladesh needed building institutions which go with the establishment of a Nation State which is working within the framework of democracy.
It is indeed a very great gift to me that the story of my childhood and boyhood is being translated and published in Bangladesh. I do not know what copyright laws exist in Bangladesh. As you will notice from the English edition of the book published by the Oxford University Press, the copyright is shown to vest in the publisher. The book was first published in 1991 and the publisher has now informed me that the copy right now vests in me. So, the publisher in Bangladesh need not worry about the question of copyright.
I have noted with interest that you propose setting up a research foundation and that you have in mind organising an International Seminar some time in December. Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to visit you and other friends in Bangladesh. However, as for delivering a Kewnote Address, I should like to acquaint myself with details of Bangladesh’s economy, development strategy, foreign trade etc. etc. We back in 1972 Bangabandhu had set up some sort of a planning group. I wonder whether Bangladesh has a Planning Commission? Perhaps we could discuss these matters when you visit India, as you have stated in your letter, in November this year. I devoutly hope and pray that you will be able to come. I am eagerly looking forward to you visit.
With lots of love and blessings,
Yours affectionately,

(P. N. Haksar)
Mr. Monaem Sarker
23 Chamelibagh
Dhaka-1217
Bangladesh.

Phone : 4673545, 6886149
P. N. HAKSAR                                                                                                         4/9, SHANTINIKETAN
NEW DELHI- 110 021

February 25, 1998

My dear Monaem,
Your registered letter of February 18, 1998 reached me only yesterday. i. e. February 24, 1998. I am therefore taking the earliest opportunity to respond to your most kind and gracious invitation to me to be a Special Guest on the sacred occasion of Bangabandhu’s 78th Birthday and the 27th anniversary of the emergence of Bangladesh as a Sovereign Independent State. I hasten to convey my acceptance of the invitation with deep sense of gratitude. I am also grateful to you for your offer to take care of my air passage and provide me with your hospitality. I am proceeding on the assumption that the arrangements for my air travel would be made through the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi.
I have made enquiries and I am told that there is a direct flight from Delhi to Dhaka by BOAC on all days except Tuesdays and Saturdays. Having regard to my commitments in Delhi, I can leave for Dhaka by the BOAC flight on Wed, March 18, 1998 reaching there that very evening. I should like to pay my respects by making a courtesy call on Prime Minister as well as the Foreign Minister. I should also like to call on Begum Tajuddin who, I understand, is not keeping too well. Naturally, I should like to meet Dr. Kamal Hossain, Dr. Rehman Sobhan as well as Moidul Hassan.
As I must be back in Delhi by the 22nd of March which is a Sunday, my return flight may be booked on that date by BOAC flight which, I believe, leaves Dhaka a round 9.00 p. m.
I hope I am not putting too much of burden on you for making all the arrangements. But you know that I am no more young and I do not possess eye sight.
It was really lovely to meet you when you last visited Delhi and gave me that beautiful gift of Bangladesh shawl.
As I am anxiety prone, I would be deeply grateful to you if you could send me an urgent message on receipt of this letter and let me know the programme. Having regard to my dates of arrival and departure, and the two days programme there, I will be totally free on the 19th and 22nd of March which could be used for meeting some friends.

With my blessings and affectionate regards,
Yours affectionately,

(P. N. Haksar)

Mr. Monaem Sarker
Director General
Bangladesh Foundation for Development Research
23 Chamelibagh, Dhaka-1217
Bangladesh

                                                                                                                              Phone : 4673545, 6886149
P. N. HAKSAR                                                                                                         4/9, SHANTINIKETAN
NEW DELHI- 110 021
March 18, 1998

Dearest Monaem,
Today is the 18th of March, 1998. On this day, I should be air-borne and moving towards Dhaka and stepping on the sacred soil of Bangladesh. I was so full of excitement of visiting Dhaka after a I apse of more than ¼ of a century. You had made arrangements for my visit with great love and care. But alas!, I find myself grounded in 4/9 Shanti Niketan. I hope that our High Commissioner in Dhaka has explained to you my painful predicament.
Friends of Bangladesh had organized a public meeting yesterday on the occasion of Bangabandhu’s 78th birthday. I could not even attend that. I hope that you will understand the depth of my anguish.
With my blessings and best wishes to you,
Yours affectionately,

(P. N. Haksar)
Mr. Monaem Sarker
Director General
Bangladesh Foundation for Development Research
23 Chamelibagh, Dhaka-1217, Bangladesh

Phone : 4673545, 6886149
P. N. HAKSAR                                                                                                         4/9, SHANTINIKETAN
NEW DELHI- 110 021
April 13, 1998
Dearest Monaem,
I have your letter of March 29 in response to my letter of March 18, 1998. I read it over and over again. Each time, I felt within myself a deep sense of guilt. Please accept my abject apologies for causing so much of inconvenience. How I wish I could personally seek forgiveness not only from you, but also from the distinguished President of the Republic of Bangladesh and, of course, of the most gracious and respected Prime Minister as well as other friends. I really was so much looking forward to my last pilgrimage to Dhaka. This seems to be a classical case illustrated by the old saying that ‘Man proposes and God disposes’.
I had a letter from Prof. Rehman Shoban. I wrote to him to convey my apologies. I hope he has received my letter as I have had no response. I hope that he will be as forgiving as you are.
I am enclosing a copy of a Message I sent on the occasion of Bangabandhu’s 78th Birthday. It was, apparently, read out at a public meeting organised by the distinguished High Commissioner of Bangladesh in New Delhi.
Please do write as I would wish to have a sensation of being in contact with you all the time.
with lots of love and blessings,
Yours affectionately,

(P. N. Haksar)
Mr. Monaem Sarker
Director General
Bangladesh Foundation for Development Research
23 Chamelibagh, Dhaka-1217, Bangladesh

Phone : 4673545, 6886149
P. N. HAKSAR                                                                                                         4/9, SHANTINIKETAN
NEW DELHI- 110 021
July 3, 1998
Dearest Monaem,
I read and re-read hundred times your letter of May 28. And, each time I read it, my entire body and mind began vibrating and resonating with your deep love and I began wondering whether I deserve to be its recipient. If I may borrow Shakespearean words, your love for me is of the kind which the great dramatist described as something which is not shaken by tempest and that it is ‘a Star to every wandering bark’. As I survey my own little life, I am still a wandering bark and you provide me with some sort of compass from which I can decipher ‘direction’.
I hate to put any burden on you, but I would very much like to have the translation of those bits and pieces written in Bangladesh newspapers and more specially by Mr. Shahriar Kabir about me. I do not have the privilege of knowing him, and yet, I am deeply moved by the fact that he is gifting me some sort of immortality.
I was sad to hear about admiral Zuenko, I never met him, although I am familiar with his name. How I wish I could be of some assistance in helping him to get fully restored to good health. I should also like to know what precisely are his ailments and how old he is.
You have enquired about my state of health. All I can say is that I somehow carry own out of sheer will power.
As for your enquiry about my book, I understand that it has already been published in Bangladesh by the University Press in Dhaka with a Foreword by Dr. Kamal Hossain. I gave a copy of the book to a friend of mine in Delhi who has deep literary interest. She told me that the translation is exceptionally well done. However, I have no means of knowing. I would deeply appreciate your own reactions which would be precious to me.
Sitting in one corner of my room here in Delhi, my mind is occupied by surveying the human drama on this earth. My own feeling is that Homo sapiens as a species are systematically planning their own destruction.
If you happen to meet respected Sheikh Hasinaji as well as Abdul Samad Azadji, please do convey to them my heart-felt blessings and best wishes.
With lots of love to you and blessings to,
Yours affectionately,
(P. N. Haksar)
Mr. Monaem Sarker
Director General
Bangladesh Foundation for Development Research
23 Chamelibagh
Dhaka-1217, Bangladesh

Phone : 4673545, 6886149
P. N. HAKSAR                                                                                                         4/9, SHANTINIKETAN
NEW DELHI- 110 021

Dearest Monaem,
I have your letter of July 25 which is saturated with your love, care and concern. Normally, the prospect of your visit to Delhi and the two of us sitting side-by-side and talking about the past, present and the future would have been something exciting to look forward to. But I have to take you into confidence about one matter and I would not want you to advertise about it. I had to be hospitalised early in July. I had to undergo large number of painful tests and the result of it all is that I am now suffering from a malignant growth in my right kidney. The specialists who took care of me have prescribed Hormone therapy. In such a state of body and mind, I would hardly have any energy to help you in your projects. Also, the month of August in Delhi is going to be wholly occupied with ceremonies and functions marking the end of 50 years of Golden Jubilee of India’s Independence. You may therefore have to re-schedule your visit. And since hope arise eternally in human breast, I too am hoping that the treatment which I am undergoing would help me at least to sit up.
I shall look foroward to your comments on the Bengali version of my childhood and boyhood story as well as Kabir’s translation of bits and pieces he has, apparently, written about me. In the meantime, I send you my love and blessings,
Yours affectionately,
(P. N. Haksar)

Mr. Monaem Sarker
Director General
Bangladesh Foundation for Development Research
23 Chamelibagh, Dhaka-1217, Bangladesh

MONAEM SARKER
23 Chamelibagh, Dhaka-1217
Phone : 9333543, 9342592
Date : 29/07/1979

Most Respected Haksarji,
Your memorable and touchy letter reminds me the self exile period (1975-79) of mine in Calcutta and New Delhi, after the assassination of Bangabandhu. I remember with deep gratitude the help, assistance & co-operation rendered to me during that period, with similar dedication & sincerely as you did in 1971 liberation movement. Memory of Urmilaji still flashes on my mind, I cannot forget her motherly hospitality, specially the strong hot coffee with milk which she used to serve me during those days.
I sent a copy of your letter to Abdus Samad Azad who became very happy & emotionally touched after reading it. I will talk to SK. Hasinaji about your letter to her when she is back from the states.
You will be happy to know that translation work of your book One More Life is progressing well and it is expected to be completed very soon. It will be published in Bangla from Dhaka by an established publisher Agamee Prakashani by name.
I would like to inform you that we have founded a Research Organisation called Bangladesh Foundation for Development Research. We are contemplating to organise an International Seminar in December 1997 under the auspieces of this Foundation. We shall request you to be a guest of honour and key note address may have to be delivered by you. I will be thankful if you kindly suggest some topics of discussion for our Seminar. When I returned from India in early 1979 I took the initiative to form Bangabandhu Parishad. We also took the initiative to observe Silver Jubilee of our Independence. We got positive result out of these activities of ours. Now the forces of liberation are in power, truth has prevailed.
I am planning to visit Moscow, London & other European countries in the middle of August, You will be surprised to know that I never visited USSR during their good days, but hundreds of NAP & CPB leaders & cadres even the peon of NAP office visited USSR. I would like to study the break-up of USSR & the fall of socialism & so-called communism.
In the middle of November I may visit Calcutta to attend a Seminar there, if possible I shall try to visit New Delhi only to meet you.
How are Nandita & Anamika? Please convey my best wishes to them. How are Nikhil Da & Sumit? I am receiving the Mainstream regularly. Please convey my heartiest felicitation to them.
With warmest regards
Yours affectionately
(BAKUL SARKER)
alias/ MONAEM SARKER

To
P. N. HAKSAR
4/9, Shanti Niketan, New Delhi-110 021, India

Friday, 16 January 1998

My dear Haksarji,
First of all I beg to be pardoned for unable to visit you last November. I appolosize for not writing to you earlier, this is not because I did not find time to do so. In fact I was planning to write to you with some positive results and objectives. You remember the discussions and communications between you and I. Following it, I was trying to translating the ideas about which you are also aware. Please don’t mind for my delay in responding to your letters.
Your notes really delighted me immensely. It also left a lasting impression on my mind. I could not check my temptation to show those letters to some of my colleagues and friends who were also profoundly moved. You will be happy to learn that I also showed those letters to the very important persons like Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Mr. Abdus Samad Azad. Mr. SAMS Kibria, Begum Matia Chowdhury, Prof. Rehman Sobhan, Prof. Syed Anwar Hossain (DG, Bangla Academy) and others. They were also very deeply moved with the inner thoughts and the vastness of your mind that reflected in your letters.
Now I would like to provide you with the most important and significant information of my plan which we have taken up. You know, March 17 is the birth-day of our great leader Father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. We have chalked out a plan to observe that day in a befitting manner. The negligence that was shown to him after his brutal killing by the antiliberation elements who were for the last 21 years at the helms of all affairs of Bangladesh politics, has to be done away with once for all from the sacred sole of Bangladesh. For this end in view we are going to celebrate the day with a programme studded with Memorial Lecture tittled Bangabandhu Smarak Baktrita (Memorial lecture on Bangabandhu) followed by a Bangabandhu Padak (Bangabandhu Medal) giving ceremony. On this occasion we shall like to invite you as well as Admiral Zuenko (Russia), Mr. Peter Shore (UK), and Mr. Edward Kennedy (USA) as special guests. We hope to observe this day every year form now onward. I may go to India by the end of January or by the first week of February 1998. We shall discuss more in details when we meet. Prof. Rehman Sobhan has already talk to you over telephone about my plan. Mr. Abdus Samad Azad will also write to you soon in this regard. Mr. Shahriyeur Kabir a reknown journalist of Bangladesh is going to India. He has written some important news iteams about Indo-Bangladesh historic relation & role of India during liberation movement.
Hope you are happy with Nandita and Anamika. Please convey my love and affection to them.
With best regards.
Yours affectionately
(Monaem Sarker)

E-mail to Mr. Haksar.

Date : 29/3/1998

Honourable Haksarjee,
I am very much happy to receive your touchy letter. After getting information from the Indian High Commissioner that you won’t be able to come to attened our seminar I became very shocked and I postpone the whole programme. Though Honourable President had kindly concented to be the Chief guest in our seminar. And Prime Minister gave an appointment to meet you and other foreign guests. Because of your predicament at last I had to postpone the program.
I understand how much you feel for Bangladesh. I know your soft corner for my country. We are look forward for brighter days. We will meet again. Please try to keep yourself free from tension. I always remember you.
May God bless you. I hope you will be allright soon.
How is Anamika and Nandita?
Yours
(Monaem Sarker)

Date : 29-9-2001

CONFIDENTIAL FAX MESSAGE

Most Immediate

To : Pama, Dhaka

From : Bangladoot, New Delhi
Date : September 29, 2001
No. : 5195
Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs to Chief Adviser from High Commissioner.
I am informed in confidence by Mr. P. Rath, Additional Secretary (BSM), Ministry of External Affairs that a group of radical members of Harkat-ul Mujahideen and Ahle Hadls met in the 3rd week of September at Noudapara Madrasha Mosque in Rajshahi which happens to be their usual meeting place and hatched a plan to kill Hon’ble Shelkh Hasina by a human bomb from now on and in the event of AL victory at the coming polls at the time of her swearing-in.
Kindly bring this to the notice of the authorities so that adequate security measures can be taken and the planners can be nabbed beforehand.

Mostafa Faruque Mohammed
(High Commissioner, New Delhi)