“Tensions loomed before Russel’s birth. Kamal, Jamal, Rehana, Khoka uncle and
I, were at home. Ma was with Boro Fupu and Mejo Fupu (paternal aunts). A doctor and a nurse
came along with. Time seemed to had stopped. Jamal and Rehana kept on falling asleep only to
wake up again. We stayed awake the entire night to welcome the youngest member of family.
Mejo Fupu came out with news. We had a baby brother. Our joys knew no bounds. We couldn’t
wait to see our baby brother. Mejo Fupu said she would call. Soon our wait came to an end.
Boro Fupu placed him in my lap. A head full of thick black hair, fluffy fluffy cheeks,
Russel was quite the healthy child.”
Source: Sheikh Hasina, ‘Amader Choto Russel Shona’

Irresistibly Lively Sheikh Russel
Sheikh Russel, the youngest son of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was
born on 18 October 1964 at the historical Bangabandhu Bhaban or now, the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum.
Sheikh Russel was named after Bangabandhu’s favorite writer, renowned philosopher and Noble laureate
Bertrand Russell, by Bangabandhu himself and Mother Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib. Very active and
playful from a very early age, Russel, was light of the family. However, life didn’t remain playful.
He had to face the harsh cruelty of life from the age of one and half, when he had to visit Dhaka
Central Jail and Dhaka Cantonment just to meet his beloved father. From cruelty, life soon became
merciless. In 1971, he himself became an inmate of Dhaka Central Jail, just at the age of seven.
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