Sharfuddin's Blog

I n 1950, during the era of Pakistan (present Bangladesh), counterfeit currency suddenly started flooding the market. The entire administration was paralyzed. There was no way to stop the production of these counterfeit notes. A gentleman, then working as an Assistant Superintendent of Police, was assigned to investigate several cases related to these counterfeit notes. Eventually, he solved these cases. This police officer was, in fact, a fiction writer. He had already written a novel titled 'The Long Sun House' (Shurjo dighol Bari) by August 1948. However, due to the lack of a publisher for four years, he was understandably disheartened. So, he thought that writing a detective novel might attract readers. Based on the counterfeit note cases, he finally completed this novel in 1954. The novel was titled 'Fake' (Jaal). However, this novel was published 34 years later. The author's name was Abu Ishaque. He is a legendary fiction writer. But is he any less a lexicogr...

  I once read that at a gathering, a journalist had asked Syed Mujtaba Ali, upon seeing him drink alcohol, 'What will the young generation learn from seeing you drink?' In response, Syed Mujtaba Ali, taking a sip from his glass, said, 'Tell your young generation that before drinking, I had mastered 23 languages of the world.' There's another interesting anecdote about him! Syed Mujtaba Ali was a very famous writer at the time. Every day, admirers would come to his house to see him. One day, an admirer asked Mujtaba Ali how he wrote his books. No matter how much Mujtaba Ali tried to avoid the question, the admirer persisted. Finally, instead of answering directly, Mujtaba Ali said, 'Look, the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung once wrote in his diary that some people ask me how I write. I have to say one thing about this, if someone wants, we can show them our children, but we cannot show them the process of creating children.' This man was full of such humo...