Humayun Azad was recovering from the fatal injury inflicted on him by the fundamentalists. He was taking a drug named alprazolam (xanax) to treat hypertension. He was not warned by the physicians that the drug can turn fatal if he had alcoholic drinks with it. I have been told by one of his close friends that his death was due to the ominous combination of drug and drink.
I liked his literature though most of it was straight translation of renowned materials from English. He rarely bothered to mention the source. Yet, in the struggle against fundamentalism and political extremism, he has earned the status of a martyr.
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com> wrote:
http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidRecord=18190
Comment from Monsur Musa, Professor of Linguistics, former Director, Bangla Academy, and Director, Modern Language Institute, Dhaka University.
[By the way, should one require a proof of what a clown Abid Bahar is, there is a report available which surveys his students' opinions on him. It is hilarious!]
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 20:57:33 -0800
From: monsur.musa@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Response to "Humayun Azad's Death"
To: farida_majid@hotmail.comDear faridayou are,more or less right about Humayun's contribution to Bengali language and literature. I am trying to evaluate the level of his understanding the theoretic linguistic position of the object of his study. It is quite amazing!His passion for literature,sometimes dominated over his commitment to linguistics. But still he is remarkableHis demise is a lossRegardsMonsur Musa.
From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
To:
Sent: Friday, March 9, 2012 2:23 AM
Subject: Response to "Humayun Azad's Death"
http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidRecord=18190
The petty liar fetches a more monsterous liar (Ayi Bahar Mela) to fend his lies. How does the messianic mission of spreading lies serve these liars by posting garbled text? Very peculiar! But you wouldn't expect LOGIC from one who believes in the existence of Bakshal lurking behind every person who refuses to believe in his lies.
As for the vicious liar Ayi Bahar on Humayun Azad, almost every bit of information he indulged on is slanderous and proven falsehood. Humayun was, to the utter dismay of his enemy camp, a very popular teacher at DU. His students, men and women, really loved him. In fact, his followers and 'bhokto' were spread all over the country. After the gruesome attack on him at the boi mela that almost killed him, there were protest marches around the country with the banner "Amra ki ei Bangladesh cheyecchilam?" -- a title of one his books of essays and columns. So Ayi Bahar's crude and cruel hint at Humayun being anti-Bangladesh and an Indian dalal is based solely on Humayun's fierce opposition to Islamic fundamentalism. Bahar blithely equates anti-fundamentalism with anti-Islam (which Humayun was not), which is then automatically equated with being an Indian dalal. Therefore, Humayun deserved the attempted murder from a 'pro-Bangladeshi', a diabolically communal, anti-Indian person, somewhat like Abid Bahar himself.
Though he loved a lubricated 'adda', Humayun was not known as a drunken slob, and was not a womanizer kind that is quite common in the 'antel' circle of Dhaka. The current VC of DU, Prof. Arefin, Humayun's former colleague, once spoke at a meeting of Humayun's popularity among his students resting on his moral integrity, his fearlessness about speaking the truth rather than on any other pretensions.
Humayun Azad's scholarly contribution towards the field of Bangla language and liguistic studies is really enormous and perhaps second only to Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah. He has several books of his own Ph D. research findings besides being the compiler and editor of a 2-vol collection of essays on Bangla language over a period of 100 years. Altogether he was the author of more than 80 books by the time of his untimely death. There is not a single mature person in Bangladesh in his/her right mind who would question Humayun's outstanding talent and achievements. Leave it to the depravity of Abid Bahar to ask: "Was he an ambitious person wanted to become internally famous than he deserved?"
Abid Bahar sneaks in a bit of self-advertisement by saying how he himself had written on religious fundamentalism. Introducing his concocted cockamamie about Humayun with a quote from John Donne's famous sermon at St Paul is truly nauseating since it soon becomes apparent that Ayi Bahar is Punch-happy about Humayun's untimely demise, and may very well have been closely associated with the group who organized the ghastly chapati assault on Humayun on 25th February, 2004.
Farida Majid
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