A death is not the extinguishing of a lightbut the putting out of a lampbecause the dawn has come. Mrs Rehana Mohsin or Renu Apa or simply Bubu, as she was to me, was born in pre-partition Calcutta. She was the eldest daughter of former ambassador Syed Maqbul Murshed and Ume-Zainab, the daughter of Fatima Khatoon, our grandmother, and Chowdhury Muhammad Amin, our maternal grandfather. My sisters were only eight and nine years old at the time, and I can’t imagine the trauma of losing the one you love most, at such a tender age. That, to me, was my sister’s legacy.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 19, 2020 01:30 UTC