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Untranquil Recollections: The Years of Fulfilment is a memoir of Rehman Sobhan, a prominent economist and public intellectual who played an active role in the Bangladeshi national movement of the 1960s. It is a narration of events by the author who lived through extraordinary phases in the histories of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and the impact they had on him. His story relates to the life and perspectives of an individual born into a family of relative privilege and educated at elite schools. Later on, his life moved on to a different trajectory from its intended path and he eventually came to be involved in the political struggles that culminated in the emergence of an independent Bangladesh.
Rehman Sobhan
Rehman Sobhan, a recipient of Shadhinata Puraskar, Bangladesh’s highest civilian award, is founder and chairman, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD). He served as a member of the first caretaker government in Bangladesh in 1991 and a member, Bangladesh Planning Commission 1972–75. He was a Professor, Economics Department, Dhaka University, and Director General, BIDS, Bangladesh. He was actively associated with the Bengali nationalist movement during the 1960s and the Bangladesh liberation struggle in 1971. His publications include Challenging the Injustice of Poverty: Agendas for Inclusive Development in South Asia (2010), Untranquil Recollections: The Years of Fulfilment (2015) and Untranquil Recollections: Nation Building in Post-Liberation Bangladesh (2021).
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