Bangabandhu “Greatest Bengali of All Time”
Listeners of the BBC’s Bengali service have voted Bangladesh’s first president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the “Greatest Bengali of All Time”. Sheikh Mujibur, assassinated in 1975, easily beat Nobel prize-winning poet and playwright Rabindranath Tagore. Another Nobel laureate, economist Amartya Sen, was the only living person in the top 20 at number 14. He was one […]