Before fleeing Bangladesh, I went to my hometown of Sylhet to bid my parents goodbye.
“I won’t see you again, son,” my elderly father Shafique Ahmed, a retired tea planter, said. “I won’t live until Bangladesh becomes ready for your return. … So this is the last time we are seeing each other. Go and live your life.”
I never saw him again.
I am the second of my parents’ seven children. I couldn’t attend the funeral of my father, who died four years after I left. He inspired me and, without hesitation, was always there for us, his children.
“Choosing a path is your choice. My job is to be with my children. Wherever you go, I am there,” my father used to say.
No one ever saw my dad practice any religion, nor did he like to talk about the subject. My mother Monowara Boro Bhuiyan, on the other hand, is a pious Muslim, and we seven siblings are all different – ranging from an atheist like me to a 100% practicing Muslim brother
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