Dhaka, July 20 Like most fathers, Humayun Ahmed too wanted to leave something for his youngest son to remember him by.
Not yet two, Ninit will almost certainly grow up without any memories of his father. Perhaps that had been on the popular writer's mind too.
His last novel, 'Badshah Namdar' published in the 2011 Ekushey book fair, was dedicated to Ninit.
Humayun wrote, "I have a feeling Ninit might grow up without any memories of his father. I am doing much so that he remembers me. I don't like taking pictures but nowadays I take photographs with Ninit at every opportunity. This book is also part of that project."
The novel 'Badshah Namdar' revolves around Humayun's namesake, the second Mughal emperor who virtually sleep-walked through his life and managed to leave a legacy for Akbar only by sheer luck.
Writer Humayun read about the exploits of Sher Shah over his namesake who lacked the characteristic Mughal inclination for warfare.
This apparently led Humayun, the writer, to felt humiliated when he was in sixth and seventh grade. "We had to study Mughal history and I had to suffer part of [Humayun's] humiliation at the hands of Sher Shah."
Humayun said he even developed a kind of inferiority complex faced with the constants taunts of his classmates, who took to calling him 'loser Humayun' (Haru Humayun in Bengali).
The prolific writer went to the United States in September last year for cancer treatment. After a brief visit to Bangladesh he returned to the US for surgery. He passed away on Thursday night in New York's Bellevue Hospital. He was 64.
Humayun is survived by two sons — Ninit and Nishad — with second wife Shaon, and three daughters — Nova, Shila, Bipasha — and son Nuhash with his previous wife Gultekin.
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