Mohammad Ayub, who the world would come to know as Ayub
Bachchu, was born on August 16, 1962, in the Khorna union of Patiya upazila in
Chittagong district, in what was then East Pakistan and is now Bangladesh. He
was the eldest son of Mohammad Ishaque Chowdhury and Nurjahan Begum. Following
the Liberation War of 1971, which reshaped the country his family called home,
the Chowdhurys moved from the rural surroundings of Patiya into the city of
Chittagong itself, a port city with a restless,...
