Ninety-one years ago today, on August 19, 1935, a boy named
Mohammad Zahirullah was born in the small village of Majupur, in the Sonagazi
area of what was then Noakhali district in undivided Bengal. Nobody in that
household could have guessed that this child would grow up to change the shape
of Bengali storytelling twice over, first with his pen and then with his
camera, before vanishing into the chaos of a newborn nation and never being
found again. The world remembers him as Zahir Raihan: nove...
