Humayun Ahmed And The Things You Don’t Need To Know

 Humayun Ahmed And The Things You Don’t Need To Know

 

Samsur Rahman is one of the finest and fascinating writers that I have ever seen in my life. Are you a bit surprised that I am talking about Samsur Rahman in an article with the title Humayun Ahmed in it? If I say Humayun Ahmed was named Samsur Rahman for 6 years? Yes, it's true. Humayun Ahmed’s name was initially Samsur Rahman for the first 6 years. Suddenly his father decided to change his name to Humayun Ahmed. Surprisingly all his siblings has gone through the same thing. Humayun Ahmed’s childhood life is full of interesting stories.

 

Humayun Ahmed and His Parents

 

When the childhood of someone is mentioned, mentioning that person's parents becomes a must. Humayun Ahmed’s father, Faizur Rahman, was a sub-inspector, and his mother, Ayesha Foyez, was a housewife. As their first child, his parents always tried to keep him in love. Even when he broke something or threw away a plate full of food his father would see that in an optimistic way. When he tore down pages from books his father would assume that he was brilliant because he did not understand the words written there he did not like them. His mother loved him very much with her whole heart. Their upbringing gave us the Humayun Ahmed we know.

 

 

Humayun Ahmed was a good guy reading books always?

Humayun Ahmed is now one of the finest writers in modern Bangla literature. But how was he when he was a kid? Did he used to read books all day all this time? No, it was completely different. He used to roam around all the time. Most of the time he was not seen in the house. He was a mischievous kid. On top of that, his father told everyone not to bother children about their studies and let them enjoy themselves. So, our beloved Humayun Ahmed started roaming with and without companions. Sometimes he used to get lost so he had to ask directions from others. He had only one restriction and that is to be present during the lunch hours. It’s a wonder right how this wonder kid turned out to be a wonderful writer.

 

 

Humayun Ahmed and His School Life

 

As I said earlier Humayun Ahmed was a very mischievous kid. But to get some hold on him it was decided to get him admitted to a school. On the first day of school, Humayun Ahmed decided to sit beside an entrancing girl. But unfortunately, that girl took an evil step and started mocking him about an issue that I don’t want to mention. This made the whole class laugh aloud which led to a fight with a boy in the end. Unfortunate but true that Humayun Ahmed spent most of his class one standing outside the class going under some sort of punishment. You can guess how much frightening place school was for him. But he had a partner over there and that guy's name was Shankar. This guy Shankar had a vital role in Humayun Ahmed’s life and I will tell you about him in a while. Though his primary school life excluding study carried on this similar pattern there is also a funny thing he did. Remember the girl who insulted him the first day? He proposed that girl for marriage when he was in class two.

 

 

 

Humayun Ahmed and Education

As far as you have seen Humayun Ahmed was not into studies that much. But a turn came in his educational life when he was about to sit for the examinations of class 3 final exam.  Suddenly Shankar his only best friend’s mom announced that she would buy Shankar a football if Shankar passed the final exam. These two friends started to plan how to prepare Shankar for the final exams. So our beloved writer Humayun Ahmed took the responsibility to tutor Shankar. Now to tutor Shankar, Humayun Ahmed had to study first. Finally, they sat for the exam and the day of the result came. Unfortunately, Shankar did not pass but Humayun Ahmed, making everyone astonished came first. But don’t feel sad because they got the football as Shankar was promoted on special basis. You might think this was the first time people got a glance of Humayun Ahmed's talent. But let me tell you he was very brilliant from an early age. One time, his father told his kids that if they could memorize and recite any poem from “Shonchoyita”(By Rabindranath Tagore), he would offer them some prize money.  And Humayun Ahmed managed to recite an entire poem named “Ebar Ferao More” and got the prize money(His first income from literary field according to Humayun Ahmed).

 

 

 Some Stories In The End

Humayun Ahmed has many interesting stories throughout his life that are difficult to cover in one blog. But at the end of the blog, I will share two of his stories that remained in him for a very long time.

One

His uncle and mom used an inhuman way of punishing him. He was too out of control that is true but this method was too much illiberal. They used to hold him upside down over a Well. You can see the reflection of this fear in some of his writings. But I won't be giving spoilers.

Another

Before getting admitted to school he used to sneak out during the noon time. At that time there was an icecream seller who would offer him free ice cream and stare at him with a delightful look.

 

I tried to reflect on those parts of his childhood that are statistically not represented but yet very important parts of one’s life. Humayun Ahmed reflected most of his life stories in his writings. He tried to write all the things that happened in his life in various ways. He had a great sense of emotion too. So when you read a book of a writer whose life was like most of our life you start to feel the emotion of that article. And of course, we can not deny his brilliant mind.

Humayun Ahmed 

(1948-2012)

A Writer

A Director

An Music Artist