A Boy and a War S R Shuja Chapter 1 My dad was posted in a government hospital in a town named Navaron in southern Bangladesh, then East Pakistan. He had landed this job after graduating fro... Read more
A Boy and a War S R Shuja Chapter 2 Winter wasn’t totally over yet. The touch of coolness in the air felt quite good. One evening after travelling in a bus for practicall... Read more
A Boy and a War S R Shuja Chapter 3 Finally Dad’s date of departure was fixed. He was scheduled to leave Dhaka on 7th February. I had a great desire to see off dad in the... Read more
A Boy and a War S R Shuja Chapter 4 Finally one day mom declared that she was feeling well enough to visit her parental house. She still had volcanic coughs and the dreaded mor... Read more
A Boy and a War S R Shuja Chapter 5 Decided but we still had to hold off the trip to Khulna until mom felt well enough to make the trip. Her pregnancy seemed to have frequent u... Read more
A Boy and a War S R Shuja Chapter 6 During my next visit to nana’s house I had the opportunity to experience two unique things. One was exorcism and the other one was sanctifie... Read more
A Boy and a War S R Shuja Chapter 7 We started from nana’s house at dawn. Rani apa walked as far as a mile along with the bullock cart. It was clear she didn’t want... Read more
A Boy and a War S R Shuja Chapter 8 After the speech by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 7th March nobody had any doubt that the situation was quickly turning into trouble. Mujibur Rah... Read more
A Boy and a War S R Shuja Chapter 9 A few days later we received an urgent message about jhima. She wasn’t doing well. She had been suffering from varieties of health iss... Read more
A Boy and a War S R Shuja Chapter 10 Only about a week had passed by since Rani apa had left. Jhima had been healthy and returned to her normal routine of pestering everybody w... Read more
