My Brother Dulal

My brother Ferdous Alam Dulal
by Shamsul Alam Belal
ON MAY 7, 1981 Ferdous Alam Dulal was killed along with the eminent labour leader Abdur Rahman on Bijoy Nagar Road in the capital. His death was a bolt from the blue for our family. Our mother, who had already lost two of her sons in their minor age, refused to accept that Dulal was no more among us; she still doesn’t. The second among nine children of my parents, Dulal was born in the first half of January 1951. Our mother had extra affection for him, maybe because he was her only fair-complexioned son with a large head, thick curly hair, slim but tall figure and an innocent fact. He used to be timid in his adolescence but became somewhat bohemian in his youth..........................