Dhaka, Jan. 17 -- Mir Abdur Razzaq died in London thirteen years ago at the age of eighty. Two years before he passed on, on a fairly cold October day, a good group of Bengalis resident in London, most of them British citizens, came together to observe the fiftieth anniversary of Razzaq's arrival in London. He deserved all the tributes, all the poetry that was showered on him that evening. I listened, impressed, to every word of praise that was being showered on him. He listened too, somewhat embarrassed, for he had never consciously made an effort to be in the public eye in all the years he had spent in Britain. In this he was unlike so many other others, who always appeared unable or unwilling to resist the temptation to be in the limel...