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NWU observed Sheikh Russel Day 2022
October 18, 2022

Sheikh Russel, the youngest son of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was born on 18 October 1964 at the historical Bangabandhu Bhaban or now, the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum. Sheikh Russel was named after Bangabandhu�s favorite writer, renowned philosopher and Noble laureate Bertrand Russell, by Bangabandhu himself and Mother Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib. Very active and playful from a very early age, Russel, was light of the family. However, life didn�t remain playful. He had to face the harsh cruelty of life from the age of one and half, when he had to visit Dhaka Central Jail and Dhaka Cantonment just to meet his beloved father. From cruelty, life soon became merciless. In 1971, he himself became an inmate of Dhaka Central Jail, just at the age of seven.
Youngest of the family, his world revolved around his father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, mother Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, sisters Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana and brothers Sheikh Kamal and Sheikh Jamal. Russel was assassinated along with his family members in a domestic and foreign conspiracy on the night of 15 August, 1975. He was then only a student of grade 4 of University Laboratory School.