A rare fragment of the life of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been screened in Canada for the first time. State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak inaugurated the ‘Lighting the Fire of Freedom Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’ exhibition at Mississauga Art Gallery in Toronto, Ontario on Friday morning.
The state minister was welcomed by Adil Khan, curator of the Art Gallery of Michigan, and Anna Gulnisky, executive director.
Rajiv Samdani, founder of Samdani Art Foundation and collector of rare paintings and one of the patrons of the exhibition was present.
The exhibition presents rare images of various events from the time of Bangabandhu’s birth in 1920 to the year of his assassination in 1975. At first there was a picture of Bangabandhu’s birthplace. There was a photograph of participating in the movement simultaneously with Mahatma Gandhi while still a school student. The exhibition features a number of dedicated oil paintings, such as ‘Father’s Gift to the New Generation’ by painter Syed Iqbal. There was also a digital book of all the documentary paintings in the exhibition. In it, abstract works of Bangabandhu’s life and work have been presented for the new generation.
After visiting the exhibition, the Minister of State himself occasionally described the picture with the curator. Drown in the alleys of history. He used to listen to some of the paintings presented in the exhibition by one or two elderly people. One of them, Kamal, a student of the Institute of Fine Arts at Dhaka University, thanked State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak for the colorful version of the March 7 speech. Standing in front of the picture, he described the memories of that day.
Apart from the organizers, the state minister for ICT also thanked the organizing associate CRI trustee and grandson of Bangabandhu Radwan Mujib Bobby and fellow state minister for power Nasrul Hamid Bipu for the entire event.