WORLD EXCLUSIVE REPORT on 50 years of defending the Brick Lane London E1 area that contains Banglatown: The battle continues [1]

0305 [0250] Hrs GMT London

Sunday 02 December 2012.

By © Muhammad Haque.

WORLD EXCLUSIVE REPORT on 50 years of defending the Brick Lane London E1 area that contains  Banglatown: The battle continues [1]

I am marking the campaign that I had initiated on Sunday 02 December 1973

within hours of reading the Sunday Times Colour Magazine article attacking the Sylhetti speaking Bangladeshis in the Brick Lane London E1 area.

n doing so I do two things here.

Remember the part played by Mr Abdul Aziz [also known as Azir Uddin] and the group of our dedicated students led by Abdus Salam [Boro Salam].

I also pay tribute to my childhood best friend and an uncle the late Muhammad Nurul Islam [also known as Mona].

It was ‘Mona Mamu’ who was at ghat time my kind supplier of the daily papers in London. He took particular delight in arriving at  my home in New Road from his in the Kinder Street off  the Cannon Street Road carrying all the heavy newspapers, grinning from ear to ear as if to say to me: this will teach you to ask me to fetch you the entire shop full of papers!

On that Sunday, Mona Mamu came wearing his usual mischievous  smile and as we began to have breakfast, I turned the pages of the Sunday Times Colour magazine. It had nothing that interested me until I reached a later page and the word hit me, quite literally: Brick Lane!

[To be continued]

The “UK Bangladeshis Community Life Action Resource and Library Network” has been enlisting Foundation Members.

Those so far signed up include:

Abbas Uddin Helal [Cllr]

Fozol Miah [Cllr]

Abjol Miah [ex-Cllr]

Kahar Choudhury [community campaigner]

Juned Ahmed Shundor [community campaigner]

Abdal Miah [social services worker and community activist]

[The list will be continued]