I
began to review the highlights of my life since my birth in Jessore,
Bangladesh, the years of my boyhood in Chittagong, then moving back
to Faujdarhat Cadet College at the age of twelve, Eid days (Muslim
Festivals) spent dining in the Grandma's house, summer fishing in
Foyez lake, the exhilarating trip to see the tea garden in Sylhet,
the spur-of-the-moment joy ride to India to see the Tajmahal, the
class field trip to the Nepal to see the Everest. My life is a story
of an average individual, shy, self-conscious, subject to all the
frailties, who rose by dedicated effort, love and an abiding faith
in humanity. Perched on the south territories of Bangladesh, on the
outer fringe of the peninsula of Padma, jutting out into the Bay of
Bengal, lies the city of Jessore. In this city, on August 12, 1971,
a son was born to Rasna, wife of Monwar Chowdhury, the federal transportation
officer, of the tiny division of Khulna. Very soon after my birth,
however my family moved for a long period to Mehdibag, Chittagong,
which thus became the real home, and for all serious purposes, the
native place of Chowdhury. Based on the national competitive examination
in 1983 I received six and half years of full college scholarship
and I went to Faujdarhat Cadet College
for six and half years. I passed the Secondary School Certificate
Examination in science group of the board of intermediate and secondary
education, Comilla, Bangladesh in 1987 and was placed in first division.
After that in 1989 I passed the higher secondary certificate Examination
in science group of the same educational board and was placed in
first division again, and graduated from the college with good academic
and overall performance.
