As she turns 67, Sheikh Rehana looks back at life with a Shakespearian ending: “All’s Well That Ends Well.”
When her father the great Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was gunned down with almost the whole family, the teenage Rehana wished she had died.
“How could I live with so much pain!” she told years later, lamenting especially for her mother and youngest brother Russel.
“They were not in politics, so why were they killed?” she fumed in anger, crying for justice and punishment for the killers of 1975.
But Rehana, who survived the bloody coup because she was in Germany with her sister turned round to marry and raise a family in far-off London– all the while the ultimate confidante of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina but never a contender for the spoils of office.
Rehana is an ideal sister, a selfless source of support for her elder sister, Hasina, both