Me and My Family (BAZLUR)

My name is Bazlur Rahman Khan, however, my family members, relatives and neighbours, call me by nick name Milu. My father's name is Azizur Rahman Khan and my mother's name is Late Razia Khanam. I am the eldest among two brothers and three sisters. My father is a pass out of Shillong College, Shillong. Recently, he retired from Karimganj Telephone Exchange, after serving many years in Shillong; My wife is Afsana Amin Soma, she is doctorate in the subject of Mass Communciation, currently teaching in Aliah University, Kolkata; younger brother Habibur Rahman Khan (Nilu) is a Charted Accountant, and currently working with Oil India Limited in Assam.Younger sister Rehana Khanam (Bappi) did her MCA from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi and teaching in Sikkim Manipal University, Karimganj Centre; younger to her is Amina Khanam (Poppi) studying B.COM. Youngest among us is Nasrin Fatima Khanam (Momi), a student of class IX, she stays in our native town, Karimganj.

My paternal grandfather is Sikandar Ali Khan. He is the son of Nasir Mehmud Khan, whose parents moved to village Baleswar North from their ancestral village, Ratanpur. My eldest paternal uncle was Abdul Hai Khan, a middle school Headmaster and a passout of Sylhet MC College; second uncle Abdullah Khan was a school pass out who used to manage household resposibilities; third uncle Abdul Haque Khan, a passout of Karimganj College was also a middle school headmaster. We belong to the Khandan or clan of Sharif Khan, still people in our ancestral village called us Sharif Khan's descendants. He was a prominent person of my native place about five or six generation ago. The large land estate of Baleswar and Ratanpur is still mentioned as Sharif Khan's Talluk in the Govt. of India's revenue documents. However, many many years before him, Shaban Shah, our forefather, first settled at Kaliganj in Karimganj. He was a Sufi, still people irrespective of religions visit his graveyard, located in a village named Sirajidipur, near Ratanpur. Sirajidipur, Ratanpur and Balleswar villages are very near to Kaliganj Bazar in the district of Karimganj in Assam. Shaban Shah is believed to be migrated from the outside, as because many Sufi Saints, and other adventurers, settled in this part of undivided Bengal during the medieval period, after the arrival of great Sufi Hazrat Shahjalal in Sylhet in the begining of 14th century.