Left-wing intellectual Jatin Sarker to be honoured, cremated in Netrokona

Mourners will join in commemorative events at the town’s Shaheed Minar

Jatin Sarker, a left-wing intellectual, Independence Award-winning writer, and teacher, will be taken to Netrokona for final respects and cremation.

After tributes, his last rites will be held there.

Mustafizur Rahman, president of Netrokona district council of Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigoshthi, said the body will be taken directly from Mymensingh to Jatin’s residence at “Vanaprastha” on Ramkrishna Mission Road.

Family members and close relatives will be able to pay their respects there.

Jatin lived in that house for more than two and a half decades.

Later at 8pm, he will be taken to the central Shaheed Minar in Netrokona town, where local residents will honour him.

Political, social and cultural organisations of the town, along with admirers from Mymensingh and Dhaka, will offer their final respects to the veteran scholar.

At 11pm, Jatin’s cremation will take place at the central crematorium on Barhatta Road in Netrokona.

The schedule was finalised after consultations with family, relatives and close friends, said the Udichi district president.

The 89-year-old scholar died while receiving treatment in the ICU of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital at 2:45pm on Wednesday.