A Highway Engineer's Untold Story (Hardcover)

A Roads and Highways engineer, spanning a long career in the sixties and in the early days of pre-liberation and post liberation times, Shaikh Fazlur Rahman portrays his professional life through the government corridors of power and politics, displaying his special expertise in constructing roads, highways and bridges in exciting and sometimes unexplored terrains in Bangladesh. Long retired, he looks back on his professional and personal life and tells us of an interesting but untold story of the different and challenging situations he has found himself in, while performing his duties as well as negotiating a well-informed path that brings him the ultimate goal of reaching the highest position in his department as the Chief Engineer. In his memoirs, Shaikh Fazlur Rahman brings insights and lessons of years of expertise in the Roads and Highways department that will certainly provide a wealth of interesting information to the young generations of engineers working in similar fields. In his writing, readers will also find a soft, kind and compassionate human being under the polite façade of a technocrat.