Asia

An entrepreneur who swapped life in a Bangladeshi village surrounded by paddy fields for a daily dose of division and bricks through the windows in 1980’s Oldham, has now seen Britain become a place where he is able to thrive – and “give back”. In his first book, “The Gift of Giving”, Muzahid Khan charts a life filled with the strife of civil war in Asia, a huge readjustment in living conditions when his family came to Oldham and settled on Mars Street, a year-long fight against depression and now the joy of working in a diverse community. This has enabled him to raise family, and his charitable work has seen him return to Bangladesh to help build a health clinic in the village of Sylhet. “Much has been written and said about the Windrush generation and their stoicism and heroism in ...