Current Status(June 2010): IDLE (Dhaka local contact
failed to locate her)
Brief Background of Kolom Dadi:
Kalam (pen) Dadi (grandma) is the name she is carrying now in
Dhaka University Campus forgetting her real name, Nasera Begum. Originally from Natore district, she finished her Masters
in Bangla literature from Rajshahi University in 1969 with Honors from the same institution and started her career as school teacher in a high school. She was married
to Mr. Chan Mia, a bank manager of then Habib Bank. On 5th April of 1971, Mr. Chan Mia never returned to his wife after
being abducted by the liberation opposition forces. She did not have children and she did not marry again. She was passing
her time with the students as her own children.
But that did not last long. She started serving as the Head Mistress
of Khulna Memorial High School in 1983. In 1985 she had to give up her job due to failure of ‘right valve of her heart’.
In 1987 she came to Dhaka for better treatment and started a job in a kindergarten. She also started a homeopath medicine
corner. But eventually she lost all her deposits to this disease. She finally got admitted to Heart Foundation. Bad luck never let her alone. A incorrect procedure
made her situation even worse.
