Dr Zaman, this year’s recipient of the Ekushey Padak, guided the audience to use the Pink Shelf regardless of gender, “I will also say that a man can be a greater feminist than a woman.

"I am a crazy woman," stated Dr Niaz Zaman, at the inauguration of Sister Library IUB Campus Pink Shelf on February 26. "In the past, wherever I travelled, I spent a lot of time in libraries.