Ritwik Ghatak ancestral house demolished

With this, last trace of the noted filmmaker and director in Rajshahi obliterated

The last trace of internationally renowned filmmaker and director Ritwik Kumar Ghatak has been erased in Rajshahi as the authorities of a homeopathic college demolished the rest of his ancestral home at Miapara area in the city.
Earlier in December, 2019, the Rajshahi Homeopathic College and Hospital authorities had started demolishing the filmmaker ancestral home but had to move back after filmmakers and cultural activists staged demonstrations, urging the authorities concerned to declare it a heritage site and establish a memorial museum on the premises as done with legendary actress Suchitra Sen ancestral house in Pabna.
During a visit to the site on Wednesday afternoon, this correspondent found that the house was completely demolished and labourers were piling up all the bricks of the one-storey building at a place in order to remove them.
Shamim Mia, the contractor who was given the task to demolish the house and remove its rubble, told reporters that he was informed that the front wall of the old structure was vandalised by the students on August 6, one day after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country (on August 5).