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August 19, 2005: Rare Book Collector in Bangladesh
"Baseer was travelled to the USA under International Visitor Programme in May-June, 1978 to study American Art in various art institutions, museums and galleries at Washington D. C, Chicago, Omaha, Santa-Fe, San-Francisco, Boston and New York. He was visited London under British Council Fellowship in 1987 to research on heritage of art of Bengal at India office library and records, British museum, Victoria and Albert museum.
When this writer came to this maestro's house, he was astonished to see the collections of rare books in various fields in world literature, art, journals, cuttings from papers, magazines and lots of valuable documents."


