Mohammad Samir Hossain - A True Story Of Success


by Ibn Manjur - Date: 2007-03-22 - Word Count: 959 Share This!

It was the 28th of November in 1976. A baby boy was born in a lower middle class educated family of Bangladesh. He became the third son of a semi-government service holder and named as Mohammad Samir Hossain. It was such an ordinary family where average good food was the main sort of weekly entertainment. New dresses were bought twice a year for the children, but parents did not even have any such schedule. Love was all around and it helped to breath the family happily.

Samir was meritorious from his very early childhood. He got himself admitted in the best school of the country at that time and accordingly also got going with the best college too. With the hard earned money, his father gave all his effort for all the three children. And it was the father, not the little money he earned, that was truly distributed among the children. The mother was a house-wife and did not even hesitate to spare her treatment to provide the children with good education and nutrition.

Among the three, Samir was a bit different. When he was in class/grade eight he wrote an article about the theory of relativity in a magazine. He was also rewarded as the best editor of his school magazine several times. From that age he decided to proceed with the science of human mind and started reading psychology book in extra of the school syllabus. The most surprising thing, which his mother remembers, was that he declared not to fight for the first place in the class and decided rather to read and learn. First the parents thought that he was not serious about the decision. But after two years it was well evident that Samir is really interested in learning, not in competition. When he got admitted in the college he liked to read physics books and work out the mathematics of dynamics. He helped Professor Nasim Banu in writing her famous text book of Biology for college students. After he completed his twelve class he got admitted in the second best government medical college of Bangladesh and completed his MBBS. All through the course of his education, mentioned so far, he never had to pay much, rather he was helped by the poor fund of school, from the fund of the government and also with the special allowances for meritorious medical students. During the 3rd year of his MBBS, he started to translate the famous book - The Psychopathology of everyday life, by Sigmund Freud to Bengali language. But his effort was very much discouraged by the criticism of the other medical students. So he had to hide himself from them most of the time and continued his personal study on human mind against all odds. As soon as he completed his MBBS, his father retired from the job and he had to pay for the expenses of his family. So postgraduate education became almost impossible for him. But in contrast he had the dream to work with some high level researcher from a very advanced country. It was his financial limitation that was even preventing him from buying books, let alone going abroad.

So he started to search for some scholar who would guide him as a friend, philosopher and teacher and would take no money for the service. After searching day and night on the internet for long six months, he found Dr. Sanderson Beck, one of the candidates for US president election from Democratic party in 2004, from California who agreed to provide him with a 100% scholarship for his MS in Abnormal Psychology. He supervised his education and finally Samir completed the MS. And also he studied for a diploma in Basic Modern Psychology with full free studentship and he became one of the eight students from all around the world who passed the final examination. Also he was the youngest among all the 70 students that got admitted initially.

Seeing the desperate interest of Samir in the Science of Human Mind, both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association elected him as a member and certified him in recognition of his significant contribution in Psychiatry. He was rewarded the Professional Membership of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention at New York for his contribution in their suicide research. While staying in his native country, he continued to enjoy the Continuing Medical Education from USA fully free of cost and Harvard Medical School was one of those that provided him with such facility. Finally he started to look for an opportunity to do a PhD with full scholarship and he found that from Spain, in which several Royal figures were involved to finance him. The final grade of his research was evaluated as "Excellent" by the university.

After the completion of the PhD, Mohammad Samir Hossain was found to be the first and only researcher from all around the world to work on the Relationship of Religiosity and Acceptance of Death as a Natural Phenomenon. In recognition of his hard work for the education and science he received the Leading Health Professionals of the World-2006 award from Cambridge and many more thereafter. He is now enlisted in the Dictionary of International Biography, 33rd edition and working as member of many research organizations.

Mohammad Samir Hossain is 30 years old now, and for the last 4 years he is teaching psychiatry in a medical college of Bangladesh as the youngest Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the country. But still he is just the same lower middle class family man with a huge interest for human mind. The world, that knows Samir as a young successful researcher, is determined to remain the same for the rest of his life with his research and education marching onwards.


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N.B.: The article was written with the permission from Mohammad Samir Hossain. Information provided here can be varified by contacting him on e-mail address: hmanjur@bttb.net.bd

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