Matlabganj J. B. High School

[1] Residents and humanitarians, the late Jagabandhu Saha and the late Biswanath Ghosh, from the Saha Para (community) on the south-east corner of the old campus and the Ghosh Para (community) on the south-west corner respectively, founded the institute in 1917[2] and therefore the letters J and B in the name of the institute.

The achievements of the high school at that time is a story of hope, in view of what Matlab was then — a rural area inhabited mostly by peasants, fishermen, and small business owners, all tormented by wild monkeys and snakes, and plagued by cholera and typhoid.

[3] Dr A Matin Patwari, an MJBHS alumnus secured first position in East Pakistan Board Examinations in 1950.

[5] As I was finishing the St. George Marathon (STGM) on 1 October 2016... Matlab School and five of its luminaries... the faces of the five... four from a peaceful place up somewhere in the galaxy and one from Gulshan, Dhaka, surfaced...

Walking back to the car in a St. George parking lot, I studied the STGM medal around my neck.

Violence or communal riot instigated by rogue politicians or religious zealots did not occur in Matlab since I can remember.

Visiting Matlab in 2015 amid politically-instigated petrol bomb attacks on the innocents in the country, I asked a rickshaw puller about the situation there.

Matlab Model of Success, built on nine pillars, produced outstanding results in a resource-restricted village in the nineteen-fifties and the sixties.