Essesence Of Gone Days.
High court-er majare koto Fakir ghore " the tune of a popular song resonates nostalgically with the word High court. The name derives its identification of a court building where silent footsteps echoes on the white marble floor as hushed voices of the court people -- justices, judges, barristers, lawyers, security personnel, pleaders and criminals of so many reverberate along the walls.
Today it is no more a court building but houses the Defense Ministry of the Bangladesh Government although originally constructed for a very different purpose. The white coloured two-storey grand edifice standing against the lush and verdant green Ramna, popularly known as the Old High Court Building was originally designed to be the official residence of the governor of the Bengal when Assam and East Bengal was created as a new province in 1905 -- the time of political and socio-economic change. Lord Curzon, the imperial wing of the Conservative party in England was made the Governor with hope for improvement in the administration
