Rehman Sobhan: A public intellectual extraordinaire

Professor Rehman Sobhan turns 86 today. Born in Kolkata into an illustrious family, with connections to the Nawab family of Dhaka from his mother's side and a reputed Murshidabad family from his father's side, Sobhan had no business to be a champion of the poor and the downtrodden. His father was trained at Sandhurst and held a senior post at the Police Department in Kolkata,