Masud Choudhury was the younger brother of Pakistan League founder, Ibrahim Chowdry. Alaudin Ullah and I interviewed Chacha Masud three times in the years before he died. Alaudin had grown up with Chacha Masud as a central figure in his life – he had been Alaudin’s father Habib’s best friend. In our interviews, Chacha Masud opened up about aspects of his past that he had kept hidden for years. In the early 1940s, when he was 14, Chacha Masud had run away from home. He joined the British army, was part of an Indian regiment that was captured by the Japanese in Singapore during the second world war, then, from his POW camp, joined Subas Chandra Bose’s revolutionary anti-British Indian National Army. After the INA was defeated and the British were putting its members on trial in Delhi in 1946, Chacha Masud escaped via the merchant marine, eventually making his way as a ship worker to New York City, where he jumped ship and joined his brother Ibrahim. It took a little while for Chacha Masud to open up about all this on camera, because, as it turned out, he was afraid, in those days of George W. Bush’s presidency, that if people found out about his past, he might be deported. When he did start speaking about his days as a young anti-colonial revolutionary, though, he admitted that these years, as hard as they were, were some of the happiest in his life.