Murshid Quli Khan was the first Nawab of Bengal.  He was originally born a Hindu as Surya Narayan Mishra. The city of Murshidabad was named after him. He was Nawab of Bengal from 1717 to 1727. Unlike other Islamic rulers, Murshid Quli Khan had only one wife, Nasiri Banu Begum, and no concubines. He had three children, two daughters and one son Aurangzeb appointed him as Dewan and Faujdar of Bengal because he thought highly of Murshid Quli Khan and posted him to Dhaka in 1700.

Next year in sometime between March and June of 2021, about 67 million registered voters will chose 294 representations to the state assembly. Writers Building has been under renovation since 2013. If the renovation is finished by then, then 294 members of state legislative assembly will decide the next occupant of the Chief Minster's chamber in Writer's Building. The chair is currently occupied by a frail but fiestly lady who has never married Mamata Baneerjee.

Writers Building has been witness to power play impacting lives of millions before Independence of India since East India company acquired domination in Bengal province of Mughal India.

One of the great grandsons of Mir Zafar was Iskandar Mirza, who assumed the first Presidency of Pakistan after giving his country a constitution in 1956, full 9 years after Pakistan's Independence. A proud and stout Bengali, he found it  difficult to get along with the Prime Ministers he appointed. Like a musical game of chairs, he changed four Prime Ministers in his Presidency from March of 1956 to October of 1958. His third Prime Minister was Huseyn Suhrawady, an influential Bengali Muslim freedom fighter who also once held Prime Ministership of united Bengal province during Britsh times.