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Self- History Of Humayun Azad
Azad was awarded the Bangla Academy Award in 1986 for his contributions to the Bengali linguistics. In 2012, the Government of Bangladesh honored him with Ekushey Padak posthumously.
Azad was born in the village of Rarhikhal in Bikrampur, Munshiganj district on 28 April 1947. He earned BA degree in Bengali language and literature from University of Dhaka. He obtained his PhD in linguistics from the University of Edinburgh in 1976. He later served as a faculty member of the department of Bengali language and literature at the University of Dhaka. His early career produced works on Bengali linguistics, notably syntax. He is regarded as a leading linguist of the Bengali language.
Towards the end of the 1980s, he started to write newspaper column focusing on contemporary socio-political issues. His commentaries continued throughout the 1990s and were later published as books as they grew in numbers. Through his writings of the 1990s, he established himself as a freethinker and appeared to be an agnostic. In his works, he openly criticised religious extremism, as well as Islam, the major religion in Bangladesh.
In 1992 Azad published the first comprehensive feminist book in Bengali titled Naari (Woman). Largely akin to The Second Sex bySimone de Beauvoir in contents and ideas, Naari received positive reviews as a literary work and earned Azad popularity as an author. In this work Azad painstakingly compiled the feminist ideas of the West that underlie the feminist contributions of the subcontinent's socio-political reformers and drew attention to the anti-women attitude of some acclaimed Bengali writers includingRabindranath Tagore. The work, critical of the patriarchal and male-chauvinistic attitude of religion towards women, attracted negative reaction from the conservatives. The Government of Bangladesh banned the book in 1995. The ban was eventually lifted in 2000, following a legal battle that Azad won in the High Court of the country.
Azad had been fearing for his life ever since excerpts of his new novel, Pak Sar Jamin Sad Bad (Pakistan's national anthem; Blessed be the Sacred Land) was first published inThe Daily Ittefaq's Eid supplement in 2003. In that write-up, he tried to expose the politics and ideology of Islamic fundamentalists of Bangladesh. After that book had been published, he started receiving various threats from the fundamentalists. In an email to Mukto-mona, an independent website, where he was then a member, Azad wrote:
On 27 February 2004, he became the victim of a vicious assassination attempt by assailants near the campus of the University of Dhaka during the annual Bangla Academy book fair. A week prior to Azad's assault, Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, one of the renowned religious leaders of Bangladesh demanded, in the parliament, that Azad's political satirePak Sar Jamin Sad Bad would be banned and demanded the introduction of the Blasphemy Act on the author.
In 2006, the commander of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) admitted to the RAB interrogators that his operatives carried out the attack on writer Azad, as well as two other murders, bomb blasts, and attacks on cinemas.
On 12 August 2004, Azad was found dead in his apartment in Munich, Germany, where he had arrived a week earlier to conduct research on the nineteenth century German romantic poet Heinrich Heine, several months after the Islamists' machete attack on him at a book fair, which had left him grievously injured.[7] His family demanded an investigation, alleging that the extremists who had attempted the earlier assassination had a role in this death. He was buried in Rarhikhal, his village home in Bangladesh.
Azad has received numerous awards; mainly for his all literature works.
- Bangla Academy Award (1986)
- Ekushey Padak (2012)
Personal Life Of A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury
He is also a noted physician, and former cultural activist, an author, essayist, playwright, television presenter and an orator of distinction. He was awarded the National Television Award in 1976.
Chowdhury was born in his maternal grandfather's house in Comilla. His paternal ancestors were from Majidpur Dayhata, Srinagar, Bikrampur (now Munshiganj District). He passed his SSC from St Gregory's School in 1947 and HSC from Dhaka College in 1949. He earned his MBBS degree from Dhaka Medical College in 1954–1955. His father Kafiluddin Chowdhury was a political leader of Awami League, a former general secretary of the United Front serving as Minister in the United Front provincial cabinet of the then East Pakistan. His mother is Sufia Khatun.
Chowdhury started his career in the medical profession. He served as an Associate Professor of Medicine in Rajshahi Medical College in 1964 and Sir Salimullah Medical College during 1964–1970 and Professor of Medicine in Sylhet Medical College in 1970. He served as the President of National Anti-Tuberculosis Association of Bangladesh (NATAB), President of International Union Against Tuberculosis of Lung Diseases (IUATLD) of Asia Pacific Zone.
Being inspired by Ziaur Rahman, the founder chairman of the party, Badruddoza entered into politics as the Secretary General of BNP during its early years. He won the parliament election of 1979 as a BNP nominee from Munshiganj and served as cabinet minister during the years 1979–1982. When the BNP again won parliamentary elections in 1991, after a short stint as Education and Cultural Affairs Minister, he was appointed Deputy Leader of the House of Bangladesh parliament.
Presidency
Chowdhury was appointed the foreign minister of Bangladesh when BNP party came to power in 2001. In November 2001, he was elected the President of Bangladesh by Jatiyo Sangshad members. Seven months later the incident of him deciding not to visit BNP founder Ziaur Rahman's grave on his death anniversary provoked the party members.They accused him of betraying the party. In June 2002 Chowdhury resigned from office as was asked by the ruling party before the situation could turn any murkier.
Chowdhury felt the need of a third force in the de facto two-party democracy in Bangladesh. He expressed recruiting civil society members in politics to fight corruption and terrorism and establish good governance in the country through an alternate stream (lit. Bikalpa Dhara) political party.He, along with his son Mahi B. Chowdhury and BNP parliamentarian M A Mannan resigned from BNP to work for the new political party. Chowdhury was the President, with M A Mannan as the secretary-general of the new party,Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh, formed in March 2004. It had been a strong critic of the government during the time, and most of its members were defects from the ruling BNP.
For a brief period B. Chy. joined hands with senior statesman Dr. Col. Oli Ahmed Bir Bikram. Along with various senior Ministers from BNP cabinet they formed LDP - Liberal Democratic Party Bangladesh. This did not last and B. Chy. decided to come out of LDP & concentrate his efforts on reviving Bikalpa Dhara.
He has been the party's President since its inception, except for a brief period between December 2008 and April 2009, during which time he had resigned from his post after the party could secure no seats during the 9th parliament elections.
Chowdhury is married to Hasina Warda Chowdhury. Together they have a son, Mahi B. Chowdhury. Chowdhury resides in Baridhara neighbourhood in Dhaka.
Sadeque Hossain Khoka Life History
Sadeque Hossain Khoka (born May 12, 1952) is a Bangladeshi politician. He served as the 2nd mayor of Dhaka City Corporation during 2002 to 2011. He was the vice chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
Early life and career
Khoka was born in a Muslim family. His father was an engineer and a social worker. Khoka attended Dhaka University and completed M.A. in Psychology. In 1971 at the age of 19 he fought in the Bangladesh Liberation War. After independence, he worked in organizing soccer, ultimately rising to the positions of General Secretary of the Dhaka Metropolitan Football Association and Joint General Secretary of the Bangladesh Football Federation. Khoka is the key person of the football club Brothers Union.
Khoka was first elected to the Jatiyo Sangshad (national legislature) in 1991. In the same year he was made State Minister of Youth and Sports. Khoka also has won from his constituency in elections in 1996 and 2001. After Bangladesh Nationalist Party's victory in 2001, Khoka was made Cabinet Minister of Fisheries and Livestock. Being in the office, he fought the Dhaka City Corporation election for mayorship and won. He took office as the Mayor of Dhaka on April 25, 2002. He served as both Minister and Mayor till 2004 when he resigned from the ministry.
Khoka resigned from the mayoral duties of Dhaka on November 29, 2011, when the government passed a bill in parliament to split DCC (Dhaka City Corporation) into two parts and renamed them DCC North and DCC South.
Khoka is married to Ismat Ara and has two sons and a daughter. His son Ishfaque Hossain is now a Bachelor level student from University of Hertfordshire. His daughter Sarika Sadeque is married to Ahmed Iftekhar, Son of Ahmad Nazir, Ex Parliament Member. Both of them pursued MBA degree from University of Durham.
Film Director And Producer Chashi Nazrul Islam Self-History
After he got laid off from that job, he started to perform on radio programs in 1965. He directed and voiced popular radio dramas like Ramer Sumoti (1965), Socrates (1966), and Sokhina Birongona (1974). Chashi started his career in visual media in 1964 when he had the opportunity to work on television program through audition. He worked as assistant director on the film Dui Digonto, directed by Obaidur Rahman. Later he assisted Fateh Lohani.
He participated in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. After Bangladesh achieved independence, he made the first film on the subject of the liberation war, Ora Egaro Jon. His last movies were Antaranga Released in 2015 & Bhul jodi Hoi 2015, where he Launched Alisha Pradhan in Dhallywood but ironically he could be part of the release.
| Year | Award Title | Category | Film |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Bachsas Awards | Life Time Achievement | |
| 2005 | International Kalakar Award | Best Director | – |
| 2005 | BCRA Award | Best Director | – |
| 2004 | Ekushey Padak | Best Director | - |
| 2003 | Binodan Bichitra Award | Best Director | – |
| 2003 | Indo-Bangla Kala Music Award | Zahir Raihan Lifetime Achievement Award | - |
| 2003 | Trab Award | – | |
| 2003 | Genesis Nazrul Honorary Award | – | |
| 2003 | CJFB Award | Best Director | – |
| 1997 | National Film Awards | Best Director | Hangor Nodi Grenade |
| 1997 | Tarokalok Award | - | |
| 1995 | Bangladesh Social Welfare Award | ||
| 1995 | Zahir Raihan Gold Medal | ||
| 1995 | Jagadish Chandra Basu Gold Medal | ||
| 1989 | Bangladesh Film Critics Award | Best Director | Biraha Byatha |
| 1989 | Cine Directorial Social Welfare Award | ||
| 1989 | Bangladesh National Youth Organisation Federation Award | ||
| 1988 | Sher-e-Bangla Memorial Award | ||
| 1987 | National Film Awards | Best Director | Shuvoda |
| 1985 | Cine Directorial Associates | ||
| 1974 | Bachsas Awards | Best Director | Songram |
At 73 Islam died of liver cancer at the Labaid Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh on January 11, 2015.
Novelist Imdadul Haq Milon History
(Bengali: ইমদাদুল হক মিলন; born 8 September 1955) is a Bangladeshi novelist and editor of the daily Kaler Kantho.
Born in Bikrampur, Milon spent his childhood with his maternal grandmother. He then moved to Gendaria in Dhaka. He wrote his first story Bondhu in 1973. Bangla Academy's Uttaradhikar magazine published his first novel Jabojjibon. Milon graduated from Jagannath University.
Milon authored books on classic stories, historical writings, romantic stories and other genres. He also works as a TV personality in a talk show called Ki Kotha Tahar Sone.
As of February 2013, he has published over 150 books.
- Desh Vager Por (After the division of the country)
- Neta Je Rate Nihoto Holen (The night the leader was assassinated)
- Kalo Ghora (The Black Horse)
- Gherao
- Jabojjibon (Lifelong, written in 1976, published in 1990)
- Nodi Upakhyan (The Story of River, 1985)
- Bhumiputro (A Son of the Soil, 1985)
- Kalakal (Proper or Improper Time, 985)
- Poradhinota (Subgugation, 1985)
- Rupnagor (A Place of Love, 1988)
- Rajakartontro (Time of the Collaborators, 1990)
- Noorjahan-1
- Noorjahan-2
- O Radha O Krisna (O Radha! O Krisna!) in 1977 (published in 1982)
- Duhkho Kasto (Pains and Sufferings) in 1978 (published in 1982)
- Uponayok (The Second Hero) in 1979 (published in 1990)
Self-History Of Brojen Das
Brojen Das (9 December 1927 – 1 June 1998) was a Bengali swimmer, who was the first Asian to swim across the English Channel, and the first person to cross it four times.
Since boyhood Brojen practiced swimming in Buriganga River. After his own initiative, the East Pakistan Sports Federation introduced an annual swimming competition in Dhaka in 1953. He was invited to take part in the English Channel Swimming Competition in 1958. As a part of his training he swam in Shitalakshya River, in lower Meghna River and a distance of 46 miles starting from Narayanganj to Chandpur. Prior to the competition, he also swam in the Mediterranean Sea from Capri to Naples.
At midnight on 18 August 1958, Brojen began swimming to cross the English Channel along with other competitors from 23 countries. He completed the course on the next day after noon.
Brojen crossed the English Channel a total of 6 times from 1958 to 1961.
- Champion in 100 meter freestyle swimming competition in West Bengal in 1952.
- Champion in East Pakistan in 100, 200, 400 & 1500 meter freestyle swimming in 1953-1956.
- Champion in Pakistan in 100 & 400 meter freestyle swimming in 1955.
- Member of the Pakistan swimming team in 1956 Summer Olympic Games.
- Italy, July 1958, winner (placed 3rd) in the Capri Island to Naples 33-kilometer-long distance swimming competition.
- England, August 1958, secured first position among the male competitors in the Billy Butlin’s Channel Crossing Swimming Competition; 39 competitors from 23 nations participated in the competition.
- England, August 1959, successfully completed the Channel Crossing Swimming Competition from France to England.
- England, September 1959, successfully completed the Channel Swim from England to France.
- England, August 1960, successfully completed the Channel Swim from France to England.
- England, September 1961, crossed the Channel once again from France to England.
- England, September 1961, obtained the world record for the fastest swim across the English Channel from France to England.
- 1956: Awarded by Dhaka University
- 1960: Pride of Performance award by the Pakistan government.
- 1965: Induction into the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame
- 1986: Letona Trophy, i.e. King of the Channel from the Channel Swimming Association of the United Kingdom
- 1976: National Sports Award, Bangladesh
- Atish Dipankar Medal
- Gold Medal by Kazi Mahabubullah Trust and Jahanara Jana Kalyan Trust
- 1999: Independence Day Award, Bangladesh (posthumous)
Brojen was detected to have cancer in June 1997. He died on 1 June 1998 in a clinic in Kolkata. His funeral was held at Postagola cremation site in Dhaka on 3 June 1998.
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