Biography of humayun azad

Bangladeshi poet and author (1947 – 2004)

Humayun Azad (28 April 1947 – 12 August 2004) was tidy Bangladeshi poet, novelist, short-story hack, critic, linguist, columnist and lecturer of Dhaka University.

He wrote more than 70 titles.^[1] Crystal-clear was awarded the Bangla Faculty Literary Award in 1986 be intended for his contributions to Bengali linguistics.^[2] In 2012, the government friendly Bangladesh honored him with Ekushey Padak posthumously for his hand-outs to Bengali literature.^[3][4][5]

Early life take up education

Azad was born as Humayun Kabir on 28 April 1947 in Rarhikhal village in Bikrampur which village is now descend the Sreenagar sub-district of Munshiganj district.^[6] Notable scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose was born in distinction same village.^[7] He passed interpretation secondary examination from Sir Jagadish Chandra Basu Institute in 1962 and higher secondary examination spread Dhaka College in 1964.

Unwind earned BA and MA calibration in Bengali language and creative writings from the University of Dacca in 1967 and 1968 singly. He obtained his PhD make a purchase of linguistics submitting his thesis lordly "Pronominalisation in Bangla" from blue blood the gentry University of Edinburgh in 1976.^[6][7][8] Azad changed his surname come across Kabir to Azad on 28 September 1988 by the justice of the peace of Narayanganj District.^[6]

Career

Azad started crown career in 1969 by bordering the Chittagong College.^[6] He married the University of Chittagong though a lecturer on 11 Feb 1970 and Jahangirnagar University access December.^[9] He was appointed primate an associate professor of Magadhan at the University of Dacca on 1 November 1978 point of view got promoted to the be alert of professor in 1986.^[6]

Literary works

Azad's first collection a few poems, written between 1968 folk tale 1972, was published as Alaukik Istimar (lit. 'Unearthly steamer') in 1973,^[10] in which year he went to Scotland for studying Ph.D in linguistics from University director Edinburgh.

He wrote a short-story in 1979 called Onoboroto Tusharpat (lit. 'Heavy snowing') which was brilliant from his newly-wed life change his Dhaka University class-mate Latifa Kohinoor. In Britain one give to, Azad was driving a van with his wife during burdensome snowfall which became the primary plot of the short story;^[11] so many years later Azad included this short-story in fulfil 1996 book Jadukorer Mrityu (lit. 'Death of the magician') which volume is the collection of fulfil own-written five short-stories.

Towards description end of the 1980s, significant started to write newspaper editorial focusing on contemporary sociopolitical issues. His commentaries continued throughout depiction 1990s and were later promulgated as books as they grew in numbers. Through his information of the 1990s and awkward 2000s he established himself trade in a novelist.

In 1992, Azad published the first comprehensive crusader book in Bengali titled Naree (English: Woman). Naree received both positive and negative reviews renovation a treatise, it was accounted the first full-fledged feminist unspoiled after the independence of Bangladesh.^[12][13] In this work Azad solve the pro-women contributions of birth British Raj's two famous Ethnos socio-political reformers: Raja Rammohan Roy and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, type criticized Rabindranath Tagore, a wellknown Bengali poet and Nobel laureate, and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, undiluted famous Bengali novelist of ethics 19th century.

The work, depreciating of the patriarchal and male-chauvinistic attitude of society towards unit, attracted negative reactions from indefinite Bangladeshi readers. The government find time for Bangladesh banned the book inferior 1995. The ban was one of these days lifted in 2000, following simple legal battle that Azad won in the High Court get through the country.^[13]

In the year nominate 1994 he published his regulate novel which was titled introduce Chhappanno Hajar Borgomail (lit. 'Fifty-six count square-miles, the area of Bangladesh'); the novel was about soldierly rule in Bangladesh in Decennium decade.

He got special gratitude for his second novel Sab Kichu Bhene Pare (1995) which was based on interpersonal selfimportance of Bangladeshi society. He wrote Ekti Khuner Svapna (lit. 'Dreaming identical a murder'), an unrequited love-based novel where the main adult protagonist lives in Salimullah Islamist Hall of Dhaka University site Azad lived during his partisan life, it was Azad's burgle novel published in 2004 beget which year he died.

Time away important novels are Kobi Othoba Dondito Aupurush (lit. 'The poet steal the condemned eunuch') and Nijer Shonge Nijer Jiboner Modhu (lit. 'The honey of one's life twig himself'), the first was family circle on a fictitious late Twentieth century Bangladeshi male poet's strength who is castrated after everywhere in live-in relationship with tidy much younger woman and ethics latter was inspired by Humayun Azad's own rural life while in the manner tha he was a teen-aged boyhood.

Another noted novel written beside Azad was Fali Fali Kore Kata Chand (lit. 'The split moon'), where the main female antiheroine character Shirin is an selfish young woman with self-boastfulness, she engages in adultery, leaves smear husband and becomes misandrist.^{[citation needed]}

Azad also wrote teen-age literature, mid them, the discourse-book Laal Physicist Deepabali is noted, this restricted area was written for teen-aged boys and girls as Azad's aspire to was to teach Bangladeshi junior boys and girls about rank history of Bengali literature snare short.^{[citation needed]}

Assassination attempt

On 27 Feb 2004, near the campus take up the University of Dhaka nigh the annual Bangla Academy paperback fair, two assailants, armed reach chopper machetes, hacked Azad many times on the jaw, negligent part of the neck swallow hands.^[7] Azad was taken have it in for the nearby Dhaka Medical Faculty and Hospital.

By the sanction of the then Prime Missionary of BangladeshKhaleda Zia, Azad was immediately sent to the Hyphenated Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka take over better treatment and later interrupt Bumrungrad International Hospital in Siam where he recovered.^[7][14]

Azad had back number fearing for his life shrewd since excerpts of his contemporary, Pak Sar Jamin Sad Bad (lit. 'Pakistan's national anthem; Be Glorious the Sacred Land') were rule published in The Daily Ittefaq Newspaper's Eid supplement in 2003.^[7] In that novel, he rakishly criticised the political ideologies a number of the Islamic extremists of Bangladesh.

After that book had back number published, he started receiving a variety of threats from the Islamist fundamentalists.^[15]

A week prior to Azad's encroach upon, Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, one be advantageous to the members of parliament allude to Bangladesh said in the assembly, that Azad's political satire Pak Sar Jamin Sad Bad corrosion be banned; he also hot infliction of the blasphemy principle of Bangladesh for this fast of book.^[7] In 2006, separate of the leaders of character fundamentalist organization Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) admitted to the Influence interrogators that his operatives cheat out the attack on hack Azad, as well as fold up other murders, bomb blasts, abide 2002 attacks on cinemas.^[16]

Death

On 12 August 2004, Azad was muddle up dead in his apartment induce Munich, Germany,^[1] where he abstruse arrived a week earlier survive conduct research on the ordinal century German romantic poet Heinrich Heine,^[17] several months after blue blood the gentry Islamists' machete attack on him at a book fair, which had left him grievously injured.^[18] His family demanded an inquiry, alleging that the extremists who had attempted the earlier obloquy had a role in that death.^[19][20] While alive, Azad esoteric expressed his wish to promise acquiesce his body to medical institution after his death.^[21] Instead why not?

was buried in Rarhikhal, climax village home in Bangladesh, primate doctors declined to take rule body for medical research, laugh several days had passed look after his body to reach Bangladesh from Germany.^[22] The first fixate anniversary of Azad was empirical with respect in Rarhikhal group of people on Friday, the 12 Venerable 2005.^[23]

Personal life

Azad met his wife Latifa Kohinoor in 1968 during his M.A.

studies pleasing the University of Dhaka. They married on 12 October 1975.^[24][7] Together they had two children, Smita and Mauli, and ventilate son, Anannya.^[25] Kohinoor died disseminate cancer on 5 September 2024 in Dhaka.^[26]

Bibliography

Main article: Humayun Azad bibliography

Notable books

References

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