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Kabir Chowdhury

Born

in Brahmanbaria (Bengal Presidency, British India), Bangladesh

February 09, 1923

Died

December 13, 2011

Genre

Translation, Nonfiction

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Kabir Chowdhury (Bangla: কবীর চৌধুরী) was a well-known academic, essayist, materialist, translator, cultural worker, civil society activist and a pioneer in the movement against fundamentalism in Bangladesh. He's the brother of Munier Choudhury.

Kabir grew up in an atmosphere of liberal ideas and secular thinking. When he studied English literature in Dhaka University in the early 1940s he was greatly impressed by the writings of H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell, among others. During the second World War he was deeply troubled by the Nazi atrocities carried out in their concentration camps, the mass killing of Jews as a plan of ethnic cleansing and the destruction of all democratic norms. Kabir’s faith in democracy, secul Kabir Chowdhury (Bangla: কবীর চৌধুরী) was a well-known academic, essayist, materialist, translator, cultural worker, civil society activist and a pioneer in the movement against fundamentalism in Bangladesh. He's the brother of Munier Choudhury.

Kabir grew up in an atmosphere of liberal ideas and secular thinking. When he studied English literature in Dhaka University in the early 1940s he was greatly impressed by the writings of H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell, among others. During the second World War he was deeply troubled by the Nazi atrocities carried out in their concentration camps, the mass killing of Jews as a plan of ethnic cleansing and the destruction of all democratic norms. Kabir’s faith in democracy, secularism and liberal thoughts grew stronger by the day and he found himself drawn to socialist ideology.

He has written extensively on world’s famous writers and painters. He has also written extensively on peace and conflict resolution through discussion and has tried to promote these values by his work as a teacher and as an administrator. He was inducted as National Professor of Bangladesh in 1998. He was the chairman of the Advisory Council of Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee (Committee for Resisting the Killers and Collaborators of 1971). In all the above capacities he has significantly contributed to the dissemination of secular ideas and democratic values. His ideology is materialism. He has written extensively on anti-fundamentalism, religious fanaticism and communalism, and has stressed the need for developing broad human values and for realizing the importance of cultural diversity, and the imperatives for developing a pluralistic society. Professor Chowdhury played a leading role in many movements in Bangladesh, especially in the anti-communal movement, movement to establish democracy, and significantly in the movement to ensure the trial of those who had committed crimes against humanity and war crimes during the War of Liberation of Bangladesh in 1971.

For his contribution to education, literature and civil society movements, Kabir Chowdhury was nationally and internationally honored with Swadhinata Dibosh Padak (1997), Ekushey Padak (1991), Bangla Academy Award (1973), Tagore Peace Award (India). ...more

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	প্রাচীন গ্রিসের বীর কাহিনী 3.44 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	সাহিত্য-কোষ 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	আমার ছোটবেলা 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	গয়্যা 2.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	পল সেজান ও অঁরি মাতিস 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	বঙ্গবন্ধু: জননায়ক থেকে রাষ্ট্রনায়ক 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Why boast of your caste or religious community? What does it do for you in this world or in the next? Sometimes I feel like shoving into its mouth a burning faggot. For nothing I bore this cross all my life. Turning into an honorable man, I clearly saw all the trickery that lay behind the glossy of high position and noble birth.”
― Kabir Chowdhury

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