Shahid Qadri’s body to reach Dhaka on Wednesday morning

The mortal remains of celebrated Bangladeshi poet Shahid Qadri is on way to Dhaka.

A flight of Emirates Airlines carrying the body took off at 9pm on Monday from JFK International Airport, New York.
 
The flight is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on Wednesday morning via Dubai.
 
Consul General of Bangladesh in New York Shameem Ahsan, Deputy Consul General Shahed Ahmed were present at the airport.
 
Writer-Journalist Hasan Ferdous, Communist Activist Ranu Ferdous, Udichi USA General Secretary Jibon Biswas and Film Maker Kabir Anwar were also present there during the departure.
 
Neela Qadri, wife of the late poet, bid a teary farewell to the poet. Touching his body laid inside the coffin, Neela said: “Good bye, good bye Shahid.”
 
Neela and their son Adnan Qadri are coming to Dhaka in another flight.
 
The dead body will be taken to Central Shaheed Minar premises after landing, said Sammilita Sangskritik Jote President Golam Quddus.
 
Political and cultural activists and people from all walks of life will pay their last respects to the poet there.
 
He will be laid to rest at Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals Graveyard.
 
Qadri, one of the leading contemporary Bengali poets, died at the age of 74 at North Shore University Hospital.
 
He was suffering from kidney complications for more than a decade and had been on a wheel chair for the last five years.
 
One of the prominent poets of post-1947 Bengal literary world, Shahid Qadri brought in fresh air by introducing urbanism and a sense of modernity in the use of  diction inspired by urban lifestyle.
 
He received the Ekushey Padak for his contribution to language and literature in 2011.
 
Famous for books such as Uttaradhikar (Inheritance), Tomake Obhibadon Priyatama (Salute to You, Dearest), Prem Biraha Bhalobasar Kabita (Poems of Love and Separation), Kothao Kono Krondon Nei  (Weepings Nowhere), Amar Chumbangullo Pouchhiye Dio (Please, Convey My Kisses), Qadri left Bangladesh in 1978.