Dhaka, Dec 23 (bdnews24.com)—Language Movement veteran and poet Mahbub Ul Alam Choudhury died from old-age complications, his family and doctors said Sunday. He was 81.
Choudhury died at the United Hospital in Gulshan at 2.30pm Sunday.
Choudhury's poems embodied the spirits of the Bangalee nation and added momentum to the 1952 Language Movement.
Customer relations supervisor of the United Hospital Kazi M Rahman told bdnews24.com: "Mahbub Ul Alam Choudhury was admitted to the hospital on Dec 20 with chest pain complaints."
He was kept in the coronary care unit. Dr Kaiser Nasirullah Khan pronounced him dead Sunday.
Rahman said the body was handed over to Choudhury's relatives at 3.45pm.
Choudhury was born in Gohira village of Raozan upazila in Chittagong on Nov 7, 1927.
He was a frontline leader and organiser of democratic and cultural movements in the 1940s.
He was the editor-in-chief of Dainik Swadhinata published from Chittagong from 1972 to 1982.
Bangla Academy awarded him a fellowship in 1985 in recognition of his work in the literary arena.
The then Pakistan government banned
Kadte Aashini,
one of his poems, which he wrote after the gunfire on the procession of students and other people on Feb 21, 1952.
The government had arrested Choudhury.
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