HUMAYUN AZAD

Humayun Azad was born in 28 April 1947 in Rarhi Khal, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was a prolific Bangladeshi writer, scholar and professor on Bangla at the University of Dhaka. He was well known for his fearless practice of free thinking and open criticism of Islam and Muslims. Professor Humayun Azad published his first comprehensive feminist book in Bengali on the subject of women titled Naari (Bangla for ‘Woman’) in 1992 mostly motivated by the book The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir .Naari became a popular and earned Humayun Azad popularity as feminist author, but the Government of Bangladesh banned Naari in 1995. The ban was eventually lifted in 2000, following a legal battle that Humayun Azad won in the High Court of the country. His book pak Sar Jamin Sad Bad is the first book by a Bangla Muslim that has taken seriously the theme of profanity and irreverence. This novel exposes the hypocrisy and debauchery underlying the so-called Pakistan movement that emerged from the oriental studies and implemented by the British in Indian sub-continent. This book exposes the vile nature of the so-called Maududists who lead the Jamt-e-Islam in Bangladesh and Pakistan. On February 27, 2004, he became the victim of a vicious assassination attempt by assailants near the campus of the University of Dhaka during Bangla Academy book fair for this book. On August 11, 2004, Professor Azad died in his apartment in Munich, Germany, where he had moved just a week prior to conducting research on the nineteenth century German romantic poet Heinrich Heine. His body was brought home and he was laid to eternal rest in Rarhikhal, his rural homeland.

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NARI

                                                                       
























AMAR ABISWASH

                                                                                   
























FALI FALI KORE KATA CHAD

                                                                               























PAK SAR JOMIN SAD BAD

                                                                         























DHARMAUNIBHUTIR UPAKATHA

                                                                                 
























CHAPANNO HAJAR BORGOMILE

                                                                 
























DWITIO LINGO

                                                                             

























LAL NIL DIPABALI BA BANGLA SAHITYER JIBANI

                                                             
























KHOLA CHITI