Kabir Chowdhury
| Kabir Chowdhury কবীর চৌধুরী |
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| Born | Abul Kalam Mohammad Kabir Manik 9 February 1923 Brahmanbaria, British Raj (now Bangladesh) |
| Died | 13 December 2011 (aged 88) Naya Paltan, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Occupation | educationist, writer, translator |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Alma mater |
University of Southern California University of Minnesota Dhaka University |
| Genre | essay, translation, literary criticism |
| Notable awards |
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| Spouse | Meher Kabir |
| Relatives |
Munier Chowdhury (brother) Ferdousi Mazumder (sister) |
Kabir Chowdhury (Bengali: কবীর চৌধুরী; 9 February 1923 – 13 December 2011) was a well-known academic, essayist, materialist, translator, cultural worker, civil society activist and a pioneer in the movement against fundamentalism in Bangladesh.
Kabir Chowdhury was born in Brahmanbaria of the then Tipperah district of United Bengal where his father was working as a civil servant. He grew up in an atmosphere of liberal ideas and secular thinking. His family hailed from Chatkhile of Noakhali district of Bangladesh and his father was a devout Muslim free from any trace of religious fanaticism. Kabir's many close friends in school belonged to the Hindu community. When he studied English literature at the 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.
Educated at the universities of Dhaka, Minnesota and Southern California, Kabir Chowdhury worked for over half a century in the fields of education, peace and inter-cultural understanding in several national and international organisations like Afro-Asian Writers Union, Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Organization, International Theatre Institute, UNESCO National Commission and Bangladesh Chapter of the World's Peace Council.
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