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Shahed Ali

Died in 2001

Shahed Ali was born in May 1925 in the village of Mahmudpur, in Tahirpur sub-district, Sunamganj district. A graduate of Murari Chand College in Sylhet in 1947, he received in 1950 a master's degree in Bengali from the University of Dhaka. Involved in the 1952 struggle for Bengali and one of the founders of the Tamaddun Majlish, he was a teacher, journalist, magazine editor and translator, and defended an open Muslim thought. He received the Ekushey Padak in 1989 and died in 2001.

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